BRADENTON, Fla. -- Growing up playing wiffle ball in the back yard, Colin Moran hit against a lefty, his brother Brian. When he went to high school, he hit against lefties. In college, he hit against lefties, and he continued to do so in the minor leagues throughout his development.
But once Moran came to the majors, he was more or less immediately turned into a platoon player, facing mostly right-handed pitching.
"It's definitely something in '18 I had to adjust to," Moran was telling me about becoming a platoon player. "I couldn't complain whether I was playing or not. We had a good team with super-talented players."
So it was a bit of a culture shock to see Moran driving line drives and home runs in a batting practice thrown by new first base coach Tarrik Brock.
"It was good to see the way the ball was coming off [the bat]," Derek Shelton said of Moran's reps against Brock.
Brock is, you guessed it, a lefty.
That could be a sign of things to come in 2020.
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