Random thoughts...

-Nothing exciting really on the front for the Tribe. They've been fairly successful this spring. Not a whole to say until the first cuts when ST gets a little furthur in. I guess the good thing is that there arent any serious injuries or no shows. Marte and Garko have done pretty well respectively.

-Something I learned while reading yesterday was that the preconceived notion where walks/patience equivocates to power is wrong. Instead it is reversed. Power leads to walks. I can't link the article because its a Baseball Prospectus Premium article. However, if you have a subscription and have yet to see the article let me know. You might be thinking to yourself, why does power lead to walks...here's an excerpt

One stathead cliché is that walks produce power. Although there is an important relationship between the two, I believe it is actually the other way around: power produces walks. In the very rigorous, multivariate regressions that I’ve done as part of PECOTA, I have found that isolated power and batting average are both favorable predictors of walk rate, but the reverse isn’t true: walk rate doesn’t predict power.

The article had graphs and statistics showing what he believed to be true, and it is certainly something I will look into as the season begins.