A taste of spring training February 18th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Pitchers and catchers are well underway with their spring workouts in Ft Myers, FL. Noah Pransky of ABC7 caught up with Joe Mauer check out Noah’s Blog as well as the video below.
In addition to Francisco Liriano’s well publicized absence, Dennys Reyes and Alexi Casilla are also having trouble getting to camp..
LEN III has a quick post about meeting the new guys, including pronunciation help. He also adds that Boof Bonser appears to have lost more than 25 lbs.
Jon Heyman, of SI.com, has a report of the best GMs in baseball. Bill Smith is, to not much surprise, absent from the story, but he does give a lot of attention to Theo Epstein’s work in keeping Santana away from the other New York team.
I had almost forgotten about the horribly short stint Bret Boone had with the Twins in the second half of 2005. Then I read that he’s trying to get back into baseball. He signed a non-guaranteed contract with the Washington Nationals. The 39 year old’s father, Bob Boone is the assistant GM for the Nationals.
There are some high hopes in Tampa – involves Matt Garza.
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