It was just one spring start, the first of several to come. But these games that are meaningless in the big picture could be of some consequence to Roki Sasaki.

The Diamondbacks are changing another aspect of their pitching deployment, altering the way they game-plan for opponents.

While starting pitcher is only one position, it's basically half the game, so your approach there requires greater care than everywhere else. And yet ... I couldn't be less stressed about it this year ...