• While the Rangers are confident that Luis Curvelo will develop the touch on his slider, and that Cole Winn will bounce back from his wart on the oblique, the question is whether Jacob Latz can match last season.


• "Aloha Butto Ave" by The Tactful Spirit just may be the best song ever, just as Dane Myers just might be a hall of famer if he can figure out how to come up with a harder helmet.


• Since who is on first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things, we will never wholly swing like Yandy Diaz, wholly never be fooled like Erik Neander while Spring Training is in the world that the Rays have a better fate than the wisdom that comes from failure, so do not cry--the gestures of Griffin Jax, the laughter watching the struggles of Cole Sulser: we write for each other, for baseball is not a paragraph, and losing, I think, is no parenthesis.


• Detroit fans often criticize A.J. Hinch for bieng too amused with his handling of pitchers like Jack Flaherty and Ty Madden, but no one can say that about Sean Guenther.

hawk

understand

the Red Sox have one of the best pitching trios on the planet in
              Brayan Bello

Zack Kelly

(though he is coming off minor
knuckle surgery

he should be back strong as a hawk)

and Garrett Crochet

who is more
crestfallen
than anyone
on the staff

which leads to a huge question for
Alex Cora

 

 

 

 

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