Tito Dropping The Wisdom

In the midst of a discussion of Braves’ shortstop options, ESPN’s Terry Francona just said this:

↵↵We’ve all fallen into it in spring training, somebody has a great spring and it’s easy to fall in love with ‘em. But I think you’ve gotta go on track record, because you just open yourself up to make mistakes. There’s so many variables in spring training, and such a small sample size, that you can really get fooled.

↵↵This sort of thinking does make spring training less interesting. But it’s conducive to winning.

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