Under the belief that even thinking about spring training will fend off the cold, let’s engage in the annual exercise called “30 teams, 30 questions.”
For while each club faces myriad concerns that will not be fully answered until 162 games have been played, there also exist issues that must be sufficiently addressed in camp. In some cases, Plan B’s must be ready to launch on Opening Day if those matters go the wrong way. In others, such a failure to launch will just bode very poorly.
Let’s go in reverse order of last year’s standings since the worst team of 2015 theoretically should face the most angst at the outset and vice versa.