As long as the ball is coming off of his bat well, it'll find holes eventually. I think he was the victim of some bad luck last season. He'll have his rookie season behind him. Hopefully a reversal of fortune (ie, a more in line BABIP). I think he's going to have a pretty good season.
Depending upon how one looks at a calendar (Sun-Sat or Mon-Sun), Opening Day is next week. Never mind the dusting of snow that was on the ground this morning. The games are for real next week. Every game is televised and radioised. The dugouts aren’t as crowded. It’s American League and National League rather groupings of citrus and prickly plants. We’re almost there.
In all honesty, this is a good game to suck. Get it out of the way. It’s not on Tiger radio or television. Boyd gets a clunker out of his system. Sucks for Evil Roy, but on the other, he’s in Florida in March, so, hey, that ain’t bad.
He’s on the 40, he’s being used in the IF and OF, so I think they’re considering it.
Maybe they should be using Short in CF a bit more to see if he’s a viable RHH CF option if Vierling becomes unavailable. I’m not sure how much, if at all, he’s been in CF. Or maybe they’ve seen enough.
I would say he’s probably a better baseball player right now than Miguel Cabrera because he can play defense, he can run bases, and neither is much of a hitter.
I hate that Stan Van Gundy is one of the TV voices of these games. Nails on chalkboard even if what he says is accurate or makes sense. The only possible value I can see is if he diagrams “form a flippin’ wall” in front of the basket.
OSU put a short guy on Edey during the B10 tourney. They had no choice. They tried to keep Edey away from the basket when he got the pass, but they didn’t really make the entry pass & catch tougher.