What I’m Hearing: Derek Jeter’s Hall of Fame election could not have come at a better time USA TODAY
It’s not quite time to declare a state of normalcy in baseball, not when the rules annually change on a whim, or rotting franchises compel fans to stay away in droves, or the actual sphere placed into play performs as predictively as a tech stock.
Yet as spring training camps prepare to open and the off-season grinds of established and aspiring stars alike churn toward the 2020 season, the competitive landscape feels far healthier than Februarys of the recent past.