By SI Staff Aaron Judge’s home run chase and Houston’s second title headlined a baseball season that, for a time, seemed like it might not happen at all. One year ago, we didn’t know when, or if, baseball would be played in 2022. About a month earlier, moments after the collective bargaining agreement expired without a new one in place, the 30 Major League Baseball owners locked out the players and kicked off the first work stoppage in 27 years. We had no idea how long it would last, but we knew it would be ugly. As we rang in the new year, MLB still had not made a new proposal on core economi…