Only in a spring game can you lose 12-3 and still find postives. J.D. Drew continues to hit the ball well and if he’s 100% heading into opening day, I’ll be pretty happy. Drew hit his second homerun of the spring and he also tripled. He’s now hitting .417 in 12 at bats and he has five runs and two walks. He’s sporting an impressive .417/.500/1.083 line. I talked about how important Drew would be if this team is going to succeed this year and so far, I like what I’m seeing.
I’m not sure if McCourt is complimenting Grady Little and Ned Colleti as much as he’s bashing Paul DePodesta, but he sure seems positive. There’s no doubt this is going to be an interesting team and I’m looking forward to opening day.
I’ve been doing some preliminary work on my Don Drysdale retrospective. I have to go through everything one more time, but I’m missing a few of his games. I was hoping Retrosheet would have play by play for the 1956 season, but it sounds like they’re only going back to 1957. Not that I’m complaining because there’s plenty of stuff there to mess with.
