Here are three things we’ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball world throughout the day today:
1. Full Squad Workouts:
Spring Training is kicking into full gear, and yesterday saw the first handful of teams have full squad workouts yesterday. That continues today with additional teams. In Arizona’s Cactus League, the A’s, Cubs, Reds, Royals, and Angels all have their position players reporting today. Meanwhile, the Grapefruit League in Florida will host full squad workouts for the Orioles, Astros, Marlins, Twins, Mets, Yankees, Phillies, Pirates, Cardinals, Blue Jays, and Nationals today. Alex Bregman (Cubs), Pete Alonso (Orioles), Bo Bichette (Mets), Kazuma Okamoto (Blue Jays), Eugenio Suarez (Reds), Jeff McNeil (A’s), Isaac Collins (Royals), and Ryan O’Hearn (Pirates) are among a large number of players suiting up for new teams for the first time today.
2. Will the Braves add a starter?
The latest news out of Atlanta is not exactly encouraging, as right-hander Hurston Waldrep is battling elbow soreness and is scheduled to meet with surgeon Dr. Keith Meister later today. It’s unclear exactly how long Waldrep will be sidelined, and an MRI revealed no structural damage, but with Spencer Schwellenbach already on the 60-day injured list there’s a great deal of urgency for the Braves to put together some depth for their rotation, lest they enter the season already leaning on depth pieces like Bryce Elder and Martin Perez. Fortunately for them, players like Lucas Giolito, Zack Littell, and Max Scherzer remain available in free agency who could potentially help stabilize things in the team’s rotation. Of course, Alex Anthopoulos and his front office have long been known to buck expectations, and it’s certainly possible they could instead look to pivot to the trade market or find another creative solution to their rotation conundrum.
3. Bendix, Sherman to speak at Marlins camp:
As Spring Training kicks off, Marlins president of baseball operations Peter Bendix and club owner Bruce Sherman are both expected to speak to the media this morning, as noted by Isaac Azout of Fish On First. Those comments from Bendix and Sherman will come on the heels of a busy offseason for the Marlins where they traded away Edward Cabrera and Ryan Weathers while also adding Pete Fairbanks to the bullpen, Chris Paddack to the rotation, and Owen Caissie to the lineup. It’s not hard to see why fans might view that as more subtraction than addition, at least when it comes to the big league club, though a rotation of Sandy Alcantara, Eury Perez, Braxton Garrett, Max Meyer, and Paddack still figures to be a very impressive one headed into the 2026 campaign, Fairbanks is a proven and decorated closer for the bullpen, and Caissie could certainly develop into a middle of the order, impact bat for the club. Bendix and Sherman could offer additional insight into the team’s internal expectations and plans for the remainder of the spring this morning.
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I folded my league called the Foul Post awhile ago.
If you’re looking for a cooler league name 😀
Lol, nah, I wanted a league representative of the fans here.
Who should I support? I guess I’ll use the wheel of names. Oh, it’s you!
Haha, thanks, Astros!
It was by luck. Update me please.
“…and yesterday saw the first handful of teams have full squad workouts yesterday.”
The second sentence of the article. Good grief.
That’s good ol Dick Needs for ya
Deeds is already in mid season form.
Just terrible. The inhumanity of it all. Are you all ok ? Can I get you a nice soothing cup of warm milk ?
I’d like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it please.
Based on reading your posts, I’m thinking that experience would absolutely crush your weak as piss constitution. Typos are doing your head in. No way you would survive that one.
Yeah I guess it’s just too much to ask paid professional writers to proofread their work in the year 2026, huh? I hope you don’t work in construction. Or the auto industry.
Self entitled, “poor me” weakness. It’s not construction or auto. It’s a free website, bro, and you don’t run it. The only consequence is a bit of effort in showing respect and moving on. Obviously way too much effort for your self entitled nature. Alternatively, you could also deliver the
deliver the correction like a grown adult. You go the pissed off 14yo girl route.
You are as weak as piss. The evidence is all there.
Looks like we found Deedsy’s burner.
Nah mate. Just a dude calling out a childish weak person.
Quite a conclusion to jump to. Sounds like someone has unresolved trauma
Petition to have Nick Deeds stop using AI to write his articles
Or maybe to start, whichever applies. Sort of a case of “If this is coffee then please bring me some tea. If it is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
Elder and Perez are going to get some starts, both could be good for Atlanta this season.
The article reads that a rotation of Alcantara, Perez, Meyer, Garrett and Paddack could still be an impressive rotation. Meyer and Garrett are both returning from significant injury, Paddack isn’t a solid 5. Junk could be. Alctanara and Perez could be good at the top but as a whole their group isn’t all that strong.
Miami has more than White and Snelling on the farm. Fulton, Mazur, Gusto could all work at the back of the rotation some.
Certainly a pitcher in FA waiting for a call from Miami, lowest payroll in MLB, but they cant do that much better, why force a team to spend money when they have a group of young pitchers to audition this season?
Might as well book a year of profitability as a business enterprise. Profitability is a good spirit.
Thanks for this Mr. Sherman but save it for the presser.
I was looking at the available free agents.
Would Anderson or Cortes pitch in relief?
Available LHRP:
T. Anderson
D. Coloumbe
N. Cortes
For righties, is Jon Gray a potential option?
Available RHRP:
J. Gray
M. Kopech
D. Moreta
M. Kranick
Lucas Giolito, Lol! He’s exactly where he should be.
Not signing Bassitt when AA had the chance is already biting this team on the rear. The offseason was solid but two straight years without adding a quality arm is unforgivable. Get on that phone, Alex. Go steal an A’s pitcher for some garbage prospects.
Bassit definitely felt like an AA signing too.
This was my prediction, too, sadly.
I’d love to hear them say they are dispensing with the fiction that is Ramirez playing C, and committing to Joe Mack as the starter.
Time for a new GM in Atlanta .