The best part of spring training, which opens for most teams by the end of this week, is the optimism. Every team’s best-case scenario is still in play. Whatever jersey a player wears, he can slip it on with pride and channel his inner Lloyd Christmas, the naïve dreamer from “Dumb and Dumber.”
A million-to-one shot? So you’re telling me there’s a chance!
Get ready for seven weeks of rosy forecasts around the major leagues. Every injury is healing well. Every prospect is the Next Big Thing. Every fading hitter has solved that pesky flaw in his swing.