It’s been a week.
This is both a factual statement about the length of Major League Baseball’s summer camp, and an accurate phrase to describe the past seven days.
As in, whew, it’s been a week.
And it seems fair to say that if there are too many more weeks like this one, it’s hard to imagine there being too many more weeks of baseball in 2020.
But, here’s the thing. There shouldn’t be more weeks like this one.
Not if baseball can quickly learn from and fix its mistakes.
Not if players and staff members can practice what they have been preaching about treating decisions made away from the ballpark as decisions that could impact what happens — or doesn’t — on the field.