PEORIA, Ariz. — Nothing illuminates the mad-scientist makeup of Padres pitcher Yu Darvish more than conversations happening a few lockers away at the team's spring-training complex.
Rotation-mate Mike Clevinger stops an explanation of Darvish's freakish absorption of new information to say it sparked a question. As established arm Joe Musgrove considers the dizzying stable of pitches, he comes up with something to pick his teammate's brain about, as well.
When two established major league starters with 245 games and more than 1,220 innings between them scratch heads about the how's and why's of a peer, you take notice.
