TAMPA, Fla. — Around 12:30 p.m., as the groundskeeper waited, Gio Urshela and Gleyber Torres stopped their workout and began to pick up baseballs from around the field, then gathered up their bats and gloves and headed to their cars. They have to clear out of the way so the field could be ready for the big high school game in just a few hours.
This is big league life in the lockout.
“We’ve been working out here [all offseason],” Urshela said after taking infield and hitting on the field. “We’ll just keep doing it. We want to play, we’re ready to go. We can’t just be sitting on the couch. We have to keep ourselves ready.”
