Pitchers and catchers report — today is the day baseball fans circle on their calendar. The reality is that most players are already working out at the spring facilities, but today is the day that pitchers and catchers are officially there and under team control. The romanticism of baseball is difficult to quell as we know that warmer days and nights are ahead and that the game we’ve been waiting for is back.
Spring training can be a dangerous time to judge a player. For a game built on data and large sample sizes, much is put on the performance of 30 games played against all levels of players.