Five spring trainings ago, Manny Machado and Jonathan Schoop's time in big league camp was limited to cameo appearances. They were occasionally shuttled in from minor league camp at Twin Lakes Park for the purposes of playing in mop-up innings of Grapefruit League games.
At the time, they were far from the cornerstone players they would become. The duo dressed in the auxiliary clubhouse at the Ed Smith Stadium complex. The young players wore No. 85 and No. 86 on jerseys that bore no names on the back because they were recycled daily for different players coming in from Twin Lakes.