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MLB Spring Training Flops It's Not Too Early to Be Concerned About

Oh, we really shouldn't be wringing our hands over bad spring training performances. But sometimes, well, it's just too hard not to.

At roughly the midway point of Major League Baseball's 2016 exhibition season, there's no shortage of bad performances to choose from. And while many of them can and should be ignored [nods in the direction of Paul Goldschmidt], we're going to focus on 10 in particular that are worth fretting about.

These 10 performances involve players either continuing a trend of underwhelming play or showing real signs of underwhelming play to come. Or both. And for the most part, they've occurred over reasonably large sample sizes. By spring training standards, of course.

We'll begin with the bad performance that is least worth worrying about and end with the one that is most worrisome.

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