“[It’s] getting to know these guys, build trust and built relationships…We want them, when they roll into [Spring Training] to know who [bench coach] Mark McGwire is, know who I am, know who [hitting coach] Alan Zinter is, to know our trainers and how things work so they don’t come in the first day saying, ‘Where am I, what do I do?…we are trying to remove as many impediments as possible from their path to being great contributors this year.”
Sounds like an excellent plan. While the camp which just goes through Friday is not open to the public, it is conceivable that many of the players at this camp would be playing full time in San Diego sooner than later.