Similar routine as yesterday – meeting at the mound with Sandberg, stretching exercises, and then base running. Today, home to second, and second to home. There was more effort from more players, but 3 or 4 still look like they are taking it easy. One or two might be going easy due to injuries last year.
Daily Archives: February 20, 2014
Wetzler/Monda Discussion
I’ll open a thread for everyone to discuss Wetzler/Monda.
I’ll mention that I asked Aaron Fitt last night if he knew whether there was a possibility that Monda and Wetzler shared an adviser/agent, and he said plainly that they did not.
My immediate reaction is this can’t help The Phillies attract guys in the draft, but it may lead them to avoid guys who are a little more on the fence than they’re willing to say. If you’re in Jason Monda’s situation, I think you’re more unequivocal in your dealings with The Phillies – a “STAY AWAY FROM ME” kind of thing.
Ethically, it seems pretty questionable for a club to try to burn a college guy(s) over standard practice. When the signing deadline came and went, these two guys not signing seemed an indictment of The Phillies PacNW team. We’ll see how the details shake out. Too early to pass judgment. But feel free to do so in the comments. Continue reading Wetzler/Monda Discussion
2014 Spring Training, Day 7
The morning started with a team meeting at the mound on Schmidt Field. After calisthenics and stretching, the position players broke up into 2 groups on Schmidt and Ashburn and ran drills from home-to-first, and first-to-third. As could be expected, Utley ran the hardest from the start. Most others started slower. Ruiz, Asche, and Frandsen kept pace with Utley throughout. Rupp and Marson hustled but were handicapped by the fact that they are slow. Cedeno and Revere eventually reached a faster speed. The rest maintained the same comfortable pace throughout. Continue reading 2014 Spring Training, Day 7
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