SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Ask Jason Motte where he lived between kindergarten and 12th grade, and he'll recite a list of locales that reads like that old Johnny Cash tune.
"Michigan, Louisiana, Connecticut, Louisiana again, Colorado, Florida, Arkansas, Kentucky, Florida again, New York," Motte said Thursday morning in the spring clubhouse of his new team, the Colorado Rockies.
"My dad worked construction. We were constantly moving around. So I'm used to being the new kid coming in, having to meet new people."
Motte has been everywhere, but now he's on a team coming off a 68-94 record and a last-place finish in the National League West, in some part because of a leaky bullpen.