CLEARWATER, Fla. — It would make for a nice, neat story:
Kid gets cut from the team one year because he’s a little too green, goes down to the minors and gets hurt, rehabs like crazy, reports to camp this year fitter and readier, and plays even better.
Makes the team, right?
Let’s hope not.
For the good of the franchise and the good of himself, second baseman Jesmuel Valentin should start the season in triple A. Again.
He won’t like hearing that, and he shouldn’t, because every player should want to be in the big leagues as soon as he can get there.