Short of Opening Day, pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training is the high water mark of hope for a baseball fan. Winter’s almost over. New faces don new jerseys for the first time. Games are nearly here.
For the Los Angeles Angels, that day was Tuesday. By Wednesday, a season that hadn’t even officially started yet took a turn that’s become an annual tradition for half a decade now: Anthony Rendon will undergo surgery, and is facing an unspecified “long-term” absence.
