Spring training is a time of excitement in the air with the anticipation of a new baseball season right around the corner. Right? Not so much. Spring training is a time of useless updates, platitudes, and hoping at all costs nobody ends up injured.
Players don’t like how long it is and fans don’t like that it rarely resembles real baseball as players with numbers in the high double digits take up a large share of the playing time. It’s only any fun if you get to go to Sarasota to escape the cold of late winter.
It’s commonly accepted that whatever happens in spring training also does not matter.