Minor League Rosters

Rome rotation:

5/4: Bryce Elder
5/5: Tanner Gordon
5/6: Ricky DeVito
5/7: Jared Shuster
5/8: Alan Rangel

That's a pretty interesting rotation outside of Rangel. I'm kind of interested in Tanner Gordon. Good numbers in Danville in 2019, big guy who had good numbers at Indiana, too. DeVito is a guy that has been on some of our prospect lists also.
 
CJ9 said:
Kinda weird Jared Johnson isn’t in Rome or Augusta. Longenhagen had him in our top 25 prospects and said he’d touched 100 recently.
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Likewise strange that Backstrom isn’t in Augusta.
 
clvclv said:
Also wonder if he might be being kept back at instructs to play some LF to increase his versatility.
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Seems like a big ask, given his size.

Meanwhile: given this unprecedented new minor-league travesty of a system, I wonder what—if any—news we'll receive about guys like Backstrom or Johnson (both of whom I expected in low-A) or Kadon Morton (whose retention in instructs makes some sense). If the team had better beat writers, I'd fret less; but given the new regime of secrecy below low-A, some of these guys are likely to be impossible to follow for a while.
 
CJ9 said:
Rome rotation:

5/4: Bryce Elder
5/5: Tanner Gordon
5/6: Ricky DeVito
5/7: Jared Shuster
5/8: Alan Rangel

That's a pretty interesting rotation outside of Rangel. I'm kind of interested in Tanner Gordon. Good numbers in Danville in 2019, big guy who had good numbers at Indiana, too. DeVito is a guy that has been on some of our prospect lists also.
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If and when he makes it to the major leagues, he will automatically be sworn into the Council of Elders.

PS--Not seeing Spencer Strider (4th round-20202) anywhere either. Curious to see how Jesse Franklin V does. Odd to have a letter as one's last name.
 
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So, do I take it, with the re-organizing of the minor leagues, it doesn't mean less players entering the system, but those entry-level players will no longer be playing competitive baseball, and instead be at some alternate-site/extended spring training type of situation?
 
Nerfherders said:
So, do I take it, with the re-organizing of the minor leagues, it doesn't mean less players entering the system, but those entry-level players will no longer be playing competitive baseball, and instead be at some alternate-site/extended spring training type of situation?
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That is how it has been explained, yes.

Though, they're also planning to permanently shorten the draft (I believe to twenty rounds?), so going forward there will also be fewer players entering the system.
 
Nerfherders said:
So, do I take it, with the re-organizing of the minor leagues, it doesn't mean less players entering the system, but those entry-level players will no longer be playing competitive baseball, and instead be at some alternate-site/extended spring training type of situation?
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I believe there will still be rookie leagues in Arizona and Florida. I'm not sure about the Dominican Summer League. I think there is a cap on the number of players a team can have under contract (I thought I read 150 early in the whole discussion of minor league contraction) so you probably won't see teams with more than one entry in the complex leagues. In addition, there will be "partner" leagues where non-drafted players will play as free agents and try to catch on with major league organizations.
 
Y’all heard of MiLB.TV? 40 dollars for the whole season, no black outs, and you get every AAA, AA, and most A games.

Could be worth looking into.
 
CyYoung31 said:
Y’all heard of MiLB.TV? 40 dollars for the whole season, no black outs, and you get every AAA, AA, and most A games.

Could be worth looking into.
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Never have been able to get the app on my regular TVs - only on my PC/phone/laptop.

Has that changed?
 
jpx7 said:
Likewise strange that Backstrom isn’t in Augusta.
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My first thought when he wasn't on the Augusta roster was "wow, I can't believe they put him in Rome already." I couldn't believe it when he wasn't there either.
 
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