J.J. Hardy can't truly enjoy the game of baseball when his body is letting him down. The last two seasons haven't been much fun at all.
For all of the Orioles' 2014 season, which culminated in an American League Championship Series run and a contract extension for Hardy, he endured near-weekly back spasms when the simple act of tying his shoes sent jolts through his back so painful that he'd wonder how he could play through it.
Last season, it was a torn labrum in his left shoulder that he suffered in spring training.