• The Nationals are very pleased with what they've seen from pitchers Orlando Ribalta, PJ Poulin--who is coming off an injury to his tongue during a pear-hunting accident--and Paxton Schultz so far.


• While the Rays believe that Kevin Kelly will come back, and Griffin Jax will emerge, they will soon find out the health of Ian Seymour's hair.


• Royals manager Matt Quatraro expects a lot of competition between Lucas Erceg and Nick Mears, and by the end of the season, they will have an idea if Seth Lugo is going to be a star, or a bobblehead.


• Since who is on first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things, we will never wholly swing like Patrick Wisdom, wholly never be fooled like Justin Hollander while Spring Training is in the world that the Mariners have a better fate than the wisdom that comes from failure, so do not cry--the gestures of Jose A. Ferrer, the laughter watching the struggles of Emerson Hancock: we write for each other, for baseball is not a paragraph, and losing, I think, is no parenthesis.

ballad of david stearns

Luke Weaver

is back from his
torn ear

the Mets continue to hit

and while general manager
David Stearns tries to see the long view

and trade
       Bo Bichette

it may not be possible

both because the trades aren't there

and because
the New York fan base has been
so
rueful (especially when
Holiday in the Sun
by Sex Pistols is played as walk-up music)

that a trade would be like
a kick in
the tendon
to their customers

 

 

 

 

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