Around this time in 1983, players started showing up to Clearwater to get a jumpstart on getting ready for the new season. It’s not like it is today where players come into camp already possessing the chiseled bodies and twitchy muscles needed to get through a grueling major league season. Some players truly used the spring to work themselves into game shape.
Sid Monge arrived in Clearwater just looking for a job.
The Phillies were looking for relievers and had quite a few options to that were ahead of Monge in the pecking order.
There will be no glut of guys clinging to their careers with frayed fingernails.