CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Bryson Stott is on the move again.

He moved from field to field on Wednesday at Carpenter Complex, where he joined 58 other players for the beginning of a Phillies Minor League minicamp. He hit, he fielded and he ran.

Stott rarely remains in one place for long. He divided 487 plate appearances last season between High-A Jersey Shore, Double-A Reading and Triple-A Lehigh Valley. He got 119 more plate appearances in the Arizona Fall League. He jetted to Hawaii afterward for a well-earned vacation with friend and NL MVP Bryce Harper. And he even spent a little time at home in Las Vegas, but he got antsy quickly.

“I was like, 'I don’t want to do this anymore,'” Stott said. “'I want to go.' My mom always tells me I get to one place for a month and I want to go.”

Where will Stott go next? He is the Phillies’ No. 2 prospect and the No. 97 prospect in baseball, according to MLB Pipeline, so he has options. Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski told Stott in the fall to come to Spring Training prepared to win the Opening Day job at shortstop, igniting an intriguing and somewhat unexpected competition with veteran incumbent Didi Gregorius, who struggled in 2021.

“He was pretty straightforward, telling me what he told me,” Stott said about Dombrowski. “I just want to come here and play my game and do what I need to do. … Obviously, you have that goal and to hear it and know you’re in that mix is pretty awesome. I’m not going to change anything I do on an everyday basis. Just go about my business and see what happens.”

Stott put himself in this position because of a strong 2021. He slashed a combined .299/.390/.486 with 16 home runs and 49 RBIs at Jersey Shore, Reading and Lehigh Valley. And he hit .318/.445/.489 in the AFL.

It was a confidence booster, both offensively and defensively. There have been questions about Stott’s ability to stick at shortstop, but the Phillies believe he will play there, at some time in the not-so-distant future, if not on Opening Day.

That would be a gift for an organization that has used 19 different shortstops since it traded Jimmy Rollins to the Dodgers in December 2014. That group includes everyone from Freddy Galvis, Jean Segura and J.P. Crawford to Ronald Torreyes, Asdrúbal Cabrera and Pedro Florimón.

“Yeah, absolutely,” Stott said when asked if he thinks he can win the job. “You always love competition and you always think you’re going to win, and you never want to be scared of anybody or do anything different because somebody is watching or somebody isn’t watching. So I’m just going to go out and see what happens.”

Stott has shown his versatility, too, so it's not out of the question that he could see time at third base or second base.

“If I have to move over, it is what it is,” Stott said. “I just want to do anything I can do to get to Philadelphia and help that city and that team win, so whatever it may be -- if it’s short or anywhere else, it’s obviously not up to me.”

Short, second, third. Triple-A, big leagues. Stott is on the move again. Where he starts is the only question.