Maybe I'm all alone out on some isolated island in cyberspace (aren't they all like that out there?), but sometimes it seems like baseball spends so much time trying to get ahead of itself that it never gets caught up. And if that doesn't make any sense to you, maybe you get my point.
Case in point: The Orioles are less than two weeks away from the start of spring training, and for the second, maybe third straight year, we're likely to hear as much about what might happen after the 2018 season as we are about prospects for the coming season.
And the Orioles aren't the only team caught up in the speculation. The Nationals, for one, are another team destined to hear more about future speculation than prognostication about the present.
