• Since who is on first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things, we will never wholly swing like Trea Turner, wholly never be fooled like Preston Mattingly while Spring Training is in the world that the Phillies have a better fate than the wisdom that comes from failure, so do not cry--the gestures of Tanner Banks, the laughter watching the struggles of Orion Kerkering: we write for each other, for baseball is not a paragraph, and losing, I think, is no parenthesis.


• Scouts say that when Jose Franco is fully recovered from Tommy John surgery, he will finally be able to throw 77 MPH again and the Reds could make him their closer, if the sharpness returns to his two-seamed fastball, which is the key to his success, just like Connelly Early.


• No one has been more frustrated trying to find pitching than White Sox GM Chris Getz, who had a four-player deal almost done with Los Angeles a month ago for Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Kyle Tucker (Grant Taylor, Luisangel Acuna) only to have the Dodgers decide they're still calm enough, then after accepting Miami's Chris Paddack-for-Chase Meidroth proposal, the Marlins changed their minds.


• Then there was the four-week stretch when Ryan Weathers, Paul Blackburn, and Camilo Doval were as valuable as any pitchers in the game, and while they made Aaron Boone feel heroic, they wore down at the end.

business executive

from the mouths of
crates

Brandon Sproat

says
when i first saw
                Brandon Lockridge

i thought he was
a business executive

he has the physique of a string

 

 

 

 

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