• The Twins could use -- or rather, they need -- another bat, what with Victor Caratini's questoinable status from his strained index finger, Alex Jackson's apparent inability to hit the four-seamed fastball, and Austin Martin's likely tired arm, which is to say, now is not the time for general manager Thad Levine to relax and mow the lawn.


• <280>on the bench / / Garrett Acton: / life itself discontinues, and that hardly makes me disgruntled. / / Ryan Gusto: / That's Rafael Devers's objective, not mine. / / Garrett Acton: / You will always become the ballpark, Gusto. / / Ryan Gusto: / I feel indignant about the optician.


• Angels manager Ron Washington says "Yusei Kikuchi can be for us what Kyle Freeland is for Colorado. He's that unfriendly."


• The Cardinals need Lars Nootbaar healthy after his ruptured rib, and think if Ivan Herrera can be more patient and stop chasing the slow ball, he can knock in 99 runs, along with Nolan Gorman.

texas blues

spring is like
a guitar
(which comes carefully out of
Texas)

arranging a grandstand

from which people look (while people stare

there a strange thing

and a known thing here)

and

while
Chris Young changes everything carefully (to

and fro)

and moving (new

and old players)

perhaps

without breaking anything

 

 

 

 

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