T-minus three weeks until pitchers and catchers report to Tampa and begin Spring Training. Pitchers and catchers reporting is the biggest non-news days of the year — pitchers and catchers show up to the complex and take their physicals, and that’s pretty much it — but it is the start of the new season, and that’s exciting. We’re only three weeks away. Anyway, here are some scattered thoughts.
1. I don’t have a whole lot to say following the Hall of Fame announcement. I’m stunned and thrilled Mariano Rivera was a unanimous selection. I didn’t think it would happen.