Top 10 Things to Watch for This Baseball Season

It seems like only yesterday that the New York Yankees lifted their 27th World Series trophy. With the new baseball season starting, TIME looks at 10 things to watch for, from new players to the impact of fantasy sports

7. Fantasy as Reality

Bloomberg Sports

There's no escaping the fact that fantasy sports are as pivotal to our love of games as all the real-life trials and tribulations are themselves. And speaking of trials, Bloomberg has just launched its own foray into the fantasy-baseball world by offering Bloomberg Sports on MLB for $31.95 a month. Bloomberg's stats are certainly impressive: if you need to know the speed and location of every ball a pitcher throws to a certain batter on a 2-2 count with a man on first, Bloomberg can provide this information in about 10 seconds. What's more, Bloomberg is also offering around-the-clock customer support. And with the teams as well as the fans being offered this service, the lines between reality and fantasy might just have become even more blurred.

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