Hello from Spring Training, again. This week was official report dates for the minor leaguers, with pitchers and catchers coming in earlier in the week and position players due to report today, so the backfields have filled up some, which means lots of notes about minor-leaguers in this installment of my diary from Peoria.
- Both fields at the complex on Tuesday were crowded, as the Mariners minor-leaguers played against a squad of upper-level prospects and MLB pitchers, while on the other field Justus Sheffield pitched an intrasquad scrimmage against major-league hitters who wanted some extra at-bats (the usual suspects: Dee, Ichiro, Haniger, but also Edwin Encarnación and others).