Since Myrtle Beach is independently owned we usually get info from them before the other Braves Minor League teams. Here are the Braves Minor Leaguers who will be assigned to Myrtle Beach to start the season:
Pitchers: Randall Delgado, Zeke Spruill, Juan Abreu, Angelo Paulino, Matt Crim, Yeliar Castro, Jaye Chapman, David Francis, J.J. Hoover, Benino Pruneda, Jose Ortegano, Chad Rodgers, and Cole Rohrbough.
Hitters: Adam Milligan, Gerardo Avila, Yoel Campusano, Shayne Moody, Amadeo Zazueta, Randy Gress, Geraldo Rodriguez, Cole Miles, Chris Sheehan, Jahdiel Santamaria, Luis Sumoza, Matt Kennelly, and Jesus Sucre.
Luis Sumoza will apparently start the year on the disabled list.
Other rosters are taking shape, and some players are listed on the milb.com pages, but most of them are not 100% correct. I'll have them once they're announced.
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I care? lmao
Jose Rodriguez - April 3, 2010
Cause we aren’t the Yankees and can’t just throw money at whatever player we want? We gotta…you know, develop players.
Scott Coleman - April 3, 2010 via mobile
If you don't love prospects.
You follow the wrong organization.
PWHjort - April 3, 2010
This!
I don’t think I could ever like a team that doesn’t work itself up from the minor leagues. Free agents are fun and all, but there’s something special about developing the next star in baseball.
Scott Coleman - April 3, 2010 via mobile
Even the Yankees
need to develop players. Even if they are only used as trade chips (which they aren’t—see Cano, Hughes, Chamberlain), it is important to have good prospects.
Jacob Peterson - April 4, 2010
i know you said you're 16
but please…spare us the “too cool for school” stuff. that’s what the ajc message boards are for.
Bravely going forward - April 4, 2010
-1
on the ajc rip
sunking1056 - April 4, 2010
you’re kidding, right?
Bravely going forward - April 4, 2010
Dumb de dumb dumb dumb.
cbwilk - April 4, 2010
smart sm smart smart smart
bwellnjonesco - April 4, 2010
A-MIL
MY BOY He better stay there til at least til mid July.
JKowalek - April 3, 2010
Freddie Freeman will be starting in Triple-A, so we can see him playing in G-Town!
Freeman earns spot on Triple-A roster
award6 - April 3, 2010
Wow.
I love Freddie, but that might be a bit aggressive. I’d like to see him have a couple good months in AA first… Of course, he was pretty awesome in ST.
Jacob Peterson - April 3, 2010
I agree. He didn’t spend much time in AA last year considering he got injured about a month after being promoted.
BravesFan - April 3, 2010
I agree
But I guess we’ll have to see what Mississippi has in store at 1B to make this move. I certainly wouldn’t have minded him just simply starting there, even if they were to promote him promptly. Someone else mentioned it, but I seriously am curious to know if it really has anything to do with Heyward; if there is a comfort level that the org. is taking into consideration, since it’s safe to assume that they’ll be living together, much like Francoeur/McCann, Hanson/Medlen. It’s a little off-base, and it’s not like Freddie couldn’t immediately prove his worthiness to AAA, but it’s something to consider.
royhobbs - April 3, 2010
Based off MB’s roster, my guess is Mississippi’s first baseman is Mauro Gomez.
cbwilk - April 4, 2010
Agreed
Oh well, Freeman’s a quickie and the organization is treating him as such. Still think AA was the best place to send him. Oh well, not like the southern league and international league are a whole lot different. Probably the most insignificant jump in the minor leagues.
PWHjort - April 3, 2010
I never agree with that theory. There are so many 10+ year vets in AAA, guys with lots and lots of big league time, guys who can just carve you up as a pitcher or bait you as a hitter. I see plenty of AAA and AA (IL and SL actually) and the AAA games are just better baseball.
cbwilk - April 4, 2010
They will be carrying quite a few starters.
Delgado
Spruill
Crim
Hoover
Ortegano
Rorhbough
Did I miss anyone?
BravesFan - April 3, 2010
Come to think of it. Ortegano finished in AA last year and peformed well. Why is he getting deomoted back to highA?
BravesFan - April 3, 2010
Just normal shuffling of rosters.
Mississippi probably had too many players or something.
esadb - April 3, 2010
That may mean Minor is starting in AA.
BravesFan - April 3, 2010
Well,
Yeah. I mean, if he’s not in High-A, that’d be the place.
Jacob Peterson - April 3, 2010
Minor won't be in Rome, either.
http://www.romenews-tribune.com/view/full_story/6934288/article-Rome-Braves-release-Opening-Day-roster?instance=home_news_lead
So, AA it is. I think AA is the most appropriate level for him. His competition in the SEC was at least as good as that of a typical class A league, and there’s really nothing for him to learn at class A.
PWHjort - April 3, 2010
Yeah, I was pretty shocked Ortegano is going to be back. My guess is that 2 out of he, Crim, and Hoover will be relievers. Or, at least for the start, they’ll piggyback some guys.
cbwilk - April 4, 2010
Rome
2010 Rome roster can be found at www.rn-t.com. For some reason it won’t let me post the link. Sorry.
rbravesfan - April 3, 2010
JT and Vizcaino as the #1 and #2…
Beast mode: [ON] off
Scott Coleman - April 3, 2010 via mobile
In the picture in that link...
Paul Clemens looks SKINNY. I’m 6’2", 165, but he looks even lankier than me.
Except for the OFs, that Rome team looks sick.
Jacob Peterson - April 3, 2010
old picture. He’s filled out a lot since last year.
rbravesfan - April 3, 2010
Still though, he’s pretty skinny. He has the longest hands of anyone ever.
cbwilk - April 4, 2010
Anybody care to post some lineups?
I posted this question in Rome’s thread and again I’m just posting my shot in the dark in hope someone who knows what they are talking about will correct me.
1. Miles CF
2. Campusano
3. Milligan RF
4. Avila 1B
5. Santamaria LF
6. 3B?
7. Zazueta SS
8. Kennelly C
6.
bbxxj - April 3, 2010
Couldn’t really guess how the lineup will play out, but I’d put the defensive positions at C Sucre, 1B Avila, 2B Campusano, 3B Moody, SS Gress, LF Milligan, CF Miles, RF Rodriguez with Kennelly and Sucre sharing a lot of catching and DHing.
cbwilk - April 4, 2010
I was off on a lot of guys. I’d guessed the roster this morning and I had Myke Jones, Mike Minor, Chad Rogers and a few other guys. Still, I had 16 right, which isn’t bad.
cbwilk - April 4, 2010
Ortegano is a bit shocking...
he had a good year last year, produced in AA, and seemed a possibility to make the big league staff. I thought he was a lock to lead the Mississippi staff.
Mr. Sanchez - April 5, 2010
Yeah, it’s hard to believe that ST performance would decide that much, especially for a guy on the 40 man.
cbwilk - April 5, 2010
And was he that bad this spring?...
Outside of the one horrid inning, I can’t really remember his games.
Mr. Sanchez - April 5, 2010
And looking at Mississippi's supposed starters...
Richard Sullivan (I guess he’s the 5th), Jacob Thompson, and Mike Minor instead of Ortegano? Sullivan was much worse than Ortegano last year #s wise, and Thompson split the year between Myrtle and Rome without touching AA, while Ortegano excelled in his handful of starts in Mississippi after doing great in Myrtle. That one just bottles the mind.
Mr. Sanchez - April 5, 2010
Yeah, I mean you look at Mississippi’s starters and you’d have to say it’s going to be Minor, Cordier, Sullivan, Diamond, Thompson, and Cofield. Frankly, I’d put Ortegano ahead of all of them except Minor.
cbwilk - April 5, 2010
Ok, so where’s our new shortstop gonna play? The one that was supposed to be like getting a first round draft choice, Salcedo or whatever his name is?
MO'toole - April 4, 2010
He’s only 18 and he’s brand new to the country. They must have determined in ST that he’s ether not ready for a full season yet, or he’s going to be better served to play at the short season team. Either way, his season will start later, in a few months at Rome, or in a few months at Danville.
cbwilk - April 4, 2010
Apparently so,
because he’s not on any of the full-season rosters.
Jacob Peterson - April 4, 2010
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