Matt Harvey made his ST debut http://www.oriolesfanproshop.com/authentic-j.j.-hardy-jersey , and it was sterling"Ok to be up at the buttcrack of dawn and back at meetings until mid-afternoon. I don’t have time to pontificate. But I have enough time to assemble some shotgun-style links for you instead of forcing a DYI. I am here for YOU, so I got this. Here goes.Sip on these Make-Of-Them-What-You-Will-HaloLinks:A Little Bit Of Angels NewsOhtani making progress, taking swings from the cage.............Matt Harvey looked good. Mid to upper 90’s over 3 innings with only 1 run surrendered on only 2 hits..........Mike Trout’s rookie card, from all the way back in time to 2011, sells for a gob-smacking $186,000. I mean, after 7 whole years, how many of those things can there be? Well, it did come with an autograph..........MLB has rules against it, but Bryce Harper continues to recruit Mike Trout.....The Angels would like for that to stop.....MLB is going to look into it.....But Harper knows that the MLB lawyers are toothless on this.....So east coast media is so sophisticated that they can dismiss it all as weenie whining..........Ok. I have to pontificate here. I can’t leave this one unchallenged. Deadspin is on of those oh-so-sophisticated media outlets. They praise the Phillies by defining them: “Theirs is a team currently boasting what many others in baseball don’t have: a collection of good young players, a freshly signed young superstar, and a willingness to spend large sums of money on its roster.” Well, let’s see here. The Angels have Shohei Ohtani and Andrelton Simmons and Justin Upton(only just turned 31), to go with Jaime Barria and Michael Hermosillo and Tyler Skaggs and Andrew Heaney, all of whom comprise some pretty good young talent. And the LAA farm system rates every bit as good as that of the Phillies. Meanwhile Ubaldo Jimenez Jersey , the LAA young superstar is TWICE the player as that of the Phillies. And Arte Moreno was the 7th most willing spender of large sums of money in 2018 (while Philadelphia was 23rd), and is NOW the 5th most willing spender of large sums of money in 2019 (after all they did, the Phillies climbed up to only 13th)..........Come back to us, good version of Cody Allen..........Torii Hunter, Jr. Like father, like son.........Albert Pujols milestone watch, 2019..........Split squad today.......... Everywhere In BaseballRed Sox player suspended for PEDs. I know. Shocking.............This is different. Before managers get to exchange lineup cards prior to the game start, they have to exchange them first with the commissioner’s office. It’s all about sports gambling. This kinda makes that pre-game thing irrelevant, no?..........At least one (unnamed) MLB manager is pissed about this..........Oh, I did not know that Dallas Keuchel’s agent was Scott Boras. Now I get it..........As if the MLB All-Star roster engineering ain’t silly enough, MLB is looking to silly-fy the silliness..........Rob Manfred still trying to find a cover story for Free Agency that sticks..........Bullpen catchers are people, too. (I wonder. In some games, don’t they get more work that the actual game catcher?)..........Holy shit. Khris Davis is even more amazingly consistent than we all knew. If only .247 for a batting average was a good thing.........The Yankees are trying to be more like the Tampa Bay Rays..........The Dodgers might be pressing their luck with Clayton Kershaw..........Part 2 of The Ringer’s treasure trove of scouting reports.......... The Duffle BagDouble-bobble.............Luke Heimlich found employment in baseball..........(h/t UniWatch) Matt Shoemaker still getting the name humor........... Sorry, but that’s all I got time for. See you tomorrow! FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — It’s early in spring training, time to get the new mitt ready.Or is it?For the World Series champion Boston Red Sox Joey Rickard Jersey , some like the feel of new leather, some like it old. Some are superstitious and don’t like change and others don’t worry about that even after a great season.“A new glove every year,” reigning AL MVP and three-time Gold Glove winner Mookie Betts said Saturday morning at the team’s spring training complex.But, is the right fielder a bit superstitious about changing after such a successful year?“No, they all catch the same,” he said, breaking into a grin. “It’s the operator.”Shortstop Xander Bogaerts agreed.“New year, new glove,” he said.World Series MVP Steve Pearce had a different thought. He’ll likely start the season with a new one if he’s broken it in on time but gave some thought to not changing anything after winning the title last fall.“I have them right here in my locker,” the first baseman said. “I’m bringing almost everything back I had last year.”But Pearce did say he changes when things aren’t going well.“Oh, for sure,” he said. “You play baseball, usually you’re superstitious. If I start out and I don’t like it, I’m not hitting or I’m not playing well, I’ll switch gloves.”When the Red Sox fired hats and gloves into the air before racing to mound to celebrate with left-hander Chris Sale after he fanned Manny Machado to defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers and end the World Series, Pearce http://www.oriolesfanproshop.com/authentic-j.j.-hardy-jersey , for one, thought a bit about whether he’d even get his glove back.“It was in the back of my mind, I was like, ‘Man, if I throw this up, I wonder how it will make it back to me,'” he said.Right-hander Nathan Eovaldi doesn’t like to change mainly because he likes the feel of his old one.“Same glove. I’ve had the same one since 2015,” he said. “It’s just comfort. I don’t do a good job breaking them in, so I just keep the same one.”Some players even take ribbing about whether they’ll need a glove. Two days ago, when Pearce, mainly known for his bat after Boston made him a midseason acquisition last year, headed out to take BP on a back field, a member of the team’s staff kidded him about not having a glove with him.“It’s spring training,” the staffer yelled. “Did you bring your glove? You having it shipped?”David Price, a 2012 Cy Young Award winner when he was with Tampa Bay, didn’t seem to care about the previous year’s success when choosing to go new or old Tim Beckham Jersey , but did say he’d be quick to change if things don’t go well.“I’ve got an old glove, but I’ve got a new one that I’ll start breaking in,” he said, sitting at his locker in a nearly empty clubhouse.“If I’m winning and throwing the ball well, I’m not going to switch gloves. If I’m not going to win, I’ll switch. I have no problem with it.”Eovaldi made sure he put his glove safely away, too, before racing in to join the Series celebration.“I was running in from the bullpen, so I saved it in a good spot,” he said.NOTES: Sale and Price threw side-by-side on a back field. “They’re locked in,” manager Alex Cora said. “The way they go about their business is impressive. They take pride in what they do and know they set the tempo for us” . Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez worked with left-handed starter Eduardo Rodriguez.