Batter's Box Interactive Magazine - Minor League Rosters

The minor league season starts on Thursday but the rosters have been finalized. Teams are flying in to their cities and ready to meet the media and season ticket holders before the games begin.

Two teams have released their rosters so far.

Rosters:

Buffalo Bisons
AAA International League

	Probable Starters
C	Mike Nickeas
1B	Dan Johnson
2B	Chris Getz
SS	Munenori Kawasaki
3B	Andy LaRoche
LF	Kevin Pillar
CF	Anthony Gose
RF	Brett Carroll
DH	Jared Goedert
Bench	Matt Tuiasosopo

	Ricardo Nanita
	Jon Diaz
	Jack Murphy


SP1	Marcus Stroman
SP2	Ricky Romero
SP3	Kyle Drabek
SP4	Liam Hendricks
SP5	Sean Nolin


Bullpen	Neil Wagner
	Marcus Walden
	Mickey Storey
	Chad Jenkins
	John Stilson
	Rob Rasmussen
	Ryan Tepera

I thought Brad Glenn would be here as the right fielder but I assume he is back in New Hampshire. The Jays have gone with more internal candidates for the bullpen than some of the free agents they signed in the winter.

New Hampshire Fisher Cats
AA Eastern League

	Probable Starters
C	AJ Jimenez
1B	Gabe Jacobo
2B	Jonathon Berti
SS	Kevin Nolan
3B	Andy Burns
LF	Jonathan Jones
CF	Kenny Wilson
RF	Michael Crouse
DH	Ryan Schimpf
Bench	Brad Glenn
	Peter Mooney
	Aaron Munoz
	Yusuf Carter
	Andy Fermin


SP1	Aaron Sanchez
SP2	Deck McGuire
SP3	Casey Lawrence
SP4	Austin Bibens-Dirkx
SP5	Scott Copeland


Bullpen	Tyler Ybarra
	Tony Davis
	Randy Boone
	Gregory Infante
	Scott Gracey
	Richard Bleier
	John Anderson

The AA lineup and starters are as expected, few surprises here other than the missing minor league free agents.

DUNEDIN

L   Norris, Daniel - 21
L   Boyd, Matt - 23
R   Hernandez, Jesse - 25
R   White, Ben - 25
R   Cole, Taylor - 24


R   Barnes, Daniel - 24 
L   Girodo, Chad - 23
R   Browning, Wil - 25
R   Sikula, Arik -25
L   Nieves, Efrain - 24 *
R   Champlin, Kramer - 24
R   Jackson, Justin - 25 *
R   McFarland, Blake - 26


Chung, Derrick - 26
Reeves, Mike - 23



Hobson, KC - 23
Lopes, Christian - 21
Guerrero, Emilio - 21
Pierre, Gustavo - 22
Patterson, Kevin -25

Flores, Jorge - 22



Smith, Dwight - 21
Pompey, Dalton - 21
Knecht, Marcus - 23
Newman, Matthew - 25

Not too many surprises here. Mike Reeves jumps over Lansing but we have to see what impact the Kratz promotion had on the rosters. Christian Lopes did get the 2B job and Chris Hawkins is missing.

Lansing Lugnuts
A - Midwest League

	Probable Starters
C	Santiago Nessy
1B	Matt Dean
2B	Dickie Jo Thon
SS	Dawel Lugo
3B	Mitch Nay
LF	Ian Parmley
CF	DJ Davis
RF	Carlos Ramirez
DH	Derek Loveless
Bench	Justin Atkinson
	Jorge Saez
	Jason Leblebijian





SP1	Kendall Graveman
SP2	Jeremy Gabryszwski
SP3	Alberto Tirado
SP4	Jairo Labourt
SP5	Tom Robson
	Chase DeJong
	Adonys Cardona
Bullpen	Jimmy Cordero
	Brady Dragmire
	Griffin Murphy
	Alonzo Gonzalez
	Roberto Espinosa
	Scott Silverstein





DL	Roberto Osuna
	Seth Connor
	Phil Kish

As I expected Santiago Nessy is back in lansing and Dickie Thon will be playing 2B. I thought Jacob Anderson might get a promotion but he did not.

The starting rotation has two tandems, Labourt/Tirado and DeJong/Cardona. Tom Robson gets his own slot. Shane Dawson did not make it.

I now have the official rosters from the Jays. There is a DH listed for each team. The DH's are Jared Goedert; Ryan Schimpf; Kevin Patterson; and Justin Atkinson.

The following players are listed as "medical" which I assumes means they are injured:

Liz, Radhames 	        Antolin, Dustin 	Opitz, Shane 	   Osuna, Roberto 
                	McDade, Mike    	Meyer, Andrew 	   Kish, Phillip  
Korecky, Bobby 	        Fermin, Andy     	Munoz, Aaron 	   Conner, Seth 
Tolleson, Steve		                        Rankin, Pierce 	
		                                Sweeney, Kellen
                                                Baligod, Nick

In addition Sean Ochinko and Brian Van Kirk are listed with (SUS) after their name which I assume means they are still under suspension.

Posted by Gerry on Monday, March 31 2014 @ 02:00 PM EDT.

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PeterG - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 02:29 PM EDT (#283978) #

Thx for this. Regarding the Bisons, I very much doubt that Carroll will start in the outfield ahead of Tuiasosopo or are you slotting the latter as DH. Would like to see Jenkins starting and Romero at a lower level....not surprised that Hendricks is in the rotation however.

85bluejay - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 02:36 PM EDT (#283980) #

Every member of that AAA BP looks ML serviceable and with a fragile ML rotation, the jays could really use the Tor-Buff shuttle to rest BP guys - too bad that so many of the BP guys in Toronto don't have options. Not surprised that Hendricks is in the rotation, likely the guy for emergency starts/long man in Toronto - the Todd Redmond role this year. Tyler Ybarra is a guy to watch in the NH BP, could make it to T.O by Sept.

85bluejay - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 02:46 PM EDT (#283982) #

Disappointed in Jacob Anderson not making Lansing, not a good for his prospect status and with the next pick in 2011 the Red Sox took Henry Owens - Ouch!

With the putrid Goins in T.O , I was hoping the Jays would try Burns @ 2nd - perhaps he can't handle it defensively.

Maldoff - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 03:16 PM EDT (#283988) #

Any word on the Dunedin roster?

John Northey - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 03:22 PM EDT (#283989) #

Dunedin's roster is at http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=t_ros&cid=424&stn=true&sid=t424

John Northey - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 03:28 PM EDT (#283990) #

Liam Hendriks is interesting. In the minors he has 0.4 HR/9, 1.6 BB/9 7.6 K/9 lifetime. However in the majors it is 1.7 HR/9 2.7 BB/9 5.8 K/9. Those HR went through the roof and his control went from great to OK. He missed his age 19 season...I'm assuming Tommy John surgery as that would explain missing a full season. Still, just 25 this year he could become something useful. If not, well, he was just a waiver wire claim.

Mike Green - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 03:29 PM EDT (#283991) #

That Dunedin roster is from last year. I am pretty sure Dwight Smith Jr. and Dalton Pompey will be there this year.

bpoz - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 05:25 PM EDT (#284012) #

Where is Mike McDade? Does anyone know?

Gerry - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 06:38 PM EDT (#284020) #

I added the Dunedin roster. I will be back later with some analysis and details of the players who are injured.

Gerry - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 08:31 PM EDT (#284032) #

All the rosters are now posted. Who are the major names missing from a roster?

First we have some minor league free agents such as Brian Moran, Shawn Hill and Mike Broadway.

The biggest missing name is Chris Hawkins.

There are many relievers missing such as Dayton Marze, Tucker Donahue and Matt Dermody.

cybercavalier - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 09:35 PM EDT (#284037) #

On missing names, Sean Ochinko is tagged as suspended and Steve Tolleson as on 7-day DL. A question, I realize Canadian catchers are abundant: Martin, Nickeas, George Kottaras, John Suomi, Chris Robinson are all very close or MLB catchers already. Nickeas struggles offensively in Buffalo; In particular could, say, Suomi or Robinson takes Nickeas' roster space in Buffalo if having one Canadian than the other makes minor difference ?

mendocino - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 09:59 PM EDT (#284040) #

Brian Moran was traded to Ana for International cap space

Mike Broadway is listed with signing with the Giants Jan 24 on his milb profile

Hawkins, Donahue & Dermody all listed as active on milb profile.

Marze listed as voluntarily retired

Gerry - Monday, March 31 2014 @ 10:34 PM EDT (#284044) #

Thanks Mendocino

Lylemcr - Tuesday, April 01 2014 @ 11:43 AM EDT (#284064) #

"Disappointed in Jacob Anderson not making Lansing, not a good for his prospect status and with the next pick in 2011 the Red Sox took Henry Owens - Ouch!"

I keep on thinking that I don't think it is our drafting that is the issue. I think it is our ability to develop players is the bigger issue. If we drafted Owens and Boston drafted Anderson, we would be complaining about how we should have drafted Anderson.

Gerry - Tuesday, April 01 2014 @ 11:56 AM EDT (#284066) #

I checked on some missing players. Chris Hawkins and Shane Dawson are both in extended, organization decision. Dawson is understandable, there was a lot of competition for starting jobs, he was injured last year, and he is still young.

Hawkins is a surprise as he has played two years in Lansing. I can only guess that they are trying to change his swing again and it needs time to get it to work.

finch - Tuesday, April 01 2014 @ 01:51 PM EDT (#284076) #

Kellen Sweeny?

uglyone - Tuesday, April 01 2014 @ 02:40 PM EDT (#284083) #

Dissappointed that they put 24yr olds jimenez and wilson back in AA. They're much too old for that level. Hope they're promoted quickly if they start well.

I'm a little more understanding of 23yr old burns starting in AA after he took a while to adjust to that level last year....but he did adjust, and should be promoted quickly if he picks up where he left off too.

And by quickly i mean after the first month, not midseason.

Nice to see reeves skip past lansing - but where are his classmates dantzler, frank, and dermody? All in extended?

Also thought they might skip thon past lansing and give lopes another year there, but i don't mind that swap.

Turner - Tuesday, April 01 2014 @ 03:29 PM EDT (#284086) #

Sweeney is in Dunedin

Pitchers (13 + 1 DL)
Barnes, Danny
Boyd, Matt
Browning, Wil
Champlin, Kramer
Cole, Taylor
Girodo, Chad
Hernandez, Jesse
Jackson, Justin
McFarland, Blake
Meyer, Ajay (DL)
Nieves, Efrain
Norris, Daniel
Sikula, Arik
White, Ben

Catchers (2 + 1 DL)
Chung, Derrick
Rankin, Pierce (DL)
Reeves, Mike

Infielders (7 + 1 DL)
Flores, Jorge
Guerrero, Emilio
Hobson, K.C.
Lopes, Christian
Opitz, Shane (DL)
Patterson, Kevin
Pierre, Gustavo
Sweeny, Kellen

Outfielders (5)
Baligod, Nick
Knecht, Marcus
Newman, Matt
Pompey, Dalton
Smith, Jr., Dwight

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140401&content_id=70615090&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_t424&sid=t424

Gerry - Tuesday, April 01 2014 @ 04:56 PM EDT (#284089) #

Sweeney is on the DL, see the main thread above, at the bottom, for a list of players out for medical reasons.

Dantzler is not listed but he too has a medical issue that held him off the opening day lineups.

dan gordon - Wednesday, April 02 2014 @ 03:41 AM EDT (#284102) #

I see on Rotoworld that the Jays have signed 3B/1B Juan Francisco who hit 18 HR's for Milwaukee and Atlanta last year in about 350 AB's. Has 32 career HR's in about 700 AB's. Strikes out a ton, though, and isn't a great defender. Only 26. He'll report to Buffalo, at least initially.

Richard S.S. - Wednesday, April 02 2014 @ 05:31 AM EDT (#284104) #

Francisco is a good defender, but not a great defender and wasn't much good last year. He has three years of control remaining (super-two) if tendered a contract this fall. He's filler in AAA for the time being. Useful pickup.

cybercavalier - Wednesday, April 02 2014 @ 03:59 PM EDT (#284140) #

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I see on Rotoworld that the Jays have signed 3B/1B Juan Francisco who hit 18 HR's for Milwaukee and Atlanta last year in about 350 AB's. Has 32 career HR's in about 700 AB's. Strikes out a ton, though, and isn't a great defender. Only 26. He'll report to Buffalo, at least initially.

Francisco is a good defender, but not a great defender and wasn't much good last year. He has three years of control remaining (super-two) if tendered a contract this fall. He's filler in AAA for the time being. Useful pickup.
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Useful pickups are signed to play in Buffalo. Could Toronto send coaching to amend or fix personal performance issue in Buffalo, say a hitting coach to improve Francisco and Tuiasosopo swings ? In other words, is there a designated hitting instructor, say the roving minor league hitting instructor, who is in charge of coaching particular batter(s) in higher minors (Buffalo and New Hamsphire) ?

aarne13 - Friday, April 04 2014 @ 01:01 PM EDT (#284233) #

As per Matt Eddy- Jays release 2010 3rd rd pick Chris Hawkins and Rule 5 pick Scott Schuman

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