There are a few teams that arrive in spring training, with most roster decisions settled.

There are some players who arrive knowing where they'll be, but every team needs to know how the pieces fit.

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Welcome to In the Bullpen with Mark Dewey.

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In case you missed last week's episode of In the Bullpin, which was the first episode of the 2025 season, I spent the episode expounding on the joy of spring training.

And I mentioned that one of the components of this joy is hope.

Hope for individual players, hope for an organization, hope that this will be the year for

my team.

Another aspect of the joy of spring training that I did not address last week, at least not

directly, was the joy of competition in spring training.

And this past weekend, every team played at least one game, the first game of their spring

training season. All teams in Arizona and Florida are now into the spring training game

schedule. But as they play these games, it's not really about wins and losses.

It's about the competition for a roster spot, or maybe a particular spot on the roster.

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