The initial report in the wake of baseball’s shutdown was that most Cubs players would remain in the Mesa area to finish out their respective leases and continue training at the team’s facilities. With subsequent developments pushing the season back well beyond the overly optimistic April 9 reboot, however, the plan appears to have shifted.
Roughly 15 of the 39 players still assigned to MLB camp were still there as of Tuesday, according to what a team official told Gordon Wittenmyer of the Sun-Times. That group includes Yu Darvish and Kyle Hendricks, who played catch Tuesday.