Dee Gordon went a combined 1 for 3 in the Dodgers’ two intrasquad games Sunday and Monday. (Getty Images)

If Alex Guerrero and Dee Gordon weren’t the Dodgers’ preferred candidates to man second base this year, they wouldn’t be on the 40-man roster. Sure, Chone Figgins, Justin Turner, Brendan Harris and Miguel Rojas are in camp as non-roster invitees, and that’s a testament to Guerrero and Gordon’s relative inexperience at the position.

Some of the NRIs might eventually have outstanding Cactus League seasons, but Guerrero and Gordon are getting the first crack. That was confirmed Sunday and Monday, when Guerrero and Gordon played all seven innings at second base over the Dodgers’ two intrasquad games.

Each did a little something to impress. Let’s start with Gordon, who drove the second pitch he saw from Hyun-Jin Ryu on Sunday over the right-field fence.

“I was looking for a triple, to be honest,” Gordon said of the home run. “I hit the ball a lot harder than I used to. It shows from time to time.”

Gordon later flied out to right field against Ryu in his second at-bat. Monday, he patiently fouled off several pitches from Dan Haren before ultimately striking out — another good at bat with a bad result.

The 25-year-old said that many of his at-bats during the Winter League seasons — he batted .348 in the Dominican, .471 in Puerto Rico — ended in line drives. It’s hard not to attribute the increase in power to Gordon’s new weight: 172, up from 159 last year.

Would that home run have been a warning-track fly ball a year ago?

“Honestly, I don’t even know,” Gordon said. “I didn’t hit but one [home run] last year and it wasn’t very deep. I have no clue. I’m just going to put a good swing on it. That’s what I do.”

Gordon is out of minor-league options. In theory, that only decreases his margin for error in 2014 — a season in which he’ll try to play a position he never manned professionally before last year. Gordon also played some center field over the winter for the first time and could be used there as a backup. The health of the Dodgers’ outfielders, Guerrero’s development curve, andYasiel Puig‘s progress in center during spring training all could factor into where Gordon spends most of his time in the field this season.

That’s a lot of variables and maybe a lot of pressure. Gordon said he feels none of it.

“My goal is to get on an airplane to Australia,” he said. “That’s it.”