Lesky’s Notes: We’ll see what speed can do

Before we really get started, I just want to address the elephant in the room. If I decide that this edition of Lesky’s Notes has gone on too long, I absolutely refuse to roll it. That’s not how I’m built and that’s now who I want to be. Phew. Glad we got that out of the way. So far, it’s a pretty uneventful spring, which is actually a good thing. As I wrote on Inside the Crown this week with my second roster prediction for the hitters and the pitchers (won’t you please subscribe?), things are pretty well set for the vast majority of the roster, but there’ll be some bullpen battles, and those can always be fun. I really wanted to get into a breakdown of how spring is going for some players, but when I thought about what I wanted to say about Ryan O’Hearn going 2 for 7, I realized that it might be a touch too early for that, even if maybe it never isn’t too early in the spring. Hey, at least we get Brad Keller vs. Clayton Kershaw on television today.

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