JUPITER, Fla. • Knowing that not all errors are created equal and not all defensive missteps appear in the box score, one of the projects manager Mike Shildt and his staff undertook this winter was a dissection of the defense, metric by metric, so that they could get a grip on how to improve it.
“I want to spin us out of the ‘this team can’t do anything fundamentally’ mode,” Shildt said. “I think we have. This group won 10 series in a row. Tied a franchise record. We played really good team defense (to do that).