Every year, many Angels staffers and players spend spring training at an expansive resort along a golf course near the team’s facilities at Tempe Diablo Stadium.
As his teammates traversed the 2016 regular season, Tyler Skaggs spent six extra weeks there last May and June, marooned at extended spring training because of biceps tendinitis. It was one of several complications in his recovery from elbow ligament replacement surgery.
“I’ll never stay there again,” Skaggs said Wednesday, ahead of the team’s first workout of spring training. “It just brings back bad memories.