What I'm Hearing: Bob Nightengale was in attendance for Bryce Harper's introductory press conference for the Philadelphia Phillies. He says it was made clear what the expectations are for this year and beyond. USA TODAY
Free Press sports writer Anthony Fenech is chronicling his fifth spring training on the Detroit Tigers beat with Letters from Lakeland, which will be published on Freep.com every Monday morning this spring. Read previous lettershere, here and here.
LAKELAND, Fla. — Dear Mom,
I was walking into Publix last night, wondering what I was going to write to you this week, when a woman startled me by wailing out of the passenger’s side window of a parked minivan.