{"id":2450,"date":"2011-09-27T18:46:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T22:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2013-12-17T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:50:04","slug":"gclrookie-pitching-staff-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":"GCL\/Rookie Pitching Staff year in Review; 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2505\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/mcgearyjack_pg_viacapitoldugout.com_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2505\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2505 \" title=\"mcgearyjack_pg_viacapitoldugout.com\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/mcgearyjack_pg_viacapitoldugout.com_.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We&#8217;d like to get Jack McGeary back on the field, pitching. Photo via capitoldugout.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The GCL rotation is always one of the most difficult to follow, with pitchers flowing regularly in and out of rehab sessions and starters sometimes throwing fewer innings than their relievers.\u00a0 Our GCL roster was filled with 20-somethings, a result of a large influx of college pitchers via the draft the past couple of years.\u00a0 Its also the natural entry point for DSL grads, who graduate from the island to Viera each spring.\u00a0 And this year, our GCL team was *bad*.\u00a0 We were just a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.minorleaguebaseball.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?t=l_sta&amp;lid=124&amp;sid=milb\">half-game better<\/a> than the worst team in the league and didn&#8217;t name a single player to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/today\/prospects\/rankings\/league-top-20-prospects\/2011\/2612381.html\">Baseball America&#8217;s season-end top 20 prospects list<\/a>.\u00a0 Picking a name-sake was difficult, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the status of the GCL pitching staff at the end of the season (ages are as of 9\/30\/11)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rotation<\/strong>: Baez 19, King 21, Encarnation 20, McGeary 22, Mieses 21<\/li>\n<li><strong>bullpen<\/strong>: Ferrer 21, Heredia 19, Herrera 21, Lucas 24, Simko 22, JSmith 21, CDavis 21, Peters 20, ASantana 20, Williams 21, Harper 21, Lee 21, Monar 20<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spot Starts<\/strong>: Medina 21<\/li>\n<li><strong>promotions<\/strong>: Cole and Ray (sort of), Meza, Karns, Hanks, McKenzie, Hawkins<\/li>\n<li><strong>Up-and-back<\/strong>: Medina<\/li>\n<li><strong>dl<\/strong>: Marcelino 18, Anderson 22<\/li>\n<li><strong>missing<\/strong>: Brazoban, Paredes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>GCL <\/strong><strong>starters<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The &#8220;rotation&#8221; started the season with Karns, Baez, Mieses, King, and Meza.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how these guys and the rest of the pitchers fared in 2011.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nathan Karns<\/strong> finally looks healthy and spent most of the season in Auburn.\u00a0 See the Short-A post for his review.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gregory Baez<\/strong> is a DSL grad who looked pretty good this year; in 13 appearances (11 starts) he posted a 3.72 era.\u00a0 <em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Outlook for Next Season<\/strong><\/span>: <\/em>rotation in Short-A.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adalberto Mieses<\/strong> is another DSL grad who struggled this year, putting up a 6.75 era in 8 appearances and four starts.\u00a0 <em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Outlook for Next Season<\/span>: <\/strong><\/em>repeating the GCL, perhaps in the rotation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brandon King<\/strong> struggled for the third consecutive year in GCL (though I believe he was hurt in 2010) after signing out of high school as a 27th rounder.\u00a0 <em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Outlook for Next Season<\/span>: <\/strong><\/em>Back in the GCL or out of the system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christian Meza<\/strong> got a &#8220;start&#8221; (one of the early games where two guys each threw 4 innings), pitched well and was promoted up to Auburn, where he played most of the season.\u00a0 See the Short-A post for his review.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pedro Encarnation<\/strong> finished his 2nd straight year in the GCL, failing badly in short-A and not posting very impressive stats in the rookie league.\u00a0 <em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Outlook for Next Season<\/span>: <\/strong><\/em>Back in the GCL or out of the system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Silvio Medina<\/strong> appeared in short-A briefly but had 9 appearances (5 starts) for GCL.\u00a0 He posted a 6.61 era in 32 2\/3 innings.\u00a0 <em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Outlook for Next Season<\/span>: <\/strong><\/em>Back in the GCL.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jack McGeary<\/strong> was probably the most important name to pass through the GCL, coming back from Tommy John surgery after a ballyhooed career thus far with the team.\u00a0 On the bright side he looked sharp in 5 starts (2.81 era in 16 ip), and on the bad side he suffered a small injury that sent him to the DL to end the season.\u00a0 He&#8217;s rule-5 eligible this off season but clearly is a reclamation project.\u00a0 Lets just hope he can regain some form that earned him the big bonus out of high school.\u00a0 <em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Outlook for Next Season<\/span>: <\/strong><\/em>Back in the Hagerstown rotation for one more shot at resurrecting his career.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anthony Marcelino<\/strong> had a spot start and 3 appearances before going on the season-ending DL after graduating from the DSL.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Outlook for next season<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: get healthy, back in GCL.<\/li>\n<li>Other starters who appeared: <strong>Matt Chico<\/strong> had a couple of starts while the team decided what to do with him.\u00a0 <strong>Chris McKenzie<\/strong> had two ineffective starts before ending up back in Hagerstown to end the season.\u00a0 <strong>Doug Slaten<\/strong> had one rehab start.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><em><strong>GCL Relievers<\/strong><\/em>:<\/strong><\/em> taking a look at the relief corps at the end of the season, and talk about other hurlers on the team.\u00a0 Most of these sample sizes are so small (most of the relievers in the GCL only threw between 5-10 innings all summer), its hard to really pass judgement.\u00a0 So we&#8217;ll group them by age\/experience mostly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Smith<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Lee<\/strong>, <strong>Williams<\/strong>, <strong>Davis<\/strong>, <strong>Monar<\/strong>, <strong>Simko<\/strong>, and <strong>Harper<\/strong> should all be in the Short-A pen in 2012.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Herrera, Santana<\/strong>, <strong>Peters<\/strong>, <strong>Ferrer<\/strong>, <strong>Ramirez<\/strong>, and <strong>Schill<\/strong> probably all end back up in the GCL pen in 2012.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bobby Lucas<\/strong> is a 2011 draftee out of GW who came out of college very old (he turned 24 in August).\u00a0 He was very effective in the GCL but is well behind in his advancement based on his age.\u00a0 Based on this we may see him pushed to start higher than his other GCL bullpen compatriots (probably low-A).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Herrera<\/strong> is an interesting case; he was effective in short-A in 2010 but missed out on the level (perhaps coming off injury?)\u00a0 He should clearly be in the mix to move higher than his other GCL teammates next year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patrick Arnold<\/strong> was demoted from Hagerstown out of spring, pitched a few effective innings then was released.\u00a0 He was in his 4th pro season and just wasn&#8217;t advancing like he needed to.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Garrett Mock<\/strong> may have really been rehabbing, but his &#8220;assignment&#8221; to GCL and his extended stay said more about the pitcher&#8217;s future in the organization than one might think.\u00a0 He was eventually DFA&#8217;d and accepted an assignment to AAA.<\/li>\n<li>Other relievers (non-rehab) who put in GCL innings: <strong>Tyler Hanks<\/strong> ended the season in Auburn and should go back to Hagerstown for 2012.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ben Hawkins<\/strong> did the same.\u00a0 <strong>Christian Meza<\/strong> quickly moved up Auburn, where he ended the season in the short-A rotation mix.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trevor Holder<\/strong> put in a bunch of &#8220;rehab&#8221; innings and was hit hard, indicative of his relative skill level once he returned to Potomac.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The further away from the majors, the harder it is to project these guys.\u00a0 But hopefully we&#8217;ll see some GCL grads making their way up the system and having an impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GCL rotation is always one of the most difficult to follow, with pitchers flowing regularly in and out of rehab sessions and starters sometimes throwing fewer innings than their relievers.\u00a0 Our GCL roster was filled with 20-somethings, a result of a large influx of college pitchers via the draft the past couple of years.\u00a0 [&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":[204,207,205,194,22,80,203,206,87,196,190,202,853],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minorspitching","tag-adalberto-mieses","tag-anthony-marcelino","tag-brandon-king","tag-christian-meza","tag-christopher-mckenzie","tag-doug-slaten","tag-gregory-baez","tag-jack-mcgeary","tag-matt-chico","tag-nathan-karns","tag-pedro-encarnation","tag-silvio-medina","tag-tommy-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","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=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8322,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/8322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}