Marlins

Hanley Ramirez is the undisputed SS in Florida right now with the demotion of Robert Andino to AAA.

Both players were have very good springs, but Ramirez was better and a more important propsect. Those are two facotrs no player can overcome.

Spring numbers are tricky, so I question how applicable they are to the regular season especially for a rookie. Afterall, winning is not the prime focus of the March games. Once the competition level ratchets-up, will Ramirez "regress" or will he show a Robinson Cano- or Chien Min Wang-like ability to maintain his minor league performances?

On SB-potential, he could go into the low teens. Something in the high single digits feels a little closer to the truth.

Joe Girardi is planning on playing Mike Jacobs versus lefties. I find this refreshing as Jacobs won't learn how to do it unless he does it. The statheads won't though, and they predominate the baseball commentariat right now.

It will be interesting to see how quickly sample size is disregarded in favor of the position Jacobs cannot hit lefites and therefore should be platooning.