JUPITER, Fla. -- Each morning, Kolten Wong slings his bat bag over his shoulder, grabs his glove and then bends over for one last piece of essential equipment before he heads to the field for morning stretch at St. Louis Cardinals camp.
It’s a high-powered portable speaker for players to plug their smart phones into. The team rotates who gets to pick the music, and it’s all the brainchild of the team’s newest centerpiece player, Dexter Fowler.
One day last week, players were swaying to Kanye West’s “All Falls Down,” between taking hacks in the cage.