Last night I wrote that Andrew Lambo was having problems in a drill where the infielders were skipping balls in the dirt, trying to get them past him. The drill was done once again today, and Lambo looked much better. A key difference between the two days was that yesterday players were throwing as hard as they could, and throwing wild intentionally, trying to skip a ball past Lambo. As I mentioned, Travis Ishikawa handled the same drill well, so it wasn’t impossible.
Today’s drill had the two first basemen simulating actual first base moves. They ran over to the bag and waited for the throw, rather than standing on the bag like yesterday. The players were also throwing as if they would throw to first base, aiming to one hop the ball when Lambo got to the bag. As I said, the results were much better today, and I got some video below, which includes one really nice pick from Lambo on the fourth throw.
Here is a photo of Clint Hurdle and Jeff Branson watching Lambo taking ground balls, rotating with Ishikawa.
In non-Lambo news, here was catching prospect Wyatt Mathisen taking a few swings in the batting cages.
Charlie Morton doing his throwing program this morning.
Jim Benedict giving some instruction. Wandy Rodriguez is doing his throwing program in the same picture.
