Camp breaks in a little more than a week and Matt Kemp is still here, which at one time felt about as likely as the Dodgers reappearing on television or Stan Kasten developing a sense of humility.
Kemp's improbable return to Dodger Stadium in a Dodgers uniform has become entirely conceivable, the 33-year-old crushing baseballs and looking as lean as he did when he was an All-Star.
"I hope so, man," Kemp said. "I don't want to go anywhere else."
Reacquired in an offseason trade with the Atlanta Braves that was basically an accounting trick designed to move the Dodgers under the luxury-tax threshold, Kemp is batting .