Over the next few weeks there will inevitably be words written about fresh cut grass, birds singing and baseball coming back to life — or something like that. Every year there’s a countdown to Pitchers and Catchers Day that begins the second the previous season ends.
It’s an exciting day to be sure. The season is coming and actual team activities are finally underway this week. But before the season can begin, there is a long March, full of long afternoons of hoping Justin Turner won’t get his wrist broke in a random spring game or trying to put Corey Seager in bubble wrap because we’ve waited so long to see him back in the lineup.