Five spring training trends you might have missed

Spring training doesn’t count, right?
The wins, losses and ties sure don’t, but every now and then something happens on a back field in Florida or Arizona that baseball hasn’t seen before. It might be a trend, a fluke, or a subtle signal of change. These things don’t stand out in box scores, but they’re more important than the box scores.
Here are five interesting wrinkles you might have missed from the past month.
1. SLOW PLAYS
The Red Sox brought back eight of the