That said, maybe I’m thinking of Tony Batista, but I thought Tatis had a history of mauling AAA pitching and falling flat in the bigs.

Still, nice to have some RH power for the bench.

The issue of defense, though, is one that you can begin to draw conclusions about at this stage. I’m really happy we have some bats — I just wish we had some that went with gloves. Baseball isn’t football — except for pitchers, everyone is a two-way player. If you start getting into a situation where you’re constantly trying to teach guys who are too slow for first base how to play left, etc., that’s a red flag. That’s why guys like Milledge and Gomez were so good, and why we were able to parlay them into solid major leaguers. If it turns out that none of them can even play first (I thought I read that Evans was a decent fielder at first, but that could be a constructed memory), you’re right to hope that some team makes a mistake and thinks it can get by with all hit, no field. Teams tend not to appreciate to importance of defense at first base (that, or they don’t have the luxury. With solid hitters at third, short and center, we just might).

In other words, at this stage of the game, I want to see if these kids are performing, rather than obsessing over the tools they do or don’t have.

Not saying it will happen, but you can’t have too many defensive liabilities out there giving up extra bases and extra outs.