Giants’ Cain eager to face hitters at spring training

Giants’ Cain eager to face hitters at spring training

Position player report Monday, the first full-squad workout is Tuesday and pitchers start throwing full-speed batting practice to the hitters.

Nobody needs that exercise more than Matt Cain, who has spent all winter trying to relocate the command that eluded in 2015 as he attempted to return from bone-chip surgery and a tendon-flexor strain that together kept him off the mound for almost a calendar year.

Cain has had to reprogram a right arm that has more flexibility with the bone chips gone.

Any shot at Cain regaining his old form depends on his ability to spot pitches, a huge issue before and after his surgery.

The hard part is, you sit here and throw throw bullpen after bullpen in January into spring training, the first week or so, and it feels good.

[...] Cain might need to wait for his second live batting practice to get a true gauge.

Randy Johnson got angry at Giants hitters for not swinging during his one spring with the team, in 2009.

Henry Schulman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.