Well it was a long, cold winter, particularly for fans of Major League Baseball. We’re really glad to be back. On top of everything else going on in the world, baseball fans watched their sport bury itself under a mountain of bad public relations and acrimony for three months before the new CBA was finally agreed to in the eleventh—really the twelfth—hour.
After a condensed spring camp that has made it particularly hard to assess players—always extremely difficult under spring training conditions in the first place—teams are finally going to start laying their cards on the table a week from today.