So I think there are three guys who could’ve earned that and there was no wrong decision by them.First Base | Second Base | Third Base | Catcher | Left Field | Centerfield | Right Field | Starting Pitcher | Relief Pitcher ATLANTA BRAVES STARTER: Dansby Swanson Orlando is playing awesome right now, too. We talked to each other during camp, we said, ‘Look, if it’s me or if it’s you, it’s not going to matter because we know, 1) I love you and know how good of a player you are, but 2) you’d have earned it.’ So we feel like we did really well. We talk on a daily basis whether we’re at the field or not. Shewmake said of his friendship with Grissom: “We have a great relationship. As of right now, that’s what they decided to go with and we respect their decision. He has the experience, so I think that’s what we’re going with right now, the experience. “Vaughn had a great camp,” Shewmake said. His focus will be on continued offensive growth. Shewmake will play mostly second base, since the team already knows he’s excellent at shortstop, but he says he’ll handle both positions. In the meantime, the friends will work together in the Gwinnett middle infield. Perhaps a door opens for Grissom and Shewmake later in the season. Eventually the balls will be hit over there, over there, whatever the question marks are, but I’m sure that they’ll come in this time.” So it’s just like I said, it’s an experience thing. Whatever the play’s written, that’s what we’ve got to solve. So it’s all about just reacting and just like reacting to what’s given. There are so many plays that haven’t even developed in the right way, you know, I don’t want to say question marks, but there are so many things in game that - the opportunity hasn’t been there, because balls can be hit 1,050,000 different types of ways. “There are still so many plays that I haven’t even had yet. It’s just picking up the ball and throwing it over and trying to think about it too much. “But I just feel like just still playing baseball. “Just all around, and I feel like just repetitions and just slowing the game down,” he said. The AJC followed by asking Grissom how he feels he’s progressed defensively. So no one’s really out there unless you’re with the coaching staff or with the boys. Sometimes it’s just what they heard from someone who heard something from someone else. But a bunch of people who’ve probably never played baseball or didn’t make the baseball team, ended up writers or whatever it is they’re doing. “I don’t listen to sheep, know what I’m saying? If Wash (third-base coach Ron Washington) was telling me those things, I’d listen and read it. “They probably can’t play defense, so … ‚” he said. The AJC asked Grissom about those who criticize his defense. There were mixed results in spring, with Grissom making some flashy plays but also showing why he’s a work in progress. At 6-foot-3, he’s already considered an unconventional shortstop. He said he’s willing to play left field and second base – which is what he handled during his MLB-debut stretch last season – but shortstop is the focus.ĭefense is the common knock on Grissom’s game. Now, Grissom will play mostly shortstop in Gwinnett, getting reps as he tries to develop defensively. “Just more for a mindset thing and just putting myself in that situation where, yeah, I felt like I was the guy,” Grissom said when The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked if he felt he’d be the Braves’ shortstop during spring training.
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