The summer camp, as dubbed by former FanGraphs writer and current Rays front office member Jeff Sullivan, or second spring training, or whatever you want to call it, starts this week. It’s been a long few months with the players and owners publicly fighting as they were trying to come to a deal for a new season, but now that can temporarily be put behind us — that fight will happen again soon on a bigger scale with the CBA set to expire after the 2021 season — as baseball is set to get started.
The first step of that process was for the transaction freeze the be lifted on Friday, but nothing has really happened on that front to this point.