KEEPERS: Spring training performers

We hear every March that spring training numbers don't matter. And while this might be true for the majority players, there are always a handful of skilled, growth-age players for whom the numbers look like a performance uptick or breakthrough, the latest step in a turnaround, or exactly what the doctor ordered to win a job. These aren't your run-of-the-mill proven commodities, but names who many scouts and observers have loved, often with talent and skills sets that for whatever reason haven't yet broken through at the MLB level.

Are they all sure things? Of course not -- and too many owners have been burned two many times by the younger versions of these names to risk much on another gamble. But most of them are enjoying their best...

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