Phillies Sring Training Roster Roundup: Hitters

All the starting spots of the hitters on the Phillies are about wrapped up, but the bench spots will be up for grabs this spring training. Listed next to every player will be their age.
Projected starters:
1B - Ryan Howard - 27
2B - Chase Utley - 28 - The $85 million man
SS - Jimmy Rollins - 28
3B - Wes Helms - 30
LF - Pat Burrell - 30 - hey, just give it a chance
CF - Aaron Rowand - 29 - doesn't he seem older?
RF - Shane Victorino - 26
Catcher - ???
Catcher is an interesting position because the starting spot is up for grabs between 3 guys:
Rod Barajas - 31 - The aged veteran
Carlos Ruiz - 28 - The young-ish farm system product
Chris Coste - 33 - The aged sophomore
From what Charlie Manuel has said it seems that the job is Coste's to lose. Barajas is back-up material and Ruiz has yet to live up to his expectations.

Now for the bench guys currently on the roster (listed with age and bat):
Abraham Nunez - 30 - S - Veteran infielder who will be ready to play 3B if Helms falters at all. In reality he wasn't a bad short term replacement for David Bell, but his bat is just not good enough.
Danny Sandoval - 27 - S - The young infielder who should fill in at SS, 2B, and even 1B when those guys need a break.
Chris Roberson - 27 - S - Outfield sub, needs to play better
Michael Bourn - 24 - L - Outfield sub, young, but still needs to play better
Jason Werth - 27 - R - Outfield, signed this offseason, missed all of 2006 with a wrist injury
Gregg Dobbs - 28 - L - 1B, 3B, outfield?, acquired this offseason

Now for the 'non-roster' invitees. I got these names from the Phillies official site.
Randall Simon - 31 - L - The big ol' power hitter that's not really a power hitter, he could see time as a pinch hitter, probably not in the field
Brent Abernathy - 29 - R - 2B, he last played for the Twins in '05, spent '06 in AAA for the Brewers (useless fact: he was on the gold medal olympic team in sydney in 2000)
Andrew Beattie - 28 - S - OF, listed as from Philadelphia though went to high school down in Clearwater, spent the last year in AAA for the A's and Brewers
Brennan King - 26 - R - 3B, spent last year in Scranton, has yet to see the majors
Ron Calloway - 30 - L - OF, saw some time in the pros with the Expos in '03 and '04, spent last year in AAA for the Red Sox
Lou Collier - 33 - R - OF, he's been around for a long time

There also 5 catchers invited, who I didn't bother looking up because they aren't going to be making the time most likely, but here are their names anyway:
Tim Gradoville - 26
Jason Hill - 29
Dusty Wathan - 33, his picture has an scary resemblance to Chris Coste
Jason Jaramillo - 24, spent most of last year in AA, I think the Phils really like him
Lou Marson - 20, spent last year in A (Lakewood), still very young so could see big leagues some day

Also, don't let me forget the outfielder recently signed by the Phils:
Karim Garcia - 31 - L - he has been around for quite some time, he signed a minor league contract, but has an outside shot of making the roster, he's at least been invited to spring training.

That's it for the hitters. 13 or 14 of these guys will be on the opening day roster. The rest of them hopefully end up on our minor league teams which were just rated as the 2nd to worst in the league, that's great.
Hopefully later this week I'll do the pitchers, that's going to be a little harder I think, we'll see if I'm up to it.

If anyone has anything to add, correct, comment, etc leave a comment or e-mail me. Start getting your hopes up Phillies fans, now is the time to be optimistic.