BRADENTON, Fla. – The start of spring training is one of the most interesting of the year . After an offseason where players are in controlled environments, giving themselves the freedom to experiment and maybe change some things, they return to get feedback from live competition.
Sometimes it’s the start of a breakout. Other times it means nothing. With a shorter spring to work with, those changes are going to be a little more wild than usual because there won’t be as much in-game feedback to signal if what they’re doing is working or not.
“I think we have to be a little more open to how it plays, because we don’t have seven weeks, we have three weeks,” Derek Shelton said.