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Cubs opening spring training with ‘healthy sense of urgency’

John Antonoff / for the Sun-Times

Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner takes infield practice Tuesday at the Cubs’ spring training complex in Mesa, Arizona.

MESA, Ariz. – Cubs pitchers and catchers won’t have their first formal spring training workout until Wednesday, and position players don’t have to report until next week. But on Tuesday morning, infielders trickled onto the complex’s Field 1 for early work.

While pitchers and catchers threw on the nearby agility field, first baseman Michael Busch, second baseman Nico Hoerner, shortstop Dansby Swanson and third basemen Patrick Wisdom, Nick Madrigal and Miles Mastrobuoni went through drills and took ground balls.