Yes, I know, its been a while. Truthfully, I didn’t know how I could handle making another blog entry after the recent troubles I’ve been experiencing. But I’m back to talk about perseverance. To start off the season this past spring, I was doing everything I preached guys. Staying confident, level-headed, and having a plan. [...]
It has been a while since my last post due to the fact that I no longer have internet access. During spring training we stayed in a very nice hotel and have since been moved to an even nicer apartment complex down the road from our complex. Unfortunately, our ethernet surfboard router thingy is not [...]
Posted by Kyle Pettoruto, University of New Haven – Hey guys, I know it’s been a few weeks. The grind of the regular season is picking up so I thought on this rainy off day I’d get the chance to share some ideas and experiences with all of you. When my college career began I [...]
Last year I got the invite to Extended Spring Training, the opportunity of a lifetime. It was a real chance to fulfill my goal of playing professional baseball. A year later, having to repeat extended is less of a thrill. This year, I had two short term goals for the 2011 Spring Training: stay healthy [...]
Michael Fabiaschi and I agreed to be roommates for this spring training last year with a few weeks to go in the 2010 Northwest League Season. Hailing from Torrington Connecticut and a graduate of James Madison University in Virginia, ‘Fabs’ was drafted last year in the 38th round by the Athletics and was a member [...]
Over the past year, give or take a few months, I have come to know many players both in the minor leagues and the big leagues from various organizations across the MLB. Each club is different, some enforce strict rules on curfew or implement heavy fines for misconduct. Others have quirky standards; For example the [...]
Today was a pretty exciting day out here in Arizona as I got my first chance to suit up for a big league spring training game against the Cubs at their stadium in Mesa. Over the past few weeks many guys have been funneling back and forth between minor league and big league camp and [...]
The weather here has been a little crazy as of late, mostly “cold”. I enjoy listening to my friends from Southern California, Nevada, and the DR talk about how chilly 65 degrees is while people back home tell me about the snow that fell the other day. Monday was supposed to be our spring opener [...]
Days have gotten a little longer with the commencement of Spring Training. My alarm wakes me up at 6:00am these days and baseball is usually over by 4:00 pm. Ryan Pineda is no longer my roommate because we moved out of the condo and into the team hotel. He is one of my good friends [...]
Today marked the first day I actually had to be at the complex in uniform. There was a schedule, I was assigned a group, and instead of having free reign to work on what I wanted to in order to prepare, the structure made it so my time was already accounted for. We spent time [...]
