Spring training represents the first organized baseball many people have seen in months, which means that, despite them being non-meaningful games, they’re exciting. More than just seeing baseball, though, it’s also a time for players to practice. Sometimes, that’s to regain feel that may have eluded them since October, but some players use spring training to practice things that they’ve been working on over the offseason in a game-like setting. Oftentimes, these respective changes are rendered inconsequential, but sometimes, they change everything for a player.
When you write about a baseball team, you tend to be pretty cognizant of changes that players from that team make.