Well, after spending 29 hours in the car over two days, I arrived in the Phoenix area on Saturday night. The drive was boring, fun, tiring, gorgeous, hot, cold and just about anything else you can think of. For the last two days (I’m writing this on Monday afternoon/evening) I’ve spent nearly six hours a day watching the minor leaguers on the back fields during workouts and in the games and I’ve seen some good things and some not-so-good things, but let’s focus on the good things.
Jesse Winker is a stud, plain and simple. On Sunday afternoon he was playing with the Triple-A team on the back fields and in the two at-bats I saw, he looked every bit the top prospect that everyone seems to think he is (myself included).