Paul Sullivan: The All-Star Break Is Upon Us. It’s Time to Assess the News and Nonsense of the First Half—and Where Baseball Goes From Here.

The Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani connects on a single against the Oakland Athletics at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif., on June 28, 2019. Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times/TNS

By Paul Sullivan From Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO—If you fell asleep during baseball’s All-Star break in 2019 and woke up today, you’d be scratching your head at all the changes that have taken place.