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1. Three Notable Spring Debuts
2. Video: Excellent Yu Darvish Compilation
3. Crowdsourcing Broadcasters: Texas Radio

Three Notable Spring Debuts
The four games being offered on MLB.TV today likely won’t hold much interest for fans outside the relevant markets. Notable, however, is that three Pitchers of Interest will be making their spring debuts, as follow.

Shelby Miller at Washington, 13:05 ET
Miller has been near the top of every prospect list this offseason. His fastball sits in the mid-90s and both his curve and change are already solid-average pitches. Last year, in his age-20 season, he struck out 29.7% of batters faced in 139.2 innings between High- and Double-A. Here’s his ZiPS projections for this season: 132.1 IP, 8.57 K/9, 4.63 BB/9, 0.68 HR/9, 3.65 FIP. He’s unlikely to break camp with the Cardinals, but could compel the club to give him a midseason call-up. Like, by pitching well, I mean. Not by threats of violence, like you were thinking.

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1. Select Televised Games
2. Video: Garrett Richards Throwing Hard
3. Crowdsourcing Broadcasters: Toronto Radio

Select Televised Games
Chicago AL at Los Angeles AL | 15:05 ET
Right-hander Garrett Richards makes the start for the Angels in this game. He was featured in a post here from February regarding the sorts of qualities that might make a pitcher The Next Michael Pineda — mostly owing to his excellent velocity (he sits at 94-95 mph) and control (his minor-league walk rates have always been around 7%).

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Angels Television.

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1. Selected Games
2. Video: Jeff Lunhow Using Reason
3. Crowdsourcing Broadcasters: Washington Radio

Selected Games
Washington at New York NL | 18:10 ET
John Lannan versus Dillon Gee is not precisely what one’d call a “dream matchup,” but (a) Bryce Harper is starting, (b) Mets prospect Matt Harvey is following Gee, and (c) if you’re interested in this sort of thing, the second-ranked television broadcast team (per FanGraphs readers) is calling the game.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: New York Television.

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1. Spring Training Games on MLB.TV This Weekend
2. Three Notable College Series
3. Video: South Carolina Right-Hander Matt Price

Spring Training Games on MLB.TV This Weekend
As I threatened I would yesterday, I’m once again printing this weekend’s MLB.TV schedule.

Right here, specifically, is where I’m reprinting it:

Sat, Mar 3
1:05 PM New York Yankees vs Philadelphia Phillies
7:05 PM Boston College Eagles vs Boston Red Sox

Sun, Mar 4
1:05 PM Houston Astros vs Washington Nationals
1:05 PM Philadelphia Phillies vs New York Yankees
1:35 PM Minnesota Twins (ss) vs Boston Red Sox

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1. Injury Reports: Howard, Sanchez, Sizemore
2. Actual Game Result: Philadelphia vs. FSU
3. Actual Future Games: MLB.TV This Weekend

Injury Reports
Howard Maybe Doesn’t Not Not Suffer Setback
Three or so days ago, manager Charlie Manuel told reporters that first baseman Ryan Howard had suffered a setback in his recovery from Achilles surgery. The day after that, the club clarified Manuel’s statement, noting that Howard had a condition known as seroma — a pocket of clear fluid that sometimes develops in an area after surgery, and which is relatively common following the sort of procedure Howard had undergone. Now, this morning, Matt Gelb of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Howard underwent a “small procedure” Monday to remove stitches from Howard’s wound. Howard must allow the new wound to heal before resuming rehab, is the point, and is sidelined indefinitely — which, if you don’t know, now you know.

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1. Injury Reports
2. Other Assorted Headlines
3. GIF: Josh Banks’s Kunckleball

Injury Reports
Freeman Injures Knee, Out Maybe Two Weeks
Atlanta first baseman Freddie Freeman has a sublux (partial dislocation) of the right kneecap after being injured during a fielding drill near the end of Tuesday’s workout, reports David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal Constitution almost verbatim. MLB.com’s Mark Bowman notes that the injury occurred as Freeman was attempting to pick a low throw out of the dirt and might force the Braves first baseman to miss upwards of two weeks — i.e. how long it took him to recover after suffering a similar injury in May 2010 at Triple-A Gwinnett.

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Ack.

With the beginning of Spring Training comes actual reports of actual baseball players. Today’s edition of Daily Notes looks at five injury situations from the earliest days of spring camps.

Tampa Bay’s Moore Has Slight Abdominal Situation
Rays left-hander Matt Moore missed his scheduled batting practice session on Monday due to a mild lower abdominal strain, reports Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. Apparently — again, per Topkin — the strain become evident on Friday, while Moore was throwing a bullpen. Moore, as FanGraphs readers likely already know, has been among the top three players on basically every top-whatever prospect list and also signed a decidedly team-friendly contract this offseason. Moore struck out 15 of the 40 (37.5%) major-league batters he faced following a late-season promotion last year.

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Devin Mesoraco will likely keep doing this.

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1. Announcement: This Is Now Called Daily Notes
2. Prospecting: John Sickels’ Top 120 Prospect List
3. Projecting: Steamer Projections for Hitters

Announcement: This Is Now Called Daily Notes
During the last two regular seasons, the present author has written a mostly daily column called One Night Only, in which he previews the day’s games. During not the regular season, the present author has written a mostly daily column called Offseason Notes, in which he aggregates from the internet that information most relevant to America’s baseball nerds. Those are facts that even championship lawyer Sam Waterston can’t deny.

What the beginning of spring training has brought to said author’s attention, however, is that there’s a time of the year that is both not the season and not not the season — which, as graduate humanities students everywhere can tell you, problematizes the idea of what is and isn’t the season.

In response, there will now be just one daily piece, and it will be called Daily Notes, and it will appear in these pages until such as time as seven seals and seven trumpets and seven plagues appear unto us.

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