Happy Thanksgiving, fellow baseball enthusiasts! As the holiday name suggests, this is a day to be grateful for the good things that have happened and the good things that are still to come. Sports are often a secondary focus on this turkey-filled day, especially this year, but baseball is as much a way of life as it is an interest. It's a companion, there with you every night much of the year. With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us, here is one thing baseball fans of each team can be thankful for this year. Sit back, loosen up your belt, and take a gander as you digest. breakout. and he delivered, throwing 72 innings with a 2.75 ERA and 82 strikeouts. He does it with control, a five-pitch arsenal, and fearle sne s. The nabbed Gallen from the in an easy-to-overlook deadline deal in 2019, and he now looks very much like an impact starter. Arizona had a really bad, really disappointing 2020 season. Their fans can at least be thankful they have a good, young top-of-the-rotation starter in the mix going forward. One of the best cores in baseball. And most core players are signed or under team control long-term too. Jr. is signed through 2026 with club options for 2027 and 2028 Jerick McKinnon Women Jersey . is signed through 2025 with club options for 2026 and 2027. and are under team control through 2024, through 2026. will be a free agent next offseason, but it would be a surprise if the two sides do not work out a contract extension at some point. The are the three-time defending NL East champs and they have the talent in place to reman atop the division a long time. Also, shoutout to winning a postseason series for the first time since 2001 this year. That is definitely something to be thankful for on this day. Finishing in fourth place. Look, it's not easy to come up with things fans should be thankful for right now. They do have catching prospect , the No. 1 pick in the 2019 draft, on the way, and several young players ( , , etc.) took steps forward in 2020. That's something. The fact the O's were not an abject embarra sment on the field this past season is also worth celebrating. They won at least 40 percent of their games for the first time since 2017 and they did not finish in fifth place for the first time since 2016. Baltimore Andrew Thomas Women Jersey is still a long way from contention. At least now you can see things are heading in the right direction. 2020 was only 60 games long.As far as baseball goes, I'm not sure any team had a worse 2020 than the . They started the year by trading away (and ) and finished it watching Betts win a World Series with the . In between, Boston went 24-36, their worst winning percentage since 1965, and their pitching staff had the third-worst ERA (5.58) and the worst WAR (minus-0.2) in baseball. Sixty games was enough. Imagine sitting through 162 games of that team? This season couldn't enough soon enough for the BoSox. Better days are ahead. has figured it out. The first year and a half of Darvish's time with the did not go well. He looked like a big-money free agent bust. But, since the 2019 All-Star break, Darvish has been one of the best pitchers in baseball, pitching to a 2.40 ERA with a ridiculous 211/21 K/BB in 157 2/3 innings. Darvish finished second in the Cy Young voting this year and is every bit the ace the Cubs expected. There's a chance he will be traded as part of the club's cost-cutting this offseason and that would be a bummer. When he's on, Darvish Rashawn Scott Jersey is one of the most watchable pitchers in the sport. The most fun roster in the American League. The made the jump from rebuilder to contender this season -- they qualified for the postseason for the first time since 2008 -- and they're poised for long-term succe s. is a superstar, and are outfield cornerstones, and are key contributors, is an ace, and is an MVP. No team in the Junior Circuit plays with more verve or a more exciting brand of baseball than the ChiSox. They are very good and very fun, which is the best kind of team. Their first Cy Young winner ever. The have been around basically since the dawn of time, yet it wasn't until 2020 that the franchise had its first ever Cy Young winner. Granted, the Cy Young Award has only been around since 1956, but still. Cincinnati was the lone pre-expansion franchise without a Cy Young winner. took home the award thanks to a National League-best 1.73 ERA with 100 strikeouts in 73 innings during the 60-game season. Bauer is a free agent now and it seems unlikely the Reds will win a bidding war to re-sign him, though he did at least give them a historic season. The pitching factory. I don't know how they do it, but Cleveland just keeps cranking out quality starting pitcher after quality starting pitcher. The latest is unanimous Cy Young winner , an unheralded fourth-round pick in 2016. and were also good but not great prospects who have become rotation mainstays. And, of course, this is the organization that turned (a middling prospect) into a two-time Cy Young winner and (a minor trade addition) Avery Williamson Jersey into an impact starter. Cleveland is going to trade away at some point, probably soon, and that stinks. As long as the pitching factory is up and running though, this team will be in contention. Some sneaky-good pitching. It wasn't a good year for the , who are reportedly trying to trade (again) and are planning to cut payroll this winter. That said, Colorado got some sneaky-great work from their rotation. quietly finished third in the National League with 2.8 WAR, was ninth with 2.2 WAR, and wasn't far outside the top 10 with 1.7 WAR. Coors Field guarantees there will always be bumps in the road (see: Freeland's 2019), but this is the best pitching core the Rockies have ever had. That's a reason to be thankful. The right manager at the right time. Look, the sign-stealing stuff will be a black mark on A.J. Hinch for the rest of his career. That's just the way it is, and baseball fans at large won't ever forgive him. In the eyes of MLB, Hinch has served his punishment and is in good standing. And truth be told, he is the perfect manager for his team. He is well-versed in analytics, he relates well with young players, and he has experience leading a rebuilding team through the transition of becoming a contender. The sign-stealing stuff stinks. It really does. Hinch's qualifications as a manager fit Detroit perfectly though. This is the type of manager you want at the helm at this point in a rebuild. The next wave of pitching. The 2020 season could have gone off the rails for the , who lost to Tommy John surgery one start to the season and for an undisclosed reason in summer camp. Rather than crumble, the Astros were kept afloat by and , who propped up the rotation and cemented themselves as key members of the pitching Dalton Schultz Jersey staff going for