OPENING DAY ROSTER 2019 (including ILs)

[rico43]

2019 BRAVES OPENING DAY ROSTER1

PITCHERS

63 Jesse Biddle
51 Shane Carle
26 Mike Foltynewicz (IL)
54 Max Fried
45 Kevin Gausman (IL)
64 Luke Jackson
33 A.J. Minter (IL)
15 Sean Newcomb
56 Darren O'Day (IL)
67 Wes Parsons
61 Chad Sobotka
49 Julio Teheran
-- Josh Tomlin
48 Jonny Venters
38 Arodys Vizcaino
66 Bryse Wilson
65 Kyle Wright

CATCHERS
25 Tyler Flowers
16 Brian McCann

INFIELDERS
1 Ozzie Albies
17 Johan Camargo
20 Josh Donaldson
5 Freddie Freeman
7 Dansby Swanson

OUTFIELDERS
13 Ronald Acuna
8 Charlie Culberson
11 Ender Inciarte
22 Nick Markakis
14 Matt Joyce

(Total: 40)

[BeanieAntics]

Early moves: Sanchez, McCreery, Parsons promoted as part of the 40-man (eligible for playoffs, FWIW).

Miguel Socolovich has opted for free agency. We hardly knew ye. Not sure when the official list of FAs comes out.

Do we have any highly regarded prospects who will need to be added this year to prevent rule 5 poaching? I haven't kept up with it as much as I did last year. I don't think we do considering most of our highly regarded guys have been in the system for less than 4 years, but I could be wrong. Weigel maybe?

Edit: Just looked it up and we still need to add Alex Jackson, Weigel, Ynoa, and Demeritte if we want to protect them. I'm not really worried that much about Ynoa and Demeritte, but I could see a team taking a shot at Jackson or Weigel if we fail to protect them.

[Chico]

Do we have any highly regarded prospects who will need to be added this year to prevent rule 5 poaching? I haven't kept up with it as much as I did last year. I don't think we do considering most of our highly regarded guys have been in the system for less than 4 years, but I could be wrong. Weigel maybe?

Edit: Just looked it up and we still need to add Alex Jackson, Weigel, Ynoa, and Demeritte if we want to protect them. I'm not really worried that much about Ynoa and Demeritte, but I could see a team taking a shot at Jackson or Weigel if we fail to protect them.

Weigel will undoutebly be protected. Jackson has a good chance to be if he's not traded. I don't see Demeritte being kept around with Culberson and Camargo around the next couple of years at least. Nobody would select Ynoa

[Horsehide Harry]

Weigel will undoutebly be protected. Jackson has a good chance to be if he's not traded. I don't see Demeritte being kept around with Culberson and Camargo around the next couple of years at least. Nobody would select Ynoa

Somebody will select Ynoa. The rest I agree.

Ynoa showed signs of coming on at the end of this season. he has a big arm. A team would take him and put him out as a reliever and see if he could survive as a 2 pitch long man on a bad team.

[Super]

Somebody will select Ynoa. The rest I agree.

Ynoa showed signs of coming on at the end of this season. he has a big arm. A team would take him and put him out as a reliever and see if he could survive as a 2 pitch long man on a bad team.

Ynoa hasn't made it above low-A. I severely doubt he gets selected. Carrying that kind of guy on a 40-man isn't beneficial.

[clvclv]

Ynoa hasn't made it above low-A. I severely doubt he gets selected. Carrying that kind of guy on a 40-man isn't beneficial.

Carrying "that kind of guy" can certainly be beneficial - especially if you expect several arms further up the ladder to be traded or cut loose (which I'm sure most do). There's no doubt someone will take him, and creating room for him will be easy - you just don't protect Sanchez. There's less chance that someone poaches Sanchez, and Ynoa certainly has higher upside.

[jpx7]

Ynoa hasn't made it above low-A. I severely doubt he gets selected. Carrying that kind of guy on a 40-man isn't beneficial.

I don’t know, I tend to think any guy with a live enough arm might be poached and last-manned in a bullpen—it’s definitely a different calculus, relative to minor-league level achieved, than with position players. The question then becomes: is Ynoa’s arm live enough to be, more likely than not, drafted; and, if so, how to weigh that against other forty-man needs.

[CyYoung31]

Who is Fat Ben?

[UNCBlue012]

Who is Fat Ben?

Ben Chase, he's co-editor for Call to the Pen and Tomahawk Take. He's a not as in the fold as some of the mainstream analysist, but he has solid connections. If you couldn't tell, Enscheff isn't a fan.

[Enscheff]

There isn't a shortage of guys like Ynoa, but it only takes one organization to see him as a future contributor.

Seeing someone “as a future contributor” is one thing...giving him a spot on the 25 man roster for a full season is another thing altogether.

Sometimes I think folks don’t quite understand how the R5 draft works.

[Horsehide Harry]

Seeing someone “as a future contributor” is one thing...giving him a spot on the 25 man roster for a full season is another thing altogether.

Sometimes I think folks don’t quite understand how the R5 draft works.

Giving him a spot on the 25 doesn't make any sense for a competing team. However, a team tanking, rebuilding and looking 3-4 years out, it would be low risk. Draft him, bring him in for ST and see if he can be a 2 pitch long reliever that you hope to build into a 3 pitch starter in 2-3 years. If you start the thought process by saying wins and losses don't matter, in fact losses are preferable, then the sanity of many decisions changes. I think many teams have seen that, with the rules like they are, you either contend or tank and rebuild. Floating around in mediocrity is wasted time.

[nsacpi]

One downside to putting a guy like Ynoa on the 40 man too early is you can burn through those three option years before he is ready for the majors. I'd rather wait until he is ready for AA before putting him on the 40 man roster.

[bravesfanMatt]

If players were commodities then drafting Yona and sticking him on the bench as the 25th guy makes sense. But taking him and losing a year of development possibly more doesn’t. Plus he will then be forever on your 40 man roster and you will have to contend with that every year. All for a guy you hope figured it out. Yona will not get taken in R5. Not unless a team sees something that no one else sees.

[bravesfanforlife88]

didn't see it posted but the braves signed free agent RHP Royber Salinas to a minor league deal and also signed C Denzel Bryson to a minor league deal

Don't know anything about either of them

Edit: Royber Salinas is a 17 year old pitcher out of Venezuela while Denzel Bryson is a 18 year old catcher out of Aruba

[Enscheff]

Giving him a spot on the 25 doesn't make any sense for a competing team. However, a team tanking, rebuilding and looking 3-4 years out, it would be low risk. Draft him, bring him in for ST and see if he can be a 2 pitch long reliever that you hope to build into a 3 pitch starter in 2-3 years. If you start the thought process by saying wins and losses don't matter, in fact losses are preferable, then the sanity of many decisions changes. I think many teams have seen that, with the rules like they are, you either contend or tank and rebuild. Floating around in mediocrity is wasted time.

Again, as I suggested earlier, go find examples of teams doing this. SD tried to stash a couple guys on the 25 man very recently. Go look at how those players worked out.

The discussion is “will Ynoa be taken?”, not “would it make sense for a losing team to take him?”.

[rico43]

Non-roster invitees now included with 40-man. Up soon; uniform numbers!

[rico43]

McCann gave Culberson a nice watch for giving him his number 16 back according to DOB. Don't know the brand because buying a sub to The Athletic is not exactly compelling my credit card to fly out of my wallet to learn these kind of tidbits.

[rico43]

March 8 moves:

Optioned: Gohara, Weigel, Ynoa

Assigned to minor league camp: Anderson, Muller, Wentz, Contreras, Morales, Jenista, Waters

Roster still at 37 with 13 NRIs.

[rico43]

Per Gabe Burns, camp bodies now at 39 with demotion of Andres Blanco. Will keep page 1 roster updated.

[rico43]

Confirmed Minter and Gausman to IL (formerly DL).