Frank Thomas says it's not easy being a DH in the spring - that without the usual access to things like videotape he has during the regular-season, all he can do is sit in the dugout between plate appearances and watch the game.
"Not even an exercise bike," Thomas said.
"There is no routine."
Thomas did take some satisfaction from the fact his first home run of the spring was to dead-centre.
"I need to get back to using all fields again," he said.
Thus speaketh the Hurt ...
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Jeff Blair has been writing about baseball since 1989 and has been covering baseball for The Globe and Mail since joining the paper in 1997. This is where he will present news, views and analysis about baseball, focusing mostly (although not exclusively) on the Toronto Blue Jays. Robert MacLeod, a Globe and Mail reporter for close to 30 years, is turning his attention to coverage of the Toronto Blue Jays and Major League Baseball after eight years following the trials and tribulations of the Toronto Raptors.
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