What makes this article series different than what you’ll find in the official stat books is the inclusion of non-scheduled spring training games in the data (like Michigan, Venezuela and the Braves B Game). Today, I updated the chart to include Lutz, since he was tried in the OF earlier last week and Nimmo/Vaughn, who took official AB’s today. In other OF news, Valdespin finally got game time in the OF, making his spot on this list official now.
Venezuela beat the Mets 14-10 today in a game that saw Byrd and Cowgill pull ahead of the competition for the OF. Byrd smacked a three run homer as he leads OF candidates with 7 RBI’s this spring. Cowgill is making the case for earning a full spot in the OF with a 3-4 performance today including 2 doubles. He now has 5 during Spring Training and a .500 batting average.
Here are everyone’s updated stats:
| Name | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | K | 2B | 3B | HR | SB | AVG |
| Kirk | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.056 |
| Cowgill | 24 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.500 |
| Byrd | 19 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.421 |
| Brown | 19 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.158 |
| Duda | 19 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.158 |
| Baxter | 21 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.143 |
| Valdespin | 18 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.444 |
| Hoffman | 17 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.118 |
| Thurber | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 |
| Clark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 |
| den Dekker | 21 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.190 |
| Sabol | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 |
| Lagares | 16 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.188 |
| Puello | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.143 |
| Harris | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Lutz | 16 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.250 |
| Nimmo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 |
| Vaughn | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 |
