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Not one is assured of making the team.ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 07:51 am https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-car ... /final/box
Not a good sign.
My lord...are you new to baseball?ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 07:51 am https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-car ... /final/box
Not a good sign.
Yes. I never heard of it before. Explain why Wetherholt has only played parts of 2 games at 2B when he is going to be the 2B on opening day.scoutyjones2 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 08:38 amMy lord...are you new to baseball?ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 07:51 am https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-car ... /final/box
Not a good sign.
So you have never experienced spring training before...ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 09:01 amYes. I never heard of it before. Explain why Wetherholt has only played parts of 2 games at 2B when he is going to be the 2B on opening day.scoutyjones2 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 08:38 amMy lord...are you new to baseball?ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 07:51 am https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-car ... /final/box
Not a good sign.
Wait...I thought you were freaking out about pitchers? Who work on things in ST while building up stamina...now it's JW?ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 09:01 amYes. I never heard of it before. Explain why Wetherholt has only played parts of 2 games at 2B when he is going to be the 2B on opening day.scoutyjones2 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 08:38 amMy lord...are you new to baseball?ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 07:51 am https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-car ... /final/box
Not a good sign.
Indeed. Opening day for MLB is March 26. Until about the last 10-15 days of ST, the lineups and positions... well in the infamous words of Mr. Natural, "Don't mean sheeit". The minor league players will be out of camp and then the big boys will start to get more innings where they will play. Pitchers will go 3 innings if they are starters.. the world will keep spinning...scoutyjones2 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 09:10 amSo you have never experienced spring training before...ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 09:01 amYes. I never heard of it before. Explain why Wetherholt has only played parts of 2 games at 2B when he is going to be the 2B on opening day.scoutyjones2 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 08:38 amMy lord...are you new to baseball?ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 07:51 am https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-car ... /final/box
Not a good sign.
They've played 7 games. Nobody has been in more than 5 and he's been in 4...
Maybe bc ST is the time to work on the more uncomfortable positions he may need to play rather than play the position he’s played his entire life.ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 09:01 amYes. I never heard of it before. Explain why Wetherholt has only played parts of 2 games at 2B when he is going to be the 2B on opening day.scoutyjones2 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 08:38 amMy lord...are you new to baseball?ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 07:51 am https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-car ... /final/box
Not a good sign.
Take this with a grain of salt… to me, outs from pitchers in spring training aren’t all that important. It’s about feel, and health, and building. A guy doesn’t need to paint the corners or unleash his nastiest secondaries in games that don’t matter. Teams are far more interested in how it looks than the results at this point of the year.sikeston bulldog2 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 09:52 am Makes you wonder don’t it. Most say- it’s spring training. They are working on things.
My take. A ball player at this level would never allowed himself to lose that edge: he must be training in the off season.
How then, with so much for the pro to utilize, does one come to ST and Cant go a mere three outs, early or not.
Surely these pitchers have been throwing all off season to a certain degree.
Seems callous to me.
That’s exactly my point- feel, health, and build. All off season, surely we got healthy minus surgeries. Feel. They pitch often in off season. The only feel I see relevant is weather related feel. Build. I agree. Nothing can build you to THAT point like in game solutions.An Old Friend wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 10:11 amTake this with a grain of salt… to me, outs from pitchers in spring training aren’t all that important. It’s about feel, and health, and building. A guy doesn’t need to paint the corners or unleash his nastiest secondaries in games that don’t matter. Teams are far more interested in how it looks than the results at this point of the year.sikeston bulldog2 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 09:52 am Makes you wonder don’t it. Most say- it’s spring training. They are working on things.
My take. A ball player at this level would never allowed himself to lose that edge: he must be training in the off season.
How then, with so much for the pro to utilize, does one come to ST and Cant go a mere three outs, early or not.
Surely these pitchers have been throwing all off season to a certain degree.
Seems callous to me.
These aren't 10 year olds learning to play a position fir the first time. They practice all day long, and do drills all day long, which is more valuable than a few innings on defense. Do you really think JJ playing 4 innings at 2b every other day is going to change him one way or the other?ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 09:01 amYes. I never heard of it before. Explain why Wetherholt has only played parts of 2 games at 2B when he is going to be the 2B on opening day.scoutyjones2 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 08:38 amMy lord...are you new to baseball?ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑28 Feb 2026 07:51 am https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-car ... /final/box
Not a good sign.