I like Chris Duffy

There's a good article about the Duffster in today's PG. Apparently he's spent most of the last five weeks at Pirate City in Bradenton, rehabbing that torn hammy like mad. It seems that the trainers found something odd in the way that he leaned while running which contributed to the tear, meaning that he's been re-learning how to run since January 8th.

According to Duffy, he's been timed at the same time around the bases that he clocked in with before his injury, so I suppose things are going well (though it's very early). All in all, I'm just happy to see a young guy so enthusiastic about being a Pirate. I've read too many stories about Oliver Perez doing no arm work at all in the offseason or Jose Guillen getting trapped in the Dominican without a visa to not be at least a little encouraged by reading about someone who actually worked really hard in the offseason.