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uring spring training and how they might help their teams this season (through Wednesday):JACK FLAHERTY Matt Kemp Jersey , ST. LOUIS CARDINALS, RHPThe 23-year-old struck out nine over four scoreless innings in his most recent start, including seven in a row. He was among the National League’s top rookies last season, going 8-9 with a 3.34 ERA in 28 starts with 182 strikeouts in 151 innings.ALBERT PUJOLS, LOS ANGELES ANGELS, DH/1BThe three-time Most Valuable Player started with seven hits in 12 at-bats, including a double and a home run. The 39-year-old’s production has declined over the past several seasons and he hit .245 with 19 homers in 117 games last year, a season cut short by knee surgery in August.FERNANDO TATIS JR., SAN DIEGO PADRES, INFThe 20-year-old is batting .318 with seven hits in 22 at-bats, including two homers http://www.dodgersfanproshop.com/authentic-max-muncy-jersey , one double and one triple.CHRIS ARCHER, PITTSBURGH PIRATES, RHPHe pitched hitless innings while striking out four in his first outing Tuesday. The 30-year-old, a two-time All-Star, was 3-3 with a 4.30 ERA in 10 starts after he was acquired from Tampa Bay on July 31.AARON JUDGE, NEW YORK YANKEES, OFThe 26-year-old started 6 for 15 (.400) with three homers and three doubles. Judge has hit 79 homers over the past two seasons, including 27 last year despite playing in just 112 games because of a broken right wrist.CHARLIE MORTON, TAMPA BAY RAYS, RHPCharlie Morton, projected as one of three starters on a team that uses openers http://www.angelsfanproshop.com/authentic-zack-cozart-jersey , has pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings over two starts. The 35-year-old agreed to a $30 million, two-year contract as a free agent.CHANCE SISCO, BALTIMORE ORIOLES, CThe 24-year-old had four homers in his first 12 at-bats. He struggled as a rookie last season, hitting .181 with 66 strikeouts in 160 at-bats. A trio of three-run homers - two of them off the bat of Alex Avila - highlighted a good day all round.Record: 11-13-2. Change on 2018: -0.5. 5-inning record: 11-11-4.It’s probably a fair assessment to say that sitting back and waiting for a three-run homer is likely to prove a successful tactic, providing you hit them about every third inning. So it proved for the D-backs at Camelback Ranch today, anyway. Catcher Alex Avila hit the first such blast in the fourth inning, then followed up with another three-run shot two innings later. And LF-CF Alex Thomas capped things off with the last of the trio in the ninth inning. Making that one particularly sweet? His dad is the White Sox conditioning director, Allen Thomas, and was in the opposite dugout when his some went deep.Needless to say, those at-bats alone would have been more than enough to win most games. But the D-backs managed 13 other hits today Chris Young Jersey , apart from those three. Outside of Avila, there were also two-hit games for 3B-2B Ildemaro Vargas, 1B Christian Walker, RF Steven Souza Jr and LF-RF Matt Szczur. Avila now leads the Diamondbacks with three home-runs this spring, is batting .304 and has an OPS of 1.066. #SuckItHaterz. Here, for your viewing pleasure, are both of his bombs. Hopefully it carries over into the regular season. For what it’s worth, Avila had as many home-runs and more RBI this afternoon, as he had in his first forty-four games combined last season. through June 17...With this offensive outburst, the pitching didn’t need to be very good to get the W. However, it was. Luke Weaver was a late scratch Cam Bedrosian Jersey , and so Taylor Widener got his first start of spring. He was everything you could have wanted and more: he retired all nine White Sox batters faced, with a trio of strikeouts. Robby Scott kept it going with a perfect fourth, Archie Bradley got all five men he faced, and Yoan Lopez struck out his batter to give Arizona six perfect innings: 18 up, 18 down. That ended when the first batter Lopez faced in the seventh homered, but after Sam Lewis and Kevin McCanna performed mop-up in a winning cause, Arizona pitchers had faced only three batters over the minimum. All told, a very solid performance, just what we want to see as we head towards the end of spring training. It’s back to Salt River Fields tomorrow for the Angels and their newly-minted 0.43 Billion Dollar Man, Mike Trout. Merrill Kelly is the expected D-backs’ starter.