An idea I’m mad I didn’t think to use as I was looking more at home run power and distance, but Jeff Zimmerman at Beyond the Boxscore takes a look at hitting spray charts for wrist injuries. As you might expect there is some pretty self explanatory pictures showing a huge shift for Ortiz who was hitting everything to the opposite side in the first two months of 2009. As usual this is not a full sign of health, but another reason to support the idea that Ortiz will be more like the second half of last year then the first.
Ortiz Spray Chart for first 2 months of 2009