Pitchers Are Hitting Again, So Injuries Will Follow

The good news is that there will be a baseball season. The pandemic jeopardized and then truncated last year’s schedule. Next year is an open question, because the collective bargaining agreement between the players and the owners expires Dec. 1. But the coronavirus has largely stayed away from spring training camps, and opening day for the 2021 season is nearly here.

“Being cognizant of what it took to navigate the 60-game season last year, and what the protocols were then as well as what they are now, it gave our guys a reference point,” Tony Clark, the executive director of the players’ association, said in an interview Thursday, a week before the April 1 openers. “And they have taken on…