I got up before the crack of dawn Wednesday to fly to Arizona in time to get to an afternoon game, and ended up watching the Oakland Athletics host the Cleveland Indians in Mesa to try to catch a handful of young pitchers of note. Oakland won the game 3-2, and here's what I saw:

• Cleveland right-hander Danny Salazar failed to complete two innings Tuesday, looking like his (good) 2013 self in the first inning and then like his (bad) 2014 self in the second, an outing that can't give the front office a ton of confidence about his development. Salazar has No. 1 starter stuff, sitting 93-97 mph with a hard splitter at 84-86 mph and slider at the same velocities. He breezed through the first inning, although it was power over command, but when Billy Butler smoked a hanger over the left field wall in the second, Salazar began to come apart at the seams, rushing through his delivery and getting more cross-body, losing what little command he had in the process.