{"id":588161,"date":"2026-02-23T11:31:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/588161\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:31:44","slug":"how-much-of-a-spring-training-game-do-you-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/588161\/","title":{"rendered":"How much of a Spring Training game do you watch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I guess I could\u2019ve worded this, \u201cDo you actually watch Spring Training games,\u201d too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Today marks the start of Grapefruit and Cactus League action. There are a few games against unaffiliated teams, too. But the full slate really begins tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Me, I\u2019ll watch pretty much any MLB baseball. Though the pitch clock made it somewhat harder in some ways, I\u2019m still aiming to watch about three games a day this upcoming season. Spring Training games, though\u2026 they\u2019re too unserious for me to pay real attention to. Not that I begrudge them this, as the point is really just for players to get up to speed \u2014 but it\u2019s just too divorced from what resembles competition to be interesting for me. So I\u2019ll usually turn it on, and lose interest when the re-insertions or full-scale substitutions start happening. I\u2019ll leave \u2018em on in the background, sure, but it\u2019s not appointment viewing time, like the new regular-season-with-pitch-clock is now forced to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I guess I could\u2019ve worded this, \u201cDo you actually watch Spring Training games,\u201d too. Today marks the start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,73299,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-588161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlanta-braves-discussion","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116119727779428278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}