Opening Day is less than two weeks away. That means the Rockies are now letting pitchers hit in Spring Training games, and some lineups are starting to look curiously close to what they’ll look like when the games start counting. Nobody is worried about Nolan Arenado’s .219 batting average, but there are quite a few other players whose performances may affect where they’ll start the 2019 regular season. Let’s take a look a the Good and the Bad of that, as well as other happenings around baseball.
Raimel Tapia has 13 more Spring Training plate appearances than he had during the 2018 regular season — 40 to 27(!