Found March 09, 2012 on Monkey with a Halo: Yardbarker Blogger Network
Spring training baseball, ain't it great!  Actually, it really isn't great.  The play tends to be sloppy, disjointed and full of players you have never heard of and never will hear of.  It just seems great because it is actual baseball and we haven't seen that in months.  I guess that makes it still great, just on a relative basis. With the overrated greatness of spring training games comes the over-thought analysis of spring training games.  We know it is wrong, yet we still do it anyway.  We can't help it, we're baseball junkies. Alas, I am not immune to any of this, thus I think it is high time we dive deep into some probably worthless, premature analysis of the incredibly small sample size of four Angels spring training games: I mentioned it in the links this morning, but it merits further discussion.  I generally assumed that Hank Conger was going to start the season in the minors so that Chris Iannetta could proceed unfettered as the starting catcher. ...
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