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Apr 22, 2021 Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning you’ll get a fresh, topical column to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. Jay Bruce retired Sunday after a 14-year career. His problem was not when his career ended but when it began. As a left-handed pull hitter without much speed, Bruce came along at the wrong time. If you want an example of how the growth of defensive shifts has harmed careers, Bruce is as blatant an example as any. Jay Bruce hits in front of catcher Brian McCann in the fourth inning of a game in 2019. Both left-handed hitters, Bruce and McCan...

Akil Baddoo felt like he'd lived this moment before. When the Minnesota Twins decided Baddoo wasn't worth protecting on their 40-man roster and the Detroit Tigers quietly took the outfielder in the Rule 5 draft in December, his mom, Akilah, made a point of it. "Do you remember them questioning you?" she asked her son. "Do you remember that feeling in high school when they didn't trust you and they had you batting eighth or ninth? Doesn't this feel like deja vu?" "Yep," her son responded. "I played ball," he said. Unwritten rules are made to be broken! How a new generation of players is shifti...

Mets Morning News: Pitch 22 Share this story Thanks to a five-run fifth inning with runs driven in by Pete Alonso, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Davis, and Michael Conforto, the Mets tallied a 7-5 victory over the Cardinals. The Mets’ 2021 Opening Day roster might not be set in stone, but for the most part, it’s fairly predictable. Potentially surpassing catching a flying baseball bat one-handed as the coolest thing he has ever done during spring training, Luis Guillorme worked a 22-pitch walk against the Cardinals’ Jordan Hicks. Around the National League East In an incredibly low stakes ...

Chapter 143: Omar Infante Share this story There have been 630 players to appear with the Florida and through their first 28 seasons of major league play. Players in the series are sorted in ascending bWAR divided by PA/BF. Omar Infante earned 4.3 bWAR in 233 games for the Marlins. 23. Omar Infante Omar Infante is a right-handed five-foot-11 infielder from Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. A 15-season major league veteran, Infante manned second base almost exclusively by the time he reached the Marlins in 2011. In 1999, still just 17-years-old, Infante signed his first professional contract wit...

March 7, 2021 Spring training taking place on (what is hopefully) the back end of a pandemic makes for different routines and challenges, and not just for players and coaching staffs. Media relations personnel are impacted as well. Due to COVID-19 protocols, how they’re going about their business is anything but ordinary. Dustin Morse is among those having to adjust on the fly. Now in his 16th season with the Minnesota Twins — his sixth as Senior Director of Communications — Morse is doing more than masking-up when he arrives at Hammond Stadium every morning. With face-to-face interacti...