2009 spring training Stories - SB Nation
Royals Say Farewell to Jimmy Gobble
I can't help but feel a little sad about this one. The Royals parted ways with Billy James Gobble (really) today, ending a ten year relationship with one of the more identifiable players of the last d...
The Astros Have Won One Game This Spring
The Astros are 1-14-3 (do you put ties at the end?) this Spring Training. That's right, they have one win, fourteen loses, and three ties. Can we contract the National League to like eight franchises?...
Scary News: David DeJesus May Never Slug Over .400 Again
It's a now annual excercise to look at David DeJesus's PECOTA card and lament the lack of anything exciting. Of course, DeJesus is 29 now, and although we're living in the David DeJesus Era, we've com...
A Week Into Spring Training, Royals Learning Valuable Lessons for 2009
The only thing more important than the performances we've seen this last week has been the clubhouse chemistry developed between the guys. We can't report on the latter, but we can on the former. Two ...
Spring Training Stats are Meaningless, version 2.0
As the Royals have begun what I'm sure will be a historic Cactus League season, I thought this would be a good time to revisit the issue of spring training stats. A year ago, I wrote the or...
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