We were able see a different wrinkle in how Paul Molitor runs a camp when the team went over rundowns, relay throws and pop ups on Monday.
Instead of having a group of players on each field, the entire team assembled at Hammond Stadium to take part in the drills
``My thought process was to get everybody on the same field," Molitor said. `Almost as important to be an observer as it was to be a (participant), especially for some of the young guys."
There was a lot of action, and a lot of yelling as players communicated about who should catch the ball. This way, the younger players could see how an established player does it.
Torii Hunter cracked up everyone during the rundown drills when, while taking a lead off of third base, yelled, ``You ain't getting on one throw, none of you pitchers!!"
One popup fell between a group of four players, including Trevor Ploufffe Josmil Pinto.
``I thought the rundowns and the popup priority went very well," Molitor said. ``Only had one popup that I had any issue with. We had a catcher try to outprioritize a corner infielder, which it should be in reverse. The cutoffs and relays weren't 't quite as smooth as I had hoped. Some of those were because we didn't 't have all the bodies due to the flu thing. We had to slow that down a little bit. That wasn't perfect but there was a lot of good things there.
``We communicated priorities for the outfielders for cutoffs and relays as far as communication, getting the ball to the infielder. The infielder, obviously, it's alignment, it's communication, it's being ready to throw and making sure you understand who can throw and how far you've got to get out there and being in the right place. That's going to need a little bit more work, but I thought the other areas went well."
