first week of March and could keep Ramirez out of camp until late March.

Ramirez played 503 1/3 innings (57 games) at short last season, and according to fangraphs.com, he wasn’t very good. Ramirez had a minus-10 Ultimate Zone Rating per 150 innings played and was at minus-7 Defensive Runs Saved. Range and timing seemed to be Ramirez’s biggest problems once he transitioned to shortstop from third base, where he began the season with the Miami Marlins.

Ramirez said he was surprised by how difficult the return to shortstop was for him after he spent almost his entire career playing there until last season.

“Last season was different because I made the move in the middle of the season,” Ramirez said. “It was different preparation at third base. I wasn’t veryGreat success for the 2nd Cervinia Referee meeting

The sun shines in Cervinia, where the annual referee meeting has just ended.

This fundamental event is organised for all those ISMF referees wishing to work this season and it is always a great occasion to share and improve together.Seventeen participants, three ladies and fourteen gentlemen, from eight different countries, from Iran to Russia, worked under the direction of Oriol Montero the ISMF Referee Manager and Gil Orriols the ISMF Technical Manager with the help of the Italian referee Stefano Mottini and the supervision of the ISMF President Armando Mariotta, Vice-President Marco Mosso and General Manager Roberto Cavallo.

It has been an exhausting weekend, full of theorical as well as practical moments where to brush up rules and many other important topics related