Manager Buck Showalter said Tuesday at the Winter Meetings that if the season started today, Pearce would be in right field, Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com reports. Pearce busted out last season in a big way with 21 homers and a .929 OPS, and while he's a big swing-and-miss guy who's never really showed great contact before 2014, with Nick Markakis gone he may have a chance to take over a full-time role and run with it.