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BenFred: Spring training spotlight means the world to prospects like Flaherty

JUPITER, Fla. • Maybe you missed it.

The Cardinals were losing 3-1. Matt Holliday wasn’t trying his hand at first base. Mike Leake, a new starter worth studying, wasn’t on the mound. Neither Jedd Gyorko nor Aledmys Diaz was helping, or hurting, his chances of locking up the vacant shortstop job. And most of the Nationals you knew had hit the showers after the fifth inning, a spring training tradition.

If you flipped from MLB Network to something else, who could blame you?

Even some of the folks who were there Sunday, at Space Coast Stadium in Viera, Fla.