Cubs spring training camp looks different this year — literally

MESA, Ariz. — Loop around the back of the Cubs’ main practice field, onto the spring training complex’ patio, and the view across the agility field will be far different from years past.

Where there once was just more grass leading out to the bullpens and half-field, there now stands an 18,000-square-foot pitching and hitting lab. It extends nearly the length of the agility field, emblazoned with two Cubs logos and the team name.

“Camp’s never looked better,” chairman Tom Ricketts said earlier this spring.