RELIEVERS: 2023 AL Spring Training observations
Mar 24 2023
With opening day just days ahead, this column takes a look at how spring training went for relievers in pens where roles might not have been set when pitchers and catchers reported back in February. For the most part, we still don't know the roles, but we can make a few observations. All caveats apply. In fact, we may be dumber by drawing any conclusions based on five innings of work in spring games against what could be a wide variety in quality, without knowing really anything about what is going on every day on back fields or in tunnels. So don't change your projections just yet. Take it more as an additional tidbit of information to carry forward. And, of course, there are some more names to add to your lists.
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