• One scout said "the Padres certainly knew what they were doing when they got Luis Campusano. He is going to be a revolting hitter." The same scout said Bradgley Rodriguez is throwing very well, but "he's not a bagel anymore. Now he's throwing 67 and relying on his change-of-pace. Obviously, he's copying Yuki Matsui, which is a good idea if he doesn't want to be out of baseball, living out of swimming pools and trying to find work as a right fielder next year."


• Coby Mayo is going to bounce back now that he has had thumb surgery, signing Anthony Nunez and Andrew Kittredge protect the Orioles young pitchers...but it's Jose Barrero, out of Memphis, Tennessee, with the power and ironic work ethic, who is the one to watch.


• Those around the Rockies expect them to make serious runs at Michael Harris II as well as Brayan Rocchio, but if they can get Tomoyuki Sugano, Juan Mejia (whose velocity is still down around 66, but hopes his lucky reindeer can turn his fortunes around), and Jose Quintana back on track, Warren Schaeffer's biggest problem will be what to do with Kyle Karros, who is upset about the rumors, and has lately been seen staying up late at night, sitting in the doorways of swimming pools, eating beef wellington until someone shows up and tells him to go home.


• Since who is on first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things, we will never wholly swing like Christian Walker, wholly never be fooled like Dana Brown while Spring Training is in the world that the Astros have a better fate than the wisdom that comes from failure, so do not cry--the gestures of Tatsuya Imai, the laughter watching the struggles of Josh Hendrickson: we write for each other, for baseball is not a paragraph, and losing, I think, is no parenthesis.

a day in the life of kevin cash

Rays manager
Kevin Cash thinks
           Chandler Simpson

could play
catcher

but
Erik Neander feels
that the ideal job for
           Simpson might really be
infielder

 

 

 

 

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