Members of the Padres front office spent Tuesday night and then all day Wednesday poring over more than 100 pages of material outlining the parameters of a baseball season that will be unlike any before it and, hopefully, any to come.
“I’m lucky there’s a lot of other people breaking it down and giving us CliffsNotes,” manager Jayce Tingler said.
In Major League Baseball’s manual detailing health and safety protocols for this campaign delayed and altered by the COVID-19 pandemic, there are rules upon guidelines upon suggestions upon more rules.
The Padres are still determining how staggered their schedule for workouts will have to be in a three-week camp set to begin July 3, how many players are allowed to do drills at the same time in the same place and even if they can send some of the 60 players they can have in camp to Arizona for a time.