Non-roster invitee RHP Eddie Gamboa took his turn Sunday in live batting practice. That normally would not be a big deal except for this: Gamboa is a knuckleball pitcher.
Seems a little unfair to unleash the floater on the hitters this early in camp, doesn’t it? Manager Kevin Cash disagrees.
“I think it’s very fair because we face one in our division quite a bit. It’s fine,” Cash said. “It gives them a different look. Right now the nice thing is he’s kind of interchangeable the fact that he pitches and somebody comes in after him, so it’s not like you’re facing two and half hours of seven innings of knuckleballs.