.BlueJays' Rowdy Tellez can and will help guide Vladimir Guerrero Jr. learn first base. One imagines that would be a little awkward. But Tellez says it’s quite the contrary. (via ArdenZwelling)
TORONTO — The funny thing about an intrasquad game is that every event is both good and bad for the same team. For instance,is off to a hot start with three home runs through the club’s first two games. That’s a good sign for Toronto’s offence. But three pitchers the Blue Jays will be relying upon to get outs during the regular season gave them up. That’s not so great.
“I’m bettering them and they’re bettering me because they’re telling me what I’m doing wrong and I’m helping them when they don’t execute their pitches. It’s just everybody being a good teammate.”crosses the diamond to pick up first base and, one assumes, eat into Tellez’s playing time. There will be a steep learning curve for Guerrero Jr. as he picks up a position he’s never played before, making the help of those with experience there — like Tellez — crucial to his progress.
Conventional wisdom might suggest you’d regularly sit Tellez against left-handed pitching, but he demonstrated in a small, 126-plate appearance sample last season that he isn’t necessarily overmatched against southpaws. Tellez hit .270/.317/.513 in that exposure to lefties, putting up a 113 OPS+.
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