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IMPROVE YOUR FANTASY FORECAST

It’s 82 degrees with a healthy breeze as the sun sets behind the third-base line at Coors Field. It is without a doubt a perfect day for baseball in Denver.

At the same time, roughly 500 miles east in Kansas City, Mo., the Royals are still waiting to play a game that was scheduled to start two hours ago. The rain is falling in sheets over the soaked tarp. It’s a bad day for baseball.

Since the 1870s, weather and baseball have been tied together by rainouts, snowouts and coldouts. Games have been played entirely in

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