FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Ice fishing and power pitching are not mutually exclusive. They can thrive in the same area.
Fans can support both high school hockey players with sizzling slap shots and big league pitchers with 98-mph fastballs. There's nothing about the climate that makes Minnesota a land of 10,000 pitchers who throw to contact.
"Anybody and everybody who is in the evaluation business will tell you they're looking for guys with stuff, and [they're] looking for guys who can locate, compete and stay healthy,'' Twins general manager Terry Ryan said. "Anybody's looking for that, and yeah, we are too.