1.   Or the fact Florida high schools are permitted to conduct spring football camps that deliver him more finished products, they speculate.

2.   All seven are in major-league camp this spring.

3.   But after a strong spring camp last year, Zdenek had finally emerged.

4.   But Monday a somber sense of reality hit spring camps like a Dick Butkus open-field tackle.

5.   By the end of this week, spring camps will be in full swing.

6.   Carper is in spring camp agonizing over whether he should be a replacement player while Ausanio is home in Lake Katrine, N.Y., babysitting his two sons.

7.   Chatting behind a Hi Corbett Field batting cage Monday, Garcia recalled a spring camp in which eight players broke their legs while doing sliding drills.

8.   Cruz, who is starting his second full season as a professional, is having a strong spring camp with the Mariners.

9.   Damian Moss, the Australian left-hander who made a strong impression in spring camp before experiencing elbow problems, will undergo ligament transplant surgery next Wednesday.

10.   Daal came to camp last spring simply scratching for a chance to land one of the bullpen spots.