When it comes to Spring Training, no news is good news.
An ideal March is a quiet one in which teams take the field after lunch, quickly and succinctly throw, catch, hit, run for 9 innings before wrapping things up in time for dinner.
Sure, it’s fun to have your Twitter a-flutter with poorly filmed clips of Joey Bart and Joc Pederson going deep in a game—but I’d trade every newsflash homer for a healthy roster come April.
One home run in Scottsdale does not prophesy 25 in the big leagues, but a pulled hammie could come with ramifications.