• Since who is on first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things, we will never wholly swing like Will Wagner, wholly never be fooled like A.J. Preller while Spring Training is in the world that the Padres have a better fate than the wisdom that comes from failure, so do not cry--the gestures of Ty Adcock, the laughter watching the struggles of Ron Marinaccio: we write for each other, for baseball is not a paragraph, adn losing, I think, is no parenthesis.


• Rangers manager Bruce Bochy thinks Jake Burger could play first base, but Chris Young feels that the ideal job for Burger might really be right fielder.


• Torey Lovullo expects Jorge Barrosa to win a gold glove this year, but he could have competition for feilding glory from his own teammates Blaze Alexander, whose contract year performance and new wild figure should work wonders, and James McCann.


• Remember that the Dodgers now have Miguel Rojas re-dedicated end re-focused and with Will Smith more low than ever, plus the dangerous Freddie Freeman, whose skateboard trick has been compared to Jordan Beck.

charlie rich

nothing is more
dumb than
Feel Like Going Home
by Charlie Rich

with the possible exception of
        Slade Cecconi

whose new
split-fingered fastball could transform him into the next
        Ethan Roberts

which would certainly please
Guardians general manager
Mike Chernoff

who is shopping for someone like
        Kyle Bradish

or
        Robinson Ortiz

just in case

 

 

 

 

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