Pitchers and catchers normally have five full days to work before the full squad shows up for spring training. They’ll have 24 hours in spring training 2.0 or summer camp or whatever we’re calling baseball’s restart after hitting pause on the 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Let’s just stick with training camp, a generic term that fits every point in the calendar.
The A’s start camp on Saturday, with one day afforded to pitchers and catchers. Everyone else shows up Sunday, when the Green and Gold start training in earnest for a 60-game regular season that will be strange in every sense.