Winning Jobs

Since we're nearing the end of spring training and jobs are being won, here's just a quick update of some of those prospects who've stood out this spring culled from the Baseball America's newsletter (BTW, if you don't have a subscription you should). Sorry I'm only listing batting averages but I'm lazy and didn't wan't to go grab something more sophisticated.

TM  PLAYERS                          AVG

FLA Willingham, Josh lf  ........   .452

ARI Jackson, Conor 1b  ..........   .447

ATL Jurries, James 1b  ..........   .435

CLE Dubois, Jason rf  ...........   .408

SD  Barfield, Josh 2b  ..........   .392

ATL Diaz, Matt lf  ..............   .364

CWS Anderson, Brian cf  .........   .344

WAS Zimmerman, Ryan 3b  .........   .342

LAA Napoli, Mike c  .............   .333

LAD Martin, Russell c  ..........   .333

FLA Ramirez, Hanley ss  .........   .328

Interesting that former Cub Jason Dubois has had a quietly good spring and although I believe he'll start in the minors, he seems primed to be take advantage of injuries and slow starts. Matt Diaz, formerly of the Royals, also continues to hit as he always does and obviously could never have helpd the Royals...nope.