Springtime baseball can be tough in the Northeast. In the first few weeks of the season the Worcester Red Sox had numerous games postponed due to wintry conditions. As the WooSox return home manager Chad Tracy said that it's no coincidence that as the weather warmed up, so did the bats. "It's sunny out, we're going to touch 70 (degrees) today and tomorrow, little breeze, it feels wonderful. And I know it started in Rochester even for the guys like, it's no excuse both teams got a play in it but it can mentally grind you down when you're freezing. You know the entire game for two week span. So when it showed up last week, the guys were pretty pumped. The first time we walked out they were like this feels great. So got the bats going. Hopefully they keep going. But it does feel great to have this weather."

Many eyes in the baseball world are currently focused on the WooSox. Top prospects Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer are making their case to be called up to Boston. Tracy said the extra attention that these two bring to Worcester is great for the entire organization. "They made their made their appearance with about a month and a half to go a year ago and I guess like the following that came in with them was pretty significant. We always have a great media following here, always and great fan support but yeah it got larger when they came and we played very well down the stretch and were in contention so with them there plus that it was a lot of attention but certainly that comes with that, when you have high-quality players that are this close to the major leagues there’s going to be attention around it and they handle it great. So you know, it's good attention for them and the Red Sox. Good attention for the WooSox and drawing people into the stadium to watch these guys play."

As the WooSox opened their second home stand of the season Tracy is happy with the way his squad is coming together. The WooSox won five of six in Rochester and opened the home series with Syracuse with a win. Tracy, "It's good it's definitely turning and we had a great week obviously in Rochester, swung the bats great, threw the ball well, so we're trending. We had a lot of cold weather, tough conditions to play in that first couple of weeks and then finally towards the middle of last week it starting to get a little bit better and the bats are really turning, those were sluggish to start and then we're playing good baseball."