Maybe the best moment of the baseball season comes on the first two days of spring training, when pitchers begin to throw for the first time. The catchers will crouch and wait, the pitchers will stand on the rubber and wait, and then the coach charged with synchronizing the timed session will glance at his watch and tell them: OK, go ahead. Then fastballs hiss, mitts pop, you watch and really learn nothing, but think about what could be. On the first day of spring training last year, at the Ind ...

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