LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.--It's fashionable to dismiss the World Baseball Classic, which settles little about which country really is best at baseball. It deserves ridicule for being birthed as a marketing vehicle. It's not even very good for that because many of the world's best players, especially Americans, don't participate.
“I don’t think I faced a guy (throwing) over 92 or 93 mph in spring training here,” Freeman said. “There, every guy I faced was 95, 96. I think it’s only going to benefit you, for a position player.”
Freeman is back in the fold for the Braves, who need him to anchor the lineup again in 2017. He said his swing feels just "OK," at this point, good only five times out of 10 rather than the eight he wants.
"I’m seeing the ball great and that’s all I care about," he said.
“I'm not taking days off," he said. "I’ve got a World Series to get to.”
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