Arizona Diamondbacks: Campfire Stories Entertain Spring Campers

This isn’t summer camp. This is Spring camp, and the Arizona Diamondbacks aren’t sitting around a campfire to tell stories. They sit around home plate for that.

The Arizona Diamondbacks have begun spring camp, and anyone who has spent time at a camp knows what to expect: namely, a lot of “get-to-know-you” games. Baseball camp is no different.

One such game, the “campfire drill,” was pitched to manager Torey Lovullo last spring by pitching coach Mike Butcher and quality control coach Robby Hammock. According to MLB.com’s Steve Gilbert, Butcher and Hammock instruct “pitchers to stand in front of home plate in the bullpen area and explain to the catchers sitting in folding chairs around it what…