When the team hasn’t announced a deal but the player has a locker at the Spring Training clubhouse in Arizona, does he have a deal? That’s what we know about Paul Maholm, who’ll be in his tenth year and has a lousy W-L record to show for it. On the other hand, if you’d pitched for the Pirates for seven years between 2005 and 2011, you’d have been hard-pressed to do much better.
Billingsley thinks his Tommy John surgery has given him an entirely new arm. He’s throwing 80mph off a mound and won’t try curveballs till the end of February.
Mattingly says Kemp probably won’t play in Australia; he hasn’t yet run outside.
Dee Gordon has been practicing at second base and in the outfield.
Update: From Camelback Ranch today:
They're here. #Dodgers #SpringTraining pic.twitter.com/Swtk6b62Bl
— Camelback Ranch (@camelbackranch) February 9, 2014