PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Wednesday's weather felt like spring -- and spring means baseball.
That's right. The Mets opened spring training with their first pitchers and catchers workouts.
For more than 100 years, baseball teams have used spring training as a way to knock off the rust from a sedentary off season. For decades, the best players in the game have gone to Florida to begin the annual rite called spring training.
The dawn is breaking. The clouds of the past roll through, giving way to the light of a new spring.