The Pirates are a little more than a week into Spring Training, which isn’t enough time to make any kind of lasting decisions on the team in general, but is also long enough to pick up on some things that have been happening.
Here are some general thoughts, or observations, on the first week-plus of Spring Training games.
– I’m still not sure what the plan is at second base, but the original thought going into camp it would be Rodolfo Castro manning the position, with Ji-Hwan Bae playing a super-utility type of role.