His brief and rather inconspicuous first season in the major leagues is over, but the baseball year isn’t stopping for ballyhooed Braves third baseman Hector Olivera, who’ll play six weeks of winter ball in Puerto Rico and have a Braves coach working with him every step of the way.
Actually, the latter process will begin even sooner than the start of the winter-ball season. Olivera will start working almost immediately with Braves assistant hitting coach Jose Castro in Miami, where both men have homes.
