It didn’t take long into competition for Adam Haseley to begin to make his case for the starting center fielder job. Only two pitches into the Phillies’ opener on Sunday in Lakeland, he smacked an opposite field home run.
Now, it is Spring Training and the results do not matter as much as the process. Spring Training is not about winning the game but rather about the players getting work in on the field while getting in shape for the season. So, in the same way that the final score of the game does not matter (I’m looking at you, Phillies Facebook & Twitter), the home run itself does not matter much.