For most teams, pitchers and catchers officially reported to spring training on Monday. It's more of a symbolic thing than anything else; baseball is officially back, even if it is just (some) guys checking into town and maybe soft-tossing. Most teams won't even have a full workout until the end of the week, and actual games won't start until a week after that. But the ball is rolling, and it's rolling pretty quickly because we already have a clubhouse leader in a spring training tradition of sorts: the bizarre spring training injury. This one comes via the Kansas City Royals, and it's a doozy: dude fell through his roof.
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