Ross Cadena wanted to work on hand-eye coordination during the stay-at-home period and lacked his usual tools in Texas. He looked around the kitchen and improvised.
"I would hit beans out in the backyard at my house," he said. "Usually, I hit BBs before a game with a (hitting) stick. The only thing I had in the house was (brown) beans, so I said 'I'll just use beans. They're pretty small.'"
Baseball returns from the kitchens, backyards and lonely bullpens this week in Wichita with the opening of the Sunflower Collegiate League on Monday.