Cavalry coming?

♦ July 28, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

Adrian Gonzalez has been out for several months and the Dodgers have not missed him a lick. He has been taking batting practice and will head out for a rehab assignment that should last at least a week to shake off the rust.  Adrian should be rejoining his teammates by at least mid – August.  He could prove to be an important addition to the team giving the Dodgers even more options than they currently have.

If the Dodgers decide to use Adrian Gonzalez in a platoon role they could:

Against RHP you could start Adrian at 1st, Taylor at 2nd, and Bellinger in LF, sitting Forsythe.  Against LHP, Adrian is the bench piece waiting to make a difference as a pinch-hitter.

If the Dodgers decide to use Adrian Gonzalez in a full time role that gets dicier. Bellinger has to play. The question would come down to either sitting Taylor, Fortsyhe, or Joc. Against LHP if Adrian plays, Joc is the easy sit with either Cody or Chris playing CF and the other RF. Forsythe should always play against LHP.

I know I’ve read that we don’t need Adrian and he has nothing to offer anymore. That may be correct but I think that this is short sided. Sure he’s an old first baseman who can’t hit left-hand pitching anymore and has a bad back.

But he has been rehabbing his back for two months, taken several shots and it is very possible that he might be healthy enough to be productive if used correctly.  We shouldn’t short change what Adrian could bring to the table.

Also, news has come that Andre Either has finally progressed to batting practice so it is also just a matter of time before Andre goes out on a rehab and rejoins the team. Unlike Adrian, it is going to be hard for Andre to find his way into any role. Mainly because of Adrian. If Adrian wasn’t around you could see Andre playing LF against RHP and using Taylor at 2nd and sitting Logan. But with Adrian coming back, Cody has to play LF against RHP which puts Andre as the first left handed pinch hitter on the bench.  Looking toward Sept you can see a role for Andre as a piece on the bench but that is about it.

 

More needs to be made of Morrow

♦ July 28, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

Much of the talk this year has centered around the amazing seasons that several Dodgers have had who started the year in AAA. That talk has always been about Cody Bellinger and Chris Taylor. For good reason.

But, Brandon Morrow would like to you know he is kicking ass as a 100 MPH throwing setup man and has done as much to solidify the Dodger bullpen as anyone not named Kenley Jansen.

Jeff Sullivan over at Fangraphs gives us the lowdown on Morrow.

I’m providing the link above not just because I’m going to grab a quote, but because it is a well-written article that if you are bothering to read this, you should read that because I’m just the fluff while Jeff is the guts.

Morrow’s average fastball is up 2.7 miles per hour. That’s the biggest increase in the major leagues this season, and it would count as the 13th-biggest increase over the past decade. Brent Suter is up 2.6 miles per hour, to 86.9. Morrow is up 2.7 miles per hour, to 97.8. Lately, he’s been throwing even harder than that. You could ask Dozier about that if you wanted to.

His arm strength having returned, Morrow looks electric again. But this goes beyond just his raw stuff. Morrow has also made progress elsewhere — as he’s gotten older, he’s matured into something of an extreme thrower of strikes.

Morrow was one of those inexpensive pickups this past winter that has all sorts of upside with little downside.  He always projected to be a great bullpen piece if he could simply be healthy, and now he is. It must be frustrating for an organization like the Padres who spent all the money on Morrow and got none of the benefits because of his numerous injuries only to see him excelling for the Dodger for peanuts.  The Dodgers acquired him in January and I briefly commented at the time how I liked this pickup.

Morrow almost made the Dodgers out of spring training but the numbers game (Sergio Romo) had him start the season in the AAA. Morrow did stuff, bided his time, got one callup and didn’t give up any runs in five games but still found himself back in AAA. Such is the Dodger depth.  His 2nd callup wasn’t expected to be for long either but when you don’t give up any earned runs over and over you get to stay.

Right now Morrow is an integral part of the bullpen and could be a key reason why the Dodgers aren’t busy bringing in another right handed bullpen piece. They got theirs.

Dodgers get their pitcher

♦ July 28, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

Well, not quite, but they did acquire a starting pitcher today. His name just wasn’t Yu Darvish, or Sonny Gray, or Justin Verlander. It was Luke Farrell and the cost was considerably less than Alex Verdugo. Actually, the cost was simply cost. The Dodgers paid cash for Farrell.

Farrell is 6’6, and was born June 7th, 1991 and was not among the Royals top 30 prospects in either 2016 or 2017 according to Baseball America.  Fangraphs did have this to say about Luke before the start of the year: 

Luke Farrell, RHP, 2.8 KATOH+ – Big (6-foot-6), smart (Northwestern), tough (has dealt with multiple tumors that required complicated biopsies) with good baseball bloodlines (his father is John Farrell), Luke’s fastball sits 90-92 with downhill plane, he has an average cutter and fringe curveball. He projects as an up-and-down arm without quite enough stuff to crack a full-time rotation spot, though you could argue his pitches have more projection than most 25-year-olds because of the developmental time he missed dealing with his health issues.

The Dodgers had scaled back their strange run of waiver pickups from 2015 but this one probably ranks with those.  At the very least he’ll provide depth to the AAA rotation until he is also waived.

 

Katoh from Fangraphs kicks things up

♦ July 28, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

Chris Mitchell over at Fangraphs has an experimental tool called Katoh that it he uses to do prospect rankings based on how much fWAR they would expect to generate over the next six years. I would really recommend reading the link above before checking out the list so you get a good idea of what Katoh is about.

For each player, KATOH produces a WAR forecast for his first six years in the major leagues. There are drawbacks to scouting the stat line, but due to their objective nature, the projections here can be useful in identifying prospects who might be overlooked or overrated.

Katoh has two columns below. The first Katoh column uses the statistical model plus incorporates the Baseball America Midseason top 100 list. The second column is strictly stat based. No scouting noise, simply production and whatever algorithm they are using to come up with their fWAR analysis.

If you look at the list and compare it to the general prospect lists you will find some Dodger surprises. For one, Alex Verdugo really shines here.  For Katoh he’s a top 5 – 10 prospect.  Willie Calhoun the same way, but that is to be expected because he’s not getting dinged for the lack of a major league position.

My favorites though are Brock Stewart, Keibert Ruiz, and WILMER FONT showing up. Neither Baseball America nor Major League Baseball had any of those three in their top 100 and I’ve been tooting their horns like Benny Goodman.  Edwin Rios also pops up on the stats only list.

You will have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see Font because I sorted this by MLB top 30 just so you could see how ignored Font has been this year.

In my next column, you will see that Keibert and Font are starting to get some play with another prospect list.  My island is getting crowded.

Many favorites simply haven’t played enough to have had any kind of sample size for Katoh to work with. Kendall, Heredia, White, May.

My only disappointment was in not seeing Dennis Santana crack the Katoh code.

ProspecName BirthDate AGE League Katoh + Top 100 Katoh Stats Only BA MidSeason MLB MidSeason RotoWireMidSeason
Walker Buehler 7/28/1994 23 AAA 3 (41) 6 (94) 1 1(13) 1 (40)
Alex Verdugo* 5/15/1996 21 AAA 1 (9) 1 (5) 2 2 (28) 2 (34)
Yadier Alvarez 3/7/1996 21 AA 3 3 (51) 3 (71)
Willie Calhoun* 11/4/1994 22 AAA 2 (24) 2 (15) 4 4 (70) 5 (91)
Jeren Kendall 2/4/1996 21 A 7 5 (85) 7 (112)
Yusniel Diaz 10/7/1996 20 A+ 5 6 (88) 11 (140)
Mitchell White 12/28/1994 22 AA 6 7 4 (85)
Keibert Ruiz 7/20/1998 19 A+ 4 (57) 3 (51) 8 6 (103)
Will Smith 3/28/1995 22 AA 10 9 8 (115)
Brock Stewart 10/3/1991 25 Majors 5 (71) 5 (88) 9 10 13 (201)
Gavin Lux 11/23/1997 19 A 11
Jordan Sheffield 6/1/1995 22 A 12 18 (315)
Starling Heredia 2/6/1999 18 Rookie 13 12 (187)
Dennis Santana 4/12/1996 21 AA 14
Omar Estevez 2/25/1998 19 A+ 15
Trevor Oaks 3/26/1993 24 AAA 16
Dustin May 9/6/1997 19 A 8 17 9 (119)
AJ Alexy 4/21/1998 19 A 18
Edwin Rios* 4/21/1994 23 AAA 4(70) 19 16 (283)
D.J. Peters 12/12/1995 21 A+ 20 10 (125)
Drew Jackson 7/28/1993 24 A+ 21
Oneil Cruz 10/4/1998 18 A 22 19 (342)
Imani Abdullah 4/20/1997 20 A 23
James Marinan 10/10/1998 18 24
Caleb Ferguson* 7/2/1996 21 A+ 25
Ronny Brito 3/22/1999 18 Rookie 26 20 (353)
Morgan Cooper 9/12/1994 22 27
Brendon Davis 7/27/1997 20 A+ 28 17 (303)
Carlos Rincon 10/14/1997 19 A 29
Kyle Farmer 8/17/1990 26 AAA 30
Wilmer Font 5/24/1990 27 AAA 6 (99) 7 (98) 14 (215)
Cristian Santana 2/24/1997 20 A 15 (266)

Befuddled Giants

♦ July 28, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

Last year around this time the Giants were in first place and the Dodgers were for the first time having to confront a rotation without Clayton Kershaw. Things didn’t look good and I even said they didn’t look good. Jon Weisman said no problem, and we know who was right last summer.

The Giants went into a skid and never recovered. The Dodgers got hot even without Kershaw. Both seemed inexplicable at the time.

On July 28th, 2016 the Giants were 59 – 43, sixteen games over .500. They had just traded for Matt Moore and Nunez to bolster the team. You would have thought that they would play better with the new players or at least around the same. Instead, they free fell and finished the season under .500 over their last 60 games going 28 – 32.  They still finished the overall season over .500 with a nice record of 87 – 75 and four games under .500 during a 60 game stretch could simply be an anomaly.

Headed into 2017 the Giants still had a nice quartet of starting pitchers with Madbum, Cueto, Shark, and Moore. They had addressed their back of the end bullpen issues by adding Mark Melancon. They still had a core of Posey, Belt, Crawford, and Pence. No one would think of them as world beaters but it did have the look of a competitive team.

Not so much.  40 – 63 is the 2017 Giant record on July 28th.  They are now 68 – 95 since last July 28th.  They are no longer fighting for the postseason they are fighting for the first draft pick with the White Sox and Phillies.

I’m not even going to address why they are this bad, I’m still in shock that a team that was 59 – 43 at this point last year are 68 – 95 since that point.

Good thing, Giant fans have three rings to wave around. That will get them through the next couple of years of rebuild.

Fantastic Font

♦ July 28, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

Font

Wilmer Font has done everything you could ask in 2017 to get a shot at some kind of major league role.  In most organizations, he would have gotten a few starts by now but in the deep Dodger organization, he bides his time behind a deep major league rotation.

With the injuries to Kershaw and McCarthy, he can start to see through a porthole but not yet a complete window.  Ryu and Hill are always on shaky ground when it comes to health and Alex Wood is no oak tree himself.

When the deadline passes, it is possible that Font will find himself further back in the depth chart if the Dodger acquire a rotation piece or in another organization that can take a chance on him.

This is what he has done in AAA OKC in 2017.

  • Leads the PCL in strikeouts with 147. 2nd is 114. Talk about a leadership role.
  • Leads the PCL in KK/9 for starters at 12.5. Next starter on the list is his teammate Fabio Castillo at 10.0
  • Is 4th among starters with a WHIP of 1.109. Just above Font was Marco Gonzalez who was just traded to the Mariners for their 2nd best hitting prospect Tyler O’Neil.

I understand Wilmer Font was not a real prospect entering 2017 but he has certainly pitched like one. Enough so that the Fangraphs experimental prospect tool called Katoh has Font now listed as a top 100 prospect. Of course he’s in the 90’s but still, he finally made a prospect list. Woo Hoo.

Here is a collection of his best games this year. Notice his last three starts.

Date          IP H ER BB SO GSc
2017-04-12   5.0 3  0  1 11  71
2017-05-03   5.0 4  3  1  9  55
2017-05-09   5.1 4  2  0  6  58
2017-05-15   7.0 2  1  1 15  83
2017-05-21   5.0 5  3  2 10  53
2017-06-02   6.0 2  0  1 10  77
2017-06-08   6.0 5  1  0  7  65
2017-06-14   6.0 3  0  1  7  72
2017-07-16   6.0 3  1  0  8  70
2017-07-21   7.0 7  2  1 11  65
2017-07-27   6.0 4  0  1  9  72

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 7/28/2017.

LAD already have eight players with double digit home runs

♦ July 27, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

It is only July 27th, but the 2017 wallbangers already have eight players with double digit home runs.

Rk   Pos              Name Age  PA HR OPS+
1     1B   Cody Bellinger*  21 342 28  144
2     RF       Yasiel Puig  26 365 19  107
3     SS     Corey Seager*  23 401 16  130
4      C  Yasmani Grandal#  28 318 14  107
5     LF      Chris Taylor  26 327 12  141
6     3B     Justin Turner  32 321 11  165
7     CF     Joc Pederson*  25 245 11  113
8     UT Enrique Hernandez  25 238 10  108

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 7/27/2017.

How does this compare to other teams in the 21st century?
2000 / 6
2001 / 7
2002 / 6
2003 / 5
2004 / 9
2005 / 5
2006 / 7
2008 / 7
2009 / 5
2010 / 4
2011 / 4
2012 / 4
2013 / 6
2014 / 5
2015 / 8
2016 / 8

Remember for every other year but 2017 that is a full season. The Dodgers still have Austin Barnes with six who might crack the list.

Reviewing MLB Top 30 LAD Prospects

♦ July 27, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

We have reviewed Baseball America top 30 LAD prospects and Baseball America top ten MidSeason ranking, now let us turn to MLB and see how they did.

Hits:

  • Bellinger was nails. Looks like everyone got that right with Fangraphs being the only main publication to go with Yadier Alvarez instead of Bellinger as the top prospect.
  • The had Buehler at five to begin with,  so not such a big jump to number one.
  • Almost no change between 2 – 6 other than placement so that was solid.
  • They were in on Mitch White before anyone except David Hood.
  • At least they had Dennis Santana ranked even if only at 25.
  • They were in on Heredia and Ruiz before anyone except Fangraphs. Excellent work here.

Misses:

  • Lux seems like a whiff in pre-season but you had to put him high just based on his draft position. He has dropped to eleven but is that far enough? With the draft pedigree in the back window, I’m not sure why he’s still considered the better prospect over Brendon Davis.  Scouts know stuff but the stats tell a different story.
  • Sborz has disappointed everyone and is no longer ranked
  • Dustin May wasn’t ranked very high and probably continues to be under valued by MLB

How about the midseason rankings.

  • 2017 draft picks show up.  Jeren Kendall pops in at 5, James Marinan at 24, and Morgan Cooper at 27.
  • Caleb Ferguson cracks the list at 25
  • Kyle Farmer cracks the list at 30
  • Dropping off the list are Sopko, Sborz, Mieses, and Rhame
  • Dennis Santana looks to be the biggest gainer going from 25 to 14
  • AJ Alexy moved from 29 to 18
  • Keibert Ruiz and Will Smith are neck and neck at 8 and 9 respectively
  • Might be missing the boat on Cristian Santana
  • I have no idea why Drew Jackson is still on any ranking list. I hope to be shown why but I’ve yet to see it. He’s old for his age in A+, is repeating the league, and still can’t hit.
ProspecName BirthDate AGE League MLBSpring MLBMidSeason
Cody Bellinger 7/13/1995 22 Majors 1 Graduated
Yadier Alvarez 3/7/1996 21 AA 2 3
Alex Verdugo* 5/15/1996 21 AAA 3 2
Willie Calhoun* 11/4/1994 22 AAA 4 4
Walker Buehler 7/28/1994 22 AAA 5 1
Yusniel Diaz 10/7/1996 20 A+ 6 6
Gavin Lux 11/23/1997 19 A 7 11
Brock Stewart 10/3/1991 25 Majors 8 10
Jordan Sheffield 6/1/1995 22 A 9 12
Mitchell White 12/28/1994 22 AA 10 7
Omar Estevez 2/25/1998 19 A+ 11 15
Starling Heredia 2/6/1999 18 Rookie 12 13
Keibert Ruiz 7/20/1998 19 A+ 13 8
Will Smith 3/28/1995 22 AA 14 9
Imani Abdullah 4/20/1997 20 A 15 23
Josh Sborz 12/17/1993 23 AA 16  NR
Trevor Oaks 3/26/1993 24 AAA 17 16
Drew Jackson 7/28/1993  23 A+ 18 21
D.J. Peters 12/12/1995 21 A+ 19 20
Ronny Brito 3/22/1999 18 Rookie 20 26
Oneil Cruz 10/4/1998  18 A 21 22
Edwin Rios* 4/21/1994 23 AAA 22 19
Dustin May 9/6/1997 19 A 23 17
Carlos Rincon 10/14/1997 19 A 24 29
Dennis Santana 4/12/1996  21 AA 25 14
Johan Mieses 7/13/1995 22 A+ 26  NR
Brendon Davis 7/27/1997 20 A+ 27 28
Andrew Sopko 8/7/1994 22 AA 28 NR
AJ Alexy 4/21/1998 19 A 29 18
Jacob Rhame 3/16/1993 24 AAA 30  NR
Jeren Kendall 2/4/1996 21 A NA 5
James Marinan 10/10/1998 18 NA 24
Morgan Cooper 9/12/1994 22 NA 27
Caleb Ferguson* 7/2/1996 21 A+ NR 25
Kyle Farmer 8/17/1990 26 AAA NR 30
Andrew Toles* 5/24/1992 25 Majors NR
Austin Barnes 12/28/1989 27 Majors NR
Grant Dayton* 11/25/1987 29 Majors NR
Yaisel Sierra 6/5/1991 26 AAA NR
Mitch Hansen* 5/1/1996 21 A NR
Cody Thomas* 10/8/1994 22 A NR
Jacob Scavuzzo 1/15/1994 23 AA NR
Devin Smeltzer 9/7/1995  21 A+ NR
Scott Barlow 12/18/1993 23 AAA NR
Cristian Santana 2/24/1997 20 A NR

Reviewing Baseball America MidSeason Prospect Rankings

♦ July 27, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

Earlier we took a look at the original 2017 Baseball America Ranking and found some hits and misses.  Now we will look at the midseason ranking that Baseball America came out with a few weeks ago.

In the table below the number in parenthesis is the original 2017 ranking.

  • Walker Buehler couldn’t crack the top ten in Jan/Feb but after three months of domination, he is now the Dodgers top prospect according to Baseball America.
  • The next big jump belongs to Mitchell White who moved from nineteen to six.  That was a big jump considering how little White has pitched this year. Was his stuff that different from August of 2016 to April of 2017? Everyone else saw that stuff in 2016 and graded him higher, nice of BA to join the party.
  • One of their better original rankings was Dustin May at thirteen and May made it look good with great work for the Loons this year. May has jumped to number eight.
  • 2017 number one pick Jeren Kendall pops right in at number seven.  That gives the Dodgers three center fielders in the top ten though Verdugo is probably a RF, and Diaz has been splitting time with DJ Peters in CF for Rancho.  This ranking came in before Kendall made a mockery of the Pioneer League. He is due to make his full season debut today for the Loons.  Many eyes will be on him to see how he handles the advanced pitching of full season baseball.
  • Baseball America likes Will Smith more than Keibert Ruiz. Time will tell if that was a good idea. When you read the Baseball America handbook you can see why Baseball America likes Will Smith. He’s now in AA and looking more and more like an Austin Barnes clone.

My expectations are that when Starling Heredia is done with playing baseball in 2017 he will be a top ten Dodger prospect.

I like the list. I would have squeezed Keibert Ruiz onto this list. BA was not high on Dennis Santana entering the season so I’m not sure if he has changed their mind with his great season so far.

I’m not sure why AL teams aren’t knocking on the Dodgers door for Willie Calhoun. You shouldn’t need to be an old player to be a DH.

ProspecName BirthDate AGE League BA MidSeason
Walker Buehler 7/28/1994 22 AAA 1 (11)
Alex Verdugo* 5/15/1996 21 AAA 2 (4)
Yadier Alvarez 3/7/1996 21 AA 3 (2)
Willie Calhoun* 11/4/1994 22 AAA 4 (5)
Yusniel Diaz 10/7/1996 20 A+ 5 (7)
Mitchell White 12/28/1994 22 AA 6 (19)
Jeren Kendall 2/4/1996 21 A 7
Dustin May 9/6/1997 19 A 8 (13)
Brock Stewart 10/3/1991 25 Majors 9 (8)
Will Smith 3/28/1995 22 AA 10 (16)

Reviewing Baseball America Dodger Top 30

♦ July 27, 2017 ♦ 2 Comments

Several weeks ago Baseball American came out with their updated prospect list which made me go back and look harder at their original Dodger top 30 which came out in Jan/Feb of 2017.

The Hits:

  • Bellinger as the top prospect was prophetic. In reading the BA review they thought he had 30 home run power, they didn’t think he’d hit almost 30 home runs by the all-star game. Glowing reports about his athletism proved true. Nailed this.
  • Alex Verdugo at number 4 and the 2nd best position prospect has done nothing but hit at AAA and continues his climb up the prospect charts.
  • Willie Calhoun at five has also lived up to the billing. If he had a position he might be the highest ranked hitter but he’s still trying to make do at 2nd base.
  • Number six Andrew Toles started out the year as Dodgers starting left fielder and certainly looked liked someone who could handle the position all year until he had the season ending surgery.
  • Dustin May at 13 was a solid choice and May has done everything to deserve this.  BA had May higher than MLB, David Hood, and Fangraphs.

The Misses:

  • Gavin Lux at number 9. You can understand the lofty ranking given his 1st round pedigree from 2016.  This looks like a big whiff as he has struggled with his assignment to the Loons. Showing no power and barely hitting .200 the only thing Lux has going for him was some early signs of patience. He might bounce back but he won’t be a top ten prospect next year.
  • Walker Buehler  was ranked 11th which was the highest of any of the prospect sights. Everyone else had Walker in their top top 7, and now at midseason BA has moved from 11th to their top rated Dodger prospect.
  • Johan Mieses was ranked 15th and probably won’t be a top 30 prospect by the end of the season. Johan failed miserably at AA and has been demoted back to A+ ball to get his confidence back. This was an aggressive ranking for Johan but it did not pan out.
  • Hard to imagine Dodger Minor League Player of the Year, Edwin Rios didn’t make the top 30. He continued to mash in AA and has been promoted to AAA where after a slow start he has got it going.
  • Not ranking Dennis Santana who excelled at A+ and is now in AA and easily one of the Dodgers top five pitching prospects.
  • Not ranking Starling Heredia. The big bonus baby has a bigger pedigree than Lux but went unranked. He’s now turning heads in the Pioneer League. He’s three years younger than Jeren Kendall who already made the BA midseason top 10 Dodger prospect list. Heredia could be better.
  • Not ranking Caleb Ferguson or Devin Smeltzer. I bet they are above Sopko and Sborz by seasons end.

Below is the table.

ProspecName BirthDate AGE League 2017 BA
Cody Bellinger 7/13/1995 22 Majors 1
Yadier Alvarez 3/7/1996 21 AA 2
Jose De Leon 8/7/1992 24 Tampa 3
Alex Verdugo* 5/15/1996 21 AAA 4
Willie Calhoun* 11/4/1994 22 AAA 5
Andrew Toles* 5/24/1992 25 Majors 6
Yusniel Diaz 10/7/1996 20 A+ 7
Brock Stewart 10/3/1991 25 Majors 8
Gavin Lux 11/23/1997 19 A 9
Austin Barnes 12/28/1989 27 Majors 10
Walker Buehler 7/28/1994 22 AAA 11
Jordan Sheffield 6/1/1995 22 A 12
Dustin May 9/6/1997 19 A 13
Trevor Oaks 3/26/1993 24 AAA 14
Johan Mieses 7/13/1995 22 A+ 15
Will Smith 3/28/1995 22 AA 16
Grant Dayton* 11/25/1987 29 Majors 17
Josh Sborz 12/17/1993 23 AA 18
Mitchell White 12/28/1994 22 AA 19
Keibert Ruiz 7/20/1998 19 A+ 20
D.J. Peters 12/12/1995 21 A+ 21
Yaisel Sierra 6/5/1991 26 AAA 22
Omar Estevez 2/25/1998 19 A+ 24
Chase De Jong 12/29/1993 23 Seattle 25
Andrew Sopko 8/7/1994 22 AA 26
Oneil Cruz 10/4/1998 A 27
Mitch Hansen* 5/1/1996 21 A 28
Cody Thomas* 10/8/1994 22 A 29
Jacob Scavuzzo 1/15/1994 23 AA 30
Drew Jackson 7/28/1993 A+ 7-Seattle
Starling Heredia 2/6/1999 18 Rookie NR
Imani Abdullah 4/20/1997 20 A NR
Ronny Brito 3/22/1999 18 Rookie NR
Edwin Rios* 4/21/1994 23 AAA NR
Carlos Rincon 10/14/1997 19 A NR
Dennis Santana 4/12/1996 AA NR
Brendon Davis 7/27/1997 20 A+ NR
AJ Alexy 4/21/1998 19 A NR
Jacob Rhame 3/16/1993 24 AAA NR
Kyle Farmer 8/17/1990 26 AAA NR
Devin Smeltzer 9/7/1995 A+ NR
Caleb Ferguson* 7/2/1996 21 A+ NR
Scott Barlow 12/18/1993 23 AAA NR
Cristian Santana 2/24/1997 20 A NR