LADodgerTalk.com · Mar 6
Baseball’s Mirage Season
Spring Training is baseball’s annual mirage season. A few weeks in Arizona or Florida and suddenly a utility infielder is Babe Ruth, a 29-year-old minor leaguer looks like the next MVP, and fans begin carving statues before Opening Day. Then… the roster comes out and that hero of March is riding a bus to Triple-A. Right about now, many Dodger fans are anointing Santiago Espinal as the World MVP. After all, he is hitting .625 with a 1.761 OPS. Of course, this is after several hundred at-bats… oh, it’s only 16 ABs? Who knew? Nick Senzel is OPS’ing 1.291, and Noah Miller is at 1.119 OPS. Shoot, Mike Sirota and Joe Vetrano are both OPS’ing 2.500. Wow! But it’s only 2 ABs.