As we get closer and closer to the regular season, the starting pitching stays in longer, the starting players play longer, and the AB for prospects and players trying to get one of the final roster spots start to shrink. With all of this comes roster moves as players get reassigned to the Minor League homes for the start of the season.
The Players that were reassigned were:
Tony Armas Jr.
Nate Field
Joselo Diaz
Fernando Martinez
The real star here is FMart, especially of late, he seems to be always getting one or two hits, extra-base hits, etc this spring. He had 47 AB over 18 games where he had 16 hits, that included 4 doubles, 5 runs, 4 RBIs, 2 BB and 7 K's. His OBP was .373, his BA was .340, and his SLG was .426. We all got to see his nice even swing this Spring and think about the future.
On top of his offense stats, he had some nice defense plays, including a number one Web Gem announced on Tuesday's Baseball Tonight.
We will see FMart soon, whether its due to injuries to the starters this year, or whether we have to wait to next year.
In other news:
MLB.com has changed the layout of their homepage, and I have not formed an opinion about it yet.
Kerry Wood is injured again.
Joba will start in the bullpen.
Nomar has a microfracture in his right hand.
