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This Week in Purple: On pitching and cracked trees

We’re one week closer to the start of the regular season, and we’re one week closer to Purple Row’s third annual Opening Day breakfast (and we still have tickets available!). As long as nobody gets injured, things will be getting better by the day on the baseball front. On the bad side of things, two certain relievers have caused Spring Training watchers to really lean on the “spring training stats don’t matter” adage. It’s This Week in Purple, and here’s what else was good and bad.

Those two relievers are Jake McGee and Bryan Shaw. The Rockies signed both of them as free agents before the 2018 season to be part of a supposed “super bullpen.