Practice game lessons learned

We had a practice game against the Braves Friday night that went for three innings, and here are my observations:

• The Braves have more pitching depth than we do right now. I'll do what I can to develop the 3-4 promising arms on our team.
• The Braves don't have more hitting depth than we do. If our pitchers throw strikes we should be competitive in games.
• We need to improve on throwing the ball. This includes our fielders' throwing fielded grounders to first, our outfielders throwing the ball into the infield and our catchers throwing the ball back to the pitcher, as well as to the bases.
  I've suspected this to be the case, and this is why I have worked on throwing, just throwing, so much in practice. This is why we have throwing contests almost every practice, why we have incorporated throwing into almost every practice activity. With the weather expected to warm up, I expect our Monday practices to feature a lot of throwing.
• We have made progress on knowing what to do with the ball when it's hit to us, now we need to work on that, as a team, so it's automatic. Really good baseball players know what they are going to do with the ball if it's hit to them. Our guys did that sometimes/

Today's the first regular game. Our best pitcher will start the game. The Red Sox have been talked up to the point that some might wonder if we are playing the big Red Sox from Boston instead of the little Red Sox from Granger. I guess we'll see.