CHICAGO — Depending on which team you root for, this has been the longest or shortest offseason in baseball history.
If your team accomplished everything it set out to do this winter, the wait for spring training may have been relatively easy. If the owner mostly stood still while his peers added on, it probably has been as excruciatingly slow as waiting on a CTA bus during a polar vortex.
But now, with one week remaining until pitchers and catchers report in Arizona and Florida, everyone is on the same page and ready to get this thing going. The start of spring training always brings hope to the hopeless, even when your team’s front office spent the last three months in hibernation.
