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.940 XBA on that and Bradfield made it look like a can of corn.

Bradfield just showed his defensive range right there on that rocket to left field. That was a double with most outfielders.

Collin Burns. Good glove SS/2B who made his way to Bowie last year despite missing time for an injury.

Luis Gonzales

Pitchers are usually ahead of hitters early on, but a lot of pitchers pitching our hitters up and in with success.

Not at all. The broadcast itself from the split screens, to the graphics, and even the announcers do a good job. I expect them to spend time talking to their coaches and players. But overall the quality of broadcast is night and day compared to the Middle School AV club broadcast MASN puts together.

The Pirates broadcast experience is always so good.

Baker got hit hard but got out of the inning unscathed.

It seems to be the free game on MLB TV.

Kjerstad made the catch, but looked a little sketchy at that wall.

Curious, and perhaps I missed a post, but where did you get his "lifting numbers" from? Was that something Holliday told in an interview?

Do they have a different centerfield camera?

He is a big dude.

Looked like Stallings shook off Adley, and then threw a curveball for a hit. Maybe throw what the big league catcher rook.

Damn, seems like everything is blurry on this telecast like they are using the first HD camera's ever.

Could be nerves. New team and first appearance and all.

Heasley really has slowed the pace of the game down by getting into deep counts on everyone.

Nice job by Holliday to deak the runner on that bad throw by Rutschman.

Heasley was like, "I'm not walking this guy after starting off 1-2, so here's one down the chute." BOOM!

Hope they get this shaky Cf cam settled.. Nice start for Burnes!

Can't wait for the new owner to take over so we can have announcers enjoying the sunny Sarasota instead of announcing from the feed. Just a weird vibe when they do this, but better than no broadcast.

I think that's a valid take and I get what you are saying. I too do not see that explosive first step you'd like to see from your shortstop but then again, you could probably say that about Mike Bordick. Does he have the ideal tools and quickness to be an elite defensive shortstop, I'd say probably not, but its not out of the question that he could improve enough to play there effectively one day. I agree with you that right now, his home should be second base. It very well may end up his "forever" home defensively or maybe one day they Robin Yount him and send him to center field to use his speed. Who knows, but we all know his bat is going to play at the major league level at some point and he's going to end up a very good defender somewhere.

That chart is really interesting, thanks for sharing. Here's the thing to remember about arm strength at SS, while it's important, it's not the be all, end all if your can throw accurately and transfer quickly. Take Dansby Swanson from the Braves, he has 19th percentile throwing but was worth 20 OAA and 15 fielding runs. So even if Holliday's arm does not improve and judging by a few videos I've seen this spring it does not appear it's going to be a strength for him, that does not necessarily mean he can't become a good major league shortstop. Now is he better than Gunnar Henderson right now? No, I don't think so and besides Law, I don't think any other evaluator would say so. Will he be better in a few years if Gunnar's range, which is average now, becomes below average due to him getting bigger and older? Perhaps. I think over the next few years at least, Gunnar is going to be at SS and Holliday at 2B. But it would not surprise me in 3-4 years if Gunnar doesn't move over to 3B and depending on who is ready (remember the Orioles have some highly thought of International SSs developing) Holliday could move to SS or he may just stay at 2B because he's comfortable there by then and because he'll probably end up a plus defender at 2B.

Hardy actually had a plus arm, it's just he only used it when he needed to.

I fixed it. @SteveA is still in spring training too!!!