I went out to the Lee County Sports Complex this morning and there was not much going on. There were a couple of players doing some special work with a couple of coaches but when I left around Noon there were no other Twins players working out. Not sure where everyone was.
I wandered off to the minor league side where there was more activity but still a relatively small group of pitchers going through fielding drills. I watched for awhile and decided that I had enough and wandered over to my car. As I was putting my camera equipment away I heard a loud bang on the top of my car, what the heck? It turned out one of the players had hit a long foul ball that hit my car. Fortunately it caused no damage but it did attract a lot of attention from bystanders. A Twins employee saw it happen and picked up the ball that had rolled about 10 yards away and gave it to me saying “here is culprit that hit your car”.
I left a few minutes later and exited the back way onto Plantation Boulevard. Right after I made a right turn on to Plantation a long home run ball from one of the adjacent fields came flying over the fence and netting and bounced in my lane about 20 yards in front of my car just missing my car. Had I been about a second or two quicker a ball would have hit my car for the second time in less than 5 minutes. What the heck is up with that? Of all the times I have gone to the complex my car has never even been close to being hit and here it almost happened twice in 5 minutes. I am sure the players got a kick out of it but I didn’t have time to look and see.
That is my excitement for today. The good news is that exhibition games start tomorrow. I was able to pick up a schedule of the minor league games that will be played at the complex and a first copy of the Twins Minor League Spring Training Roster. There are a handful of players on the roster born in 2004, my goodness. We will take the week-end off and go back again next week.