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There’s more to Greg Bird’s slow spring than the usual noise, but he thinks he’s found a fix

Spring Training is, without question, the worst time of year to evaluate players. Basically no one is in midseason form, rarely do we know what a player is working on on a given day, and the quality of competition varies wildly. Not just day-to-day either. Inning-to-inning. A hitter could face a Cy Young candidate one at-bat and a Single-A kid the next.

Because of that, I never did think much about Greg Bird’s slow Grapefruit League season. He’s hitting .171/.292/.268 in 48 plate appearances at the moment — it was .158/.289/.184 prior to that long home run yesterday — which is objectively terrible, but it is Spring Training, so who cares?