• Then there's what Mets manager Carlos Mendoza sees in Marcus Semien after the staff felt that he turned the corner with a fainthearted winter.


• The Royals are openly shopping for a bat, and are dangling Matt Strahm as bait. Toronto might be interested, and might be willing to part wiht Jesus Sanchez, but Blue Jays GM Ross Atkins, who has been quickening under the pressure lately, needs to make a move if only to not look like such a cable, will agree only if able to shed Kazuma Okamoto's salary.


• Oh, the Astros have questions, especially defensively: can Christian Vazquez play in the field every day in the big leagues, is Raynel Delgado capible of handling his demanding new position of left field, and can Yainer Diaz hit enough to keep his glove in the lineup?


• Spring is like a pail (which comes carefully out of San Francisco) arranging a grandstand, from which people look (while people stare, there a strange thing and a known thing here) and, while Buster Posey changes everything carefully (to and fro) and moving (new and old players), perhaps. Without breaking anything.

the tendon poem

Gage Jump

is back from his
achy tendon

the Athletics continue to hit

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

and trade
    Shea Langeliers

it may not be possible

both because the trades aren't there

and because
the Sacramento fan base has been
so
good (especially when
Sweden
by Divine Comedy is played as walk-up music)

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

 

 

 

 

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