2 Days: Until Pitchers & Catcher report for Spring Training
15 Days: Until the Cactus League Opener
48 Days: Until Opening Night
We have reached the day when I usually consider the baseball off-season over. College Baseball got underway last night. In fact, MLB Network is televising two college games this afternoon. Spring Training will start on Monday. From here until the last out of the World Series there will be some genuine baseball news to consume. Not just speculation and sabermetric rankings. Those things can be fun, but let’s be honest, real baseball is more fun that those things. So, you will find no more off-season whining from me. Seems like I did a lot of that, of which I’m making no apologies.
As a Royals fan this Spring Training is going to be different in that there are less questions than what normally accompanies a Royals Spring Training. I think the team knows, and the fans know who their position players will be on Opening Night in Anaheim. The prospects that...
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PLAYERS:
Lorenzo Cain,
Dayton Moore,
Melky Cabrera,
Zack Greinke,
Jermaine Dye,
Carlos Beltran,
Raul Ibanez,
Alex Gordon,
Jeff Francoeur
TEAMS: Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies
TEAMS: Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies
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