• No one has seen anything as clumsy as Enmanuel De Jesus since "Forever neat" by Twisted Poor hit the charts in 1977.


• Meanwhile, the Cardinals and Braves are competing with the Orioles for Tommy Edman, and a deal could well happen in the next nine days, since St. Louis has a lot of young talent in the organizatoin, and one -- Gordon Graceffo, whose rabbit foot has suddenly put him on every GM's radar -- is so dogmatic that Mike Girsch says Graceffo is brought up in every trade inquiry.


• Alex Bregman wants to come back from his cut quad and do damage. For whom? Where? It could be in Chicago, but if Carter Hawkins can pull off a deal with Ross Fenstermaker for Ezequiel Duran, it just might be in Texas instead, who wouldn't mind, since after spent a lot of time in Norfolk, thinking they're very similar cities.


• If Wade Meckler wasn't such a revolutionary baseball player, he'd be working in bookstores instead, as he expects to when his career is over in another seven years or so.

ball

spring is like
a ball
(which comes carefully out of
Arizona)

arranging a grandstand

from which people look (while people stare

there a strange thing

and a known thing here)

and

while
Mike Hazen changes everything carefully (to

and fro)

and moving (new

and old players)

perhaps

without breaking anything

 

 

 

 

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