If you thought the hardest thing players had to do during Spring Training was learning to time 95-mph fastballs after a winter away, you'd be wrong. Turns out: It's sliding. Something about running as fast as you can before hurling yourself to the ground is remarkably hard for ballplayers to figure out until they've had a few weeks to get sorted again.
Vlad Guerrero Jr. had some trouble, and D-backs Minor Leaguer Buddy Kennedy practically dragged himself across the ground to reach second base against the Angels on Saturday. If you've ever wanted to see how a slug would play baseball, well, this is it.
You know things have gone wrong when this is what it looks like when the play is over:
Suffice to say, this is probably not Kennedy's midseason sliding form. Ranked 26th in the D-backs system last year, Kennedy is the first player since Mike Trout to have been drafted out of Millville High.