SCOTTSDALE, AZ -- Mike Yastrzemski didn't ask for adversity, but he's absolutely willing to learn from it. Yastrzemski, the grandson of Hall-of-Famer Carl Yastrzemski, played through his second tour in the Double-A Eastern League this season and finished with a career-worst batting average (.246).
The younger Yastrzemski is an outfielder in the Baltimore Orioles' organization, and he's currently getting in some extra work with the Peoria Javelinas in the Arizona Fall League. And when the 25-year-old evaluates his season, he admits that it wasn't necessarily a bad thing for him to run into a roadblock.
"It was probably good for me to realize this isn't the easiest game in the world," he said on Wednesday, hours before his team took on the Surprise Saguaros at Salt River Fields.