SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The cardboard boxes that appeared in front of players’ lockers this week slowly began to fill with their belongings and on Saturday morning were loaded into equipment trucks, their last stop on their way to San Francisco. There is no surer sign of the end of spring training than the presence of those big box trucks in the parking lot.
The Giants arrived in Scottsdale six weeks ago with questions to answer. As they departed Saturday, their catching situation remained murky as ever, and they carry some injury concerns into Opening Day, but they can head home happy with some of the positive developments of camp.
“I feel good about the depth of our team relative to the last couple years,” manager Gabe Kapler said Saturday morning, a few hours before their Cactus League finale against the Mariners. “I feel like our defense is improved … I feel great about where our starting pitching is. Good depth at Triple-A too. I think we’re in a fine spot overall. … The most important thing to me is when we play any of the teams around the league that it’s an absolute grind to get through us. We feel good about our ability to scratch and claw and fight and make it really challenging for other teams to come to Oracle and when we’re on the road, we want teams to not be especially keen about playing us. I feel like we’re in a position to be able to make that statement.”
