Time to start the Desmond Jennings watch

Be very excited. Desmond Jennings is absolutely tearing up AA. It is just a month, but wow...he leads the Southern League in extra base hits has an onbase over .400, is stealing bases, including home, and playing a solid CF.

It was enough to get Baseball America to drool over his potential back on Friday.

Here's some of what Ben Badler wrote:

Jennings has an excellent approach at the plate, which has led to his walks being nearly equal to his strikeouts the last two years. He stays balanced at the plate and keeps his head locked in, then has the hand-eye coordination to regularly put the barrel of the bat to the ball.

“Very good strike zone management,” Montgomery manager Billy Gardner Jr. said. “He doesn’t get fooled very often. He gets on a fastball good, he stays on the ball well and he uses the entire field to hit. He’s got some jump in his bat—the ball comes off his bat really well.”

With all that Jennings has done early in the season, perhaps his most exciting play came at Chattanooga on April 15. With Dodgers lefthander Scott Elbert on the mound, Jennings took off and used his explosive speed to steal home.

“He stole home plate, and I didn’t realize until I read some blogs the next day that it was Jackie Robinson Day,” Gardner said.

 Check out the whole article here: http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/?p=3589