Buffalo starts the minor league season tomorrow, Friday. They start at home in what you would not call baseball weather. New Hampshire and Vancouver start a week later. Dunedin starts a day before NH and Vancouver as they do not play on Easter Sunday. The complex league starts in May.
The Buffalo roster seems to be set. Grant Rogers will start game one. It is not clear who the other starters will be. CJ Van Eyk, Lazaro Estrada and Adam Macko have both started and relieved. Ricky Tiedemann is on the roster and his role too is not clear. Chad Dallas, back from TJ, should be one of the starters. In general the roster has a lot of older players. There are just four active pitchers with a birthyear in the 2000's. Tiedemann was born in 2002 while Macko, Dallas and Hayden Juenger are all 2000 babies. That means that all the other pitchers are 26 or above. The hitters are not quite as old. Rule 5 pick Hedbert Perez is the youngest at 22. Jon Clase, Yohendrick Pinango, RJ Schreck, Josh Kasevich, Josh Rivera and Brandon Valenzuela are born in the 2000's. All of those hitters mentioned have questions hanging over their ability to become major leaguers, 2026 will be a big year for all of them. We don't know when the Jays will announce the other rosters. Usually they wait until a day or two before opening day. Here's hoping for a successful year.
The Buffalo roster seems to be set. Grant Rogers will start game one. It is not clear who the other starters will be. CJ Van Eyk, Lazaro Estrada and Adam Macko have both started and relieved. Ricky Tiedemann is on the roster and his role too is not clear. Chad Dallas, back from TJ, should be one of the starters. In general the roster has a lot of older players. There are just four active pitchers with a birthyear in the 2000's. Tiedemann was born in 2002 while Macko, Dallas and Hayden Juenger are all 2000 babies. That means that all the other pitchers are 26 or above. The hitters are not quite as old. Rule 5 pick Hedbert Perez is the youngest at 22. Jon Clase, Yohendrick Pinango, RJ Schreck, Josh Kasevich, Josh Rivera and Brandon Valenzuela are born in the 2000's. All of those hitters mentioned have questions hanging over their ability to become major leaguers, 2026 will be a big year for all of them. We don't know when the Jays will announce the other rosters. Usually they wait until a day or two before opening day. Here's hoping for a successful year.
