Just a week ago it was not clear that we would be watching baseball again within the next month, never mind within the next week. But, of course, the players and the league finally agreed to a new CBA late last week and players are all reporting to camp with the spring training schedule just about to get underway. The Red Sox play their first game on Thursday against the Twins, the first of 19 games they’ll be playing this spring.
It will be interesting to see how teams approach these games. Clearly, managers are never really going into these games with the chief goal being to win, but rather to get players ready for the grind of a regular season.