Lesky’s Notes: Less than a week to go

Three weeks ago, the lockout was freshly lifted and spring training was finally set to start. And now we sit here with just six days to go before Opening Day (or seven for some teams). It’s been a crazy ride through spring training, which I think has led to some challenges, but we’re almost ready to be talking about actual baseball games that matter. Sure the Royals have scored __ runs in 13 spring games this season, but will that translate to the regular season? History says not that many, but you’d be surprised about what does generally translate. As Alec Lewis wrote earlier this week, strikeout percentage, walk percentage and isolated slugging percentage do translate pretty well. The Royals are excelling in all those categories. Maybe we’re seeing the Keoni DeRenne factor at work? The Giants are a team that became an offensive juggernaut basically overnight with just some changes to their training regimen, so maybe. But the point is we get to find out and we get to find out soon!

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