{"id":14147,"date":"2017-06-20T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14147"},"modified":"2017-06-27T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T18:55:55","slug":"auburn-roster-announced-first-look-at-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14147","title":{"rendered":"Auburn Roster Announced &#8230; First look at the Pitchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Auburn-Doubledays.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14152\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Auburn-Doubledays-300x249.gif\" alt=\"Auburn-Doubledays\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Nats havn&#8217;t (as of the moment of publishing this post) announced any 2017 class signings &#8230; but they did on 6\/19\/17 post a slew of transactions to the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.milb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?t=l_trn&amp;lid=127&amp;sid=l127\">New York Penn League transactions page<\/a>, which included (nearly) their entire pitching staff. \u00a0Those transactions coupled with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Doubledays\">official posting of the Auburn roster on their twitter page<\/a> (@Doubledays if you&#8217;re not following) confirm the opening day roster for the Auburn Short-season squad.<\/p>\n<p>Lets take a quick look at who made it, who didn&#8217;t, and who might be in line to be in the &#8220;rotation&#8221; as much as they generally follow a rotation in Short-A. \u00a0In alphabetical order, lets look at the arms, where they came from and where they may slot in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tomas Alastre<\/strong>, 19. \u00a0RHP 2015 IFA signing (Venezuela). \u00a0Was in the GCL in 2016, where he\u00a0threw 19 innings in total and had an ERA north of 5.00. \u00a0Young for Short A as a 19-yr old.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joseph Baltrip, <\/strong>22<strong>. \u00a0<\/strong>RHP 2016 24th round pick out of Juco. \u00a0Was in GCL last year, working as a late-inning reliever with good results (1.36 ERA). \u00a0Likely the closer or close to it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jake Barnett<\/strong>\u00a0, 22. \u00a0LHP 2016 20th rounder out of \u00a0Lewis-Clark State. \u00a0Only thew 5 innings last year but didn&#8217;t hit the D\/L; should be interesting to see what he does in 2017.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ben Braymer<\/strong>, 23. \u00a0LHP 2016 18th rounder out of Auburn. \u00a0 Also in GCL last \u00a0year, 19IP in 10 appearances. \u00a0Likely a reliever.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gilberto Chu<\/strong>\u00a019. \u00a0LHP 2015 IFA signing (Panama). \u00a0Last 2 seasons in DSL, last year he started.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew DeRosier<\/strong> 22, RHP 2013\u00a024th round pick out of Southwestern College. \u00a05 pro season, he started the year with Hagerstown but got bombed so this is a demotion. \u00a0This will be the 4th year he&#8217;s appeared in Auburn. \u00a0He was a young Juco draftee, so he&#8217;s not terribly old for the level &#8230; but in his 5 pro season he should be further along.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diomedes Eusebio<\/strong>\u00a024, RHP 2010 IFA Signing (DR). \u00a0Was a hitter for his first 5 pro seasons, now converting to the mound. \u00a0This will be his 2nd full season on the hill; he had a 5.01 ERA in 14 relief innings in the GCL last year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jhonatan German<\/strong>\u00a022, RHP 2015 IFA signing (DR). \u00a0Reliever in the GCL last year with mediocre numbers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angel Guillen<\/strong>\u00a020, RHP 2013 IFA signing (Venezuela). \u00a0Pitched the last three years in the DSL, last year starting and posting a stellar 1.67 ERA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Malvin Pena<\/strong>\u00a019yr old RHP 2014 IFA signing (DR). \u00a0Pitched in DSL last two years; he seemed to have a serious injury though because he was on the 60-day D\/L both years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jonny Reid<\/strong>\u00a021yr old LHP 2016 28th rounder out of Azusa Pacific. \u00a0Got promoted from GCL-&gt;Short-A last year, starts in Auburn again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Rishwain<\/strong>\u00a022yr old RHP 2016 23rd rounder out of Westmont College. \u00a0Solid middle relief numbers for GCL last year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Felix Taveras<\/strong>\u00a021yr old 2014 IFA signing (DR). \u00a0Starter the last two seasons in the DSL with bad ERA but good K\/9 numbers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Kylin Turnbull<\/strong>, who is now 27, who has been kicking around the system since being drafted in the 4th round in 2011 and who hasn&#8217;t thrown a pro pitch since August 27th, 2014, is assigned for rehab. \u00a0I suppose he&#8217;ll be in the mix for starts as well.<\/p>\n<p>Two additional names (<strong>Chase McDowell<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Michael Sylvestri<\/strong>) are on the roster but listed as restricted; I believe both retired two seasons ago but are still in the database.<\/p>\n<p>Likely rotation: Alastre, Barnett, Chu, Guillen, Taveras, Turnbull<\/p>\n<p>Likely Bullpen: Baltrip as a closer, Braymer and Reid as loogies, DeRosier, Eusebio, German, MPena, Rishwain as RHP middle relievers.<\/p>\n<p>Roster Breakdown (not counting Turnbull or the Restricted guys):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seven IFAs and Six US-based draftees<\/li>\n<li>The seven IFAs: 4 from the Dominican Republic, 2 from Venezuela, 1 from Panama<\/li>\n<li>The 6 draftees: 5 of them are 2016 draftees and the earliest round drafted is the 18th round. \u00a0All low-round, low-expectation arms.<\/li>\n<li>Ages: three 19yr old IFAs, mostly 21-23yr old college guys. \u00a0The oldest guy is an 24yr old IFA converting to the mound.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now for the names that didn&#8217;t make this team but who were on Auburn&#8217;s staff last year or who were signed in the off-season and assigned to Auburn; you have to believe their days are numbered at this point, given that the team just drafted a ridiculous number of college arms in the 2017 draft (review to come).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wilber Pena<\/strong>: just 14IP last year for Auburn with a 6.75ERA; might be hurt.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yoan Aponte<\/strong>: signed in Nov 2016 and assigned to Auburn; no pro appearances yet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angher Cespedes<\/strong>; was released a few weeks ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Johan Gomez<\/strong>: signed in Mar 2017 and assigned to Auburn; already 23 so seems too old to go to GCL; may languish in XST.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kevin Mooney<\/strong>: UMaryland closer repeated Auburn in 2016 and didn&#8217;t make Hagerstown roster. \u00a0He hasn&#8217;t been released \u00a0yet but he doesn&#8217;t seem like a safe bet to carry on further.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s a slew of other names that I had associated with the GCL who might be in the same boat:\u00a0We&#8217;ll go over them when we do this post for the GCL.<\/p>\n<p>The posting of this roster now makes me wonder just where they plan on starting all these college arms, especially the higher profile guys. \u00a0<strong>Seth Romero<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Wil Crowe<\/strong> are way, way too good to go to the GCL, and Romero needs innings after missing half the season this spring. \u00a0Do they both go straight to Hagerstown? \u00a0We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nats havn&#8217;t (as of the moment of publishing this post) announced any 2017 class signings &#8230; but they did on 6\/19\/17 post a slew of transactions to the New York Penn League transactions page, which included (nearly) their entire pitching staff. \u00a0Those transactions coupled with the official posting of the Auburn roster on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3620,3042,3333,2932,3030,3622,3618,3334,3619,3624,3341,3337,2807,951,3621,2568,3336,2567,3617,3040,3623],"class_list":["post-14147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minorspitching","tag-angel-guillen","tag-angher-cespedes","tag-ben-braymer","tag-chase-mcdowell","tag-diomedes-eusebio","tag-felix-taveras","tag-gilberto-chu","tag-jake-barnett","tag-jhonatan-german","tag-johan-gomez","tag-jonny-reid","tag-joseph-baltrip","tag-kevin-mooney","tag-kylin-turnbull","tag-malvin-pena","tag-matthew-derosier","tag-michael-rishwain","tag-michael-sylvestri","tag-tomas-alastre","tag-wilber-pena","tag-yoan-aponte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14147"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14194,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147\/revisions\/14194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}