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With backup options like the speedy Matt Rogers capable of replacing Vance in center, Stoeckel could be squeezed out of the starting lineup altogether. So he understands the need to build upon a strong offseason...
...catchers have already found extra playing time by shedding the tools of ignorance and slotting into the lineup at different positions. Kramer is getting reacquainted with his first-baseman’s mitt—“I hadn’t really played a lot since high school,” he says—and Casey and Roth are both prospective designated hitters...
...never played outfield before,” Vance recalls. “Then I look up at the lineup card, and I’m playing centerfield and leading off the game...
Vance, on the other hand, is a leading candidate to fill the power shortage in the Harvard order, which lost several big bats to graduation after last season. In designing prospective lineups, the coaching staff has been torn between putting his explosive bat in the middle of the lineup or his burning speed at the top. Though he went deep only once in 2006, Vance found the gaps with regularity, tallying 10 doubles and five triples—and the hitters coming up behind him were more than happy to drive him home...
...choice, I’d be playing shortstop every day,” Vance says. “But if I’m out there in center, so be it. We’re just trying to put the best lineup out there...