Syracuse, N.Y. -- Syracuse Mets manager Chad Kreuter gave a friendly tip to his players when they took cuts in simulated games at their alternate training site in Brooklyn last month.
When you’re done running up the first-base line, he’d tell them, hang a left, not a right. Kreuter knew that the real games were coming up, the ones where you have to run the bases, and he didn’t want them to fall into any bad (and embarrassing) habits.