Well, after I hyped the Gibson v. Nishioka battle, it never came about.
Nishioka's group left right before Gibson took the mound for his bullpen session. Instead, Gibson faced the M & M boys.
Mauer hit a couple pitches well and Morneau clobbered a long one off of Gibson, but the way everyone went to Gibson and congratulated him after his outing suggested that they like what they see from the righthander out of the University Missouri.
Morneau, by the way, hit several long ones during the coach-pitch phase of batting practice. He looks fine to me. You wonder when he'll jump up one day and say, `it's time to play in a game." It's gotta be his call more than anything.
Again, I must remind myself that concussions have their own timetable.
CUDDYER OUT
Michael Cuddyer won't play in any spring training games anytime soon because the wart that was supposed to be a non-issue has become an issue.
``Cuddy has a little foot problem so he backed away," Gardy said. ``We kept him off the field and we are going to see how he does tomorrow. That growth that he had taken off his foot has really affected him and got really sore so backed off today and we are going to know more tomorrow. If it continues to stay sore we are going to have the whole thing taken out.