Defense is consistently overlooked when assessing how good a ball club is, especially when the team is known for their offense. Cinderella teams over the past few seasons have all had above-average defensive players contributing in the field. Including the 2014 Royals, 2013 Pirates, 2012 Athletics, and most notably the 2011 Rays. None of these [...]
David Wright’s overblown reaction to Noah Syndergaard eating his lunch inside rather than being on the bench with his teammates was a big story for the wrong reasons. It was one of those funny little anecdotes that gets tossed around in the fairly calm early days of spring training. Unless there is a major injury [...]