Viva El Birdos · Mar 7, 2019
Meet the unknown players at Spring Training
Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty ImagesLast year, a Cardinal batter came to the plate 1,210 times during Spring Training. A little over half of those plate appearances went to players who made some sort of significant impact in the majors and I’m including players like Carson Kelly and Francisco Peña in that group. That means that a little under 400 plate appearances went to players who either saw a cup of coffee or didn’t see the majors at all. Considering the team leader in PAs had 69 last year, that is not an insignificant amount of plate appearances to spread to MLB nonfactors.