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• Porter said first baseman Japhet Amador will make his Grapefruit League debut in one of the split-squad games the team has scheduled on Saturday. Amador, who was late reporting to camp because his wife was having complications with her pregnancy in Mexico, was signed out of the Mexican League last year.

Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter.
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