Spring Training Notebook

Arriving in Phoenix when everyone else is packing up

Nobody likes the final weekend of Spring Training. Teams have already played close to 30 games. Players, coaches, support staff, and much of the media have spent the past six weeks away from home, perhaps in sterile corporate housing or, more likely, accruing points in a Marriott property.

The Ohtani-Trout showdown that concluded the WBC earlier this wee…