What is the story about?
The
pool play for the WBC begins in earnest today, which means as I write this, Shohei Ohtani hits a grand slam to open the scoring for Samurai Japan.
Because of course he did.
On to the links.
Phillies news:
- Aaron Nola has had much better stuff, much higher velocity this spring so far. Maybe we can thank the WBC for that ($).
- Kyle Backhus continues to have a solid spring in his audition for the Phillies. The manager certainly likes him.
MLB news:
- MLB Pipeline has a new #1 team in their organizational system rankings. For once, the Dodgers aren’t the best at something!
- Andrew McCutchen will try for one more season in the sun. This time, the sun will be much hotter as it will be in Texas.
- Well, maybe those Orioles were after more starting pitching after all as it’s now being reported that they made a nine-figure offer to Ranger Suarez.
