For the first time in 146 days, the San Francisco Giants play a baseball game today. They’ll don black and orange, they’ll take a field together, and they’ll play a game with umpires, scorekeepers, fans, and a result. It’s a beautiful occurrence, if you’re into that sort of thing.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Spring Training doesn’t matter, other than that it matters a lot. It’s a weird thing. It’s a delightful thing.
It’s the outcomes that don’t matter much, and the process that does. There’s not too much you can learn from a slash line or an ERA or a strikeout rate in the Cactus League.