Is too much eagerness a bad thing? It is if you’re a parent or guardian and Christmas is coming and you have a small child in your household. And it can be for a baseball team too, one that has tasted the World Series twice in the last two years and have yet to win that ring.
There have been a few injuries to start camp, and one can infer that they are from too much eagerness. To get the year going, to prove something to the fan base, the baseball world at large, to the players themselves.