SURPRISE, Ariz. Proof that Adrian Beltre is able-bodied and planning to play this season could be found Monday afternoon at Surprise Stadium, where Beltre himself was in the Texas Rangers' lineup.
The goal was for him to remain upright for a whole three innings of his abbreviated spring debut.
But to listen to him and others describe the process of getting to this point, it sounds like he was injured when he arrived to camp or is in the recovery phase after coming out a deep coma.
No, no, no. That's not the case, the involved parties said.