Jack O'Callaghan

And he can make a really nice Major League career out of just being a hitter.

So I rule him out when I think about defense.

Say Suzuki played, what, 30 to 32 games last year in the outfield at all last year?

We know that Matt Shaw has never played the outfield.

Conforto is a flyer, right?

We don't even know if he's going to make the team.

So it's a no-call right now.

now and I don't know that there's somebody who moves ahead who moves ahead of I guess say in terms of like playing the outfield but we all know that that can be an adventure at times what I love about it is that this feels like

Actual competition.

You know, if you live by the words, iron sharpens iron, this seems like an opportunity for Craig Council to get a comprehensive look at the players on this team.

Now, I know Seiya Suzuki's going to be spinning a chunk of what would be spring training at the World Baseball Classic, but...

Let's be honest, that's real competition these days.

This World Baseball Classic is not like the original examples of what you had when you talked about international competition.

The US has been passed up, you could argue, by Japan in terms of top of the top.

And so I want to know what they glean from Moises Ballesteros' and Matt Shaw's performances defensively more than anything else.

That's what I want to know.

That's probably my biggest question in spring training is, where are those two guys going to actually play when they're in the lineup?

Well, Consul said yesterday he will both play first base and catch during spring training.

So they already know he can DH.

You don't have to practice that, right?