{"id":8714339,"date":"2023-01-12T11:54:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/?p=8714339&preview=true&preview_id=8714339"},"modified":"2023-01-13T04:11:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T12:11:19","slug":"sf-giants-announce-spring-training-report-dates-first-workouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2023\/01\/12\/sf-giants-announce-spring-training-report-dates-first-workouts\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants announce spring training report dates, first workouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not, baseball is barely more than a month away.<\/p>\n

Giants pitchers and catchers will hold their first workout Thursday, Feb. 16, while position players will join for the first full-squad workout to begin the following week, Monday, Feb. 20. Both groups are scheduled to report to camp at the Giants’ facilities in Scottsdale, Arizona, the day before their first workout.<\/p>\n

The club officially announced the dates Thursday, with all but the finishing touches made to their roster. Addressing reporters over Zoom Thursday afternoon, president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said, “we feel really good about it … I understand there\u2019s some skepticism because we had a couple pursuits fall short, but we also did a lot of good work and we think we got better.”<\/p>\n

Fans will get their first look at the club in action when they open Cactus League play Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Cubs. They host their first game at Scottsdale Stadium the following day, at 1:05 p.m. against the Reds. Their Cactus League schedule, which you can find in full here<\/a>, wraps up Saturday, March 25, before they open the regular season at Yankee Stadium on March 30.<\/p>\n

For the first time since 2009, Brandon Belt won’t be in Scottsdale \u2014 or Arizona at all \u2014 after signing with the Blue Jays. Carlos Rod\u00f3n will be training in Florida, too (alongside Aaron Judge), while Evan Longoria will be just a few miles away, in D-backs camp.<\/p>\n