GLENDALE, Ariz. >> Courtney Hawkins, a Top 100 prospect in the Chicago White Sox organization and a mountain of a man at 6-foot-3 and 245 pounds, tried to check his swing with two strikes, but couldn’t hold up. He left the batter’s box shaking his head at that irresistible fastball high and tight.
There, in the blink of an eye, was a glimpse at the potential in Jordan Schafer’s left arm.
Schafer is, in one sense, like any minor-league player wearing a Dodgers uniform. He’ll have some good moments, some bad, and until the good pound the bad into submission, he’ll be somewhere on the back fields of Camelback Ranch working it out.