Welcome Back, Baseball

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February 25, 2009

It’s party time – we’ve got box scores again. Honest to goodness, real life, team against team box scores. This is fantastic.

Jeff Francoeur went 0 for 4 and left 3 men on base.
Gerald Laird hit a triple.
The Reds threw Edinson Volquez, Johnny Cueto, and Homer Bailey at the Rays in succession.
Jerry Hairston Jr hit a grand slam.
Horacio Ramirez couldn’t get out of the first inning.
And yes, Andruw Jones struck out in his only at-bat.

Welcome back, baseball. It’s been too long.

Yes, I know, spring training doesn’t mean anything. The records and statistics don’t matter. The games don’t count. In many cases, the game is decided by whether one team’s has-been is better than another team’s never-will-be.

I don’t care. It’s baseball. It’s box scores. We can say goodbye to our latest winter of discontent. Hooray baseball.

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Dave is the Managing Editor of FanGraphs.

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Jack Moore
16 years ago

Corey Hart homered!!!!

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