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Will Venable was still playing for his original major league club, the Padres, and had seen just about enough of how the team’s spring training was going.
It was a couple of weeks into camp in Peoria, Ariz., and already some players were getting out in the grass late to stretch. Not everyone was showing up to the batting cages on schedule. The Padres had a basketball court, and too many meaningless hoops battles were being contested while other guys were working hard in preparation for the season.