{"id":18014,"date":"2023-04-01T13:27:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T17:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=18014"},"modified":"2024-03-25T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:05:28","slug":"spring-training-2023-nri-disposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=18014","title":{"rendered":"Spring Training 2023 NRI Disposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before I clear out the &#8220;NRI color coding&#8221; on the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/186nm-v5F-zTCoR2Be7TFYM3e2cZ-gYi2WVqJLEkHdmc\/\">Big Board<\/a>, I thought i&#8217;d write out a bit about the 2023 spring training competitions and the fact that yet again a slew of Non Roster Invites (NRIs) have made the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s past posts on the same topic by year: 2022, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16923\">2021<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16500\">2020<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15666\">2019<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15657\">2018<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13409\">2017<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=11953\">2016<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10264\">2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>So, who were the NRIs this year?   By position:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Starters: Kuhl. Tetreault, Lee, Romero<\/li><li>Righty Relievers: Harris, , Brzycky, Castro, Colome, Machado, Peralta, Carrillo<\/li><li>Lefty Relievers: Banda*, Baldanado, Perez, Doolittle<\/li><li>Catchers: Millas, Lindslay<\/li><li>Infielders: Chavis, Mejia, Adams, Blankenhorn, Fox, Valera<\/li><li>Outfielders: Casey, Hill, Antuna, Hernandez<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So, Opening day NRIs to make roster and the circumstances behind each<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Chad Kuhl<\/strong> makes the roster as the 5th starter when a massive gap in the rotation opens up with Cavalli&#8217;s arm injury.  I thought perhaps rule5 pick Thad Ward had a shot here, but the team seemed to decide early he was going to hang in the bullpen for now.  There were a slew of 40-man member starters in camp (Adon, Irvin, Abbott, Espino), but none of them made a legitimate case above Kuhl.  Abbott and Espino seem to have proved last  year they were better in relief, and both were sent down to AAA relatively early.<\/li><li><strong>Hobie Harris<\/strong>: the team knew they were going to be down one RH reliever in Rainey, but didn&#8217;t count on Arano&#8217;s injury, which opened up a spot.  Weems is the only other RH reliever on the 40-man and seems like he&#8217;ll be the first guy cut if they need space, which left the door open for Harris, who had a fantastic spring.<\/li><li><strong>Anthony Banda<\/strong> slid into the sole lefty spot in the bullpen thanks mostly to Doolittle getting hurt.  There are a couple other lefty relievers on the 40-man, but they&#8217;re both too young.  This was always going to a NRI, and Banda won.<\/li><li><strong>Michael Chavis <\/strong>might be the biggest surprise NRI to get added, in that the team had an identical player in Jake Alu who was just added, plus a former 1st rounder in Downs who they were taking a shot at.  In the end, when Kieboom got hurt (yet again) it sealed the fate of others, who failed to impress during spring.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Which of the rest of the NRIs might we see this year?  I fully expect another season of RH reliever churn, so look for guys like Colome and Machado to get re-added if they stay with the team and start out well.  A couple of the NRIs are legit prospects (Brzycky) who seem like they&#8217;ll be up at some point.  Perhaps later in the year we&#8217;ll see a return to the 40-man for guys like Casey and Hernandez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I clear out the &#8220;NRI color coding&#8221; on the Big Board, I thought i&#8217;d write out a bit about the 2023 spring training competitions and the fact that yet again a slew of Non Roster Invites (NRIs) have made the team. Here&#8217;s past posts on the same topic by year: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18014","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=18014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18015,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18014\/revisions\/18015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}