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Spring training starts next week and Jose Quintana is still a White Sox pitcher and Todd Ricketts isn’t the deputy commerce secretary.
May we live in interesting times, as the saying goes.
But next week, reporters will descend on Cubs camp in Mesa, Ariz., where much of the team is already working out, to ask questions that have no answers.
How will the Cubs defend their title?