GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Baseball is broken.



In this case, it isn’t broken in a way that involves sign-stealers, Codebreakers or trash-can lids. But it’s broken in a way that’s just as troublesome — in some ways maybe more troublesome.



The other story this spring of how baseball is broken can be found in the American heartlands, in the frustrating dilemma of a team from Cleveland, as the Indians ponder the future of one of their sport’s most magnetic stars, 26-year-old shortstop Francisco Lindor, as he enters his final two seasons before free agency.



Ask yourself how it’s possible that all three of these things can be true:



• Lindor made it clear again this week that he would love to spend the rest of his career in Cleveland.



• His team has made it just as clear that it wants him to spend the rest of his career in Cleveland.



• Yet there might not be a single person in baseball...