SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Ryan McMahon is never too far from a good burrito, at least in his dreams, even when his team barnstorms the East Coast from road trip to road trip without a home. His Double-A Hartford Yard Goats last season never played a game in Hartford.
So his spring training base about a mile from the Rockies’ offseason headquarters in Arizona seems ideal.
“I’m about a block away,” McMahon said of his go-to burrito spot, close enough to build a five-day streak of burritos to start spring.
The Rockies’ prized corner-infield prospect, a second-round draft pick in 2013, has zig-zagged through the minor leagues, from third base to first, then both, first on a statistical hitting tear through Single-A, then a dip in Double-A.