Here’s betting there won’t be campfire ghost stories, creating crafts to take home to their families or a showdown with the obnoxious bullies from the rival camp across the lake. Summer Camp, the official moniker MLB has slapped on this fire drill of a second spring training will be unlike anything we’ve ever experienced, leading to a season that will be unlike anything we’ve ever experienced.
Baseball has turned into, for a season, an NFL/college football-type sprint, but while the games change from 162 to 60, the questions and storylines remain largely the same as the Starting Nine takes a trip around the diamond with the Braves before they take to Truist Park for Friday’s first day of camp.