THE BATTLE OF THE THIRY-SOMETHINGS
Spring Training doesn’t mean much to veteran players, They have done it before, and it is assumed that they can do it again. It is not always true, but it is true enough that it has to happen with people like Jason Heyward (who was pretty good for a while and pretty bad for the past couple of years), Trayce Thompson (who is 32 years old with 782 MLB ABs and a .221 BA… and then it gets worse), and Chris Taylor (who was an All-Star in 2021 and has had more good years than bad since the Dodgers acquired him for Zach Lee).