"Selfishly, there's a lot of things I'm looking forward to seeing this spring," Hurdle said. "It's one thing to talk about players and watch video; it's another thing to post up with them, to talk to them live and watch them go play.
"Every single one of them, I'm looking forward to seeing them play. Anybody that's grown up through our organization, yeah, there's a twinkle in their eye, there's a twinkle in mine to watch them."
Right-handers Tyler Glasnow and Jameson Taillon, the club's top two pitching prospects, will start the game.