The Week Baseball Found Its Joy

Friday MLB Round-Up.

Find somebody who looks at you the way Rob Manfred looks at Shohei Ohtani. (Megan Briggs/Getty)

I have a confession to make. When I began writing newsletters back in February about how excited (and frustrated!) I was about the World Baseball Classic, I worried I’d see a mass exodus of readers.

Up until six days ago, the WBC was regarded with the same enth…