Well after the first week of spring training, the position players start reporting for spring training. And now that the position players are in Bradenton, the main focus of spring training is focused most of team chemistry. I will also go over anymore position battles that are arising.
Manager John Russell wants to use spring training as a bonding experience after the Pirates made seven trades last June and July. The Pirates have a fairly settled team considering they lost 99 games last season. Jeff Clement will try to make the conversion from catcher to first baseman, and if that fails, then RF Garrett Jones would shift to first and Ryan Church likely would move in as the starting right fielder.
Player Notes
--INF Ramon Vazquez underwent arthroscopic mic ...
Read Full Article at Bleacher Report - MLB
Article written by Josh Redcay
Comments Off on Pittsburgh Pirates 2010 Spring Training Report