{"id":954,"date":"2011-04-01T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T14:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=954"},"modified":"2011-04-01T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T14:41:23","slug":"aa-harrisburg-roster-set-reactions-to-named-pitchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"AA Harrisburg Roster set: Reactions to named Pitchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few hours after the parent club lost their opening day game, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masnsports.com\/byron_kerr\/2011\/03\/harrisburg-releases-2011-roster.html\">AA roster<\/a> was announced for the start of the 2011 season.\u00a0 I think it was kind of odd to announce the AA roster prior to the AAA roster, or to announce it separately than the other full season squads, but it does make for some interesting analysis already.<\/p>\n<p>To borrow from Byron Kerr&#8217;s article above, here&#8217;s the 12-man pitching roster:<\/p>\n<p>Pitchers:<\/p>\n<p>RHP Erik Arnesen<br \/>\nRHP Luis Atilano<br \/>\nRHP Jimmy Barthmaier<br \/>\nRHP Erik Davis<br \/>\nRHP Jeff Mandel<br \/>\nRHP Ryan Mattheus<br \/>\nLHP Pat McCoy<br \/>\nRHP Brad Meyers<br \/>\nRHP Brad Peacock<br \/>\nRHP Hassan Pena<br \/>\nRHP Ryan Tatusko<br \/>\nLHP Cory VanAllen<\/p>\n<p>Based on the roles from last year, plus the organizational status of some of these guys, here&#8217;s how I think the roles shake out:<\/p>\n<p>Starters: Meyers, Peacock, Tatusko, EDavis, Arneson<br \/>\nbullpen: Mandel (closer), VanAllen (L), HPena, Mattheus, McCoy (L), Barthmaier, Atilano<\/p>\n<p>First thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Arneson <\/strong>gets dumped back to AA after pitching half the year in AAA.\u00a0 This probably is due to the overflow of starters in AAA we have now, including newly signed reclamation project <strong>Oliver Perez<\/strong>.\u00a0 Not that Arneson was a fantastic prospect for us last year, but i&#8217;m sure some people will not be happy that his advancement is being displaced by the Perez experiment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Atilano<\/strong> goes from the 40-man and pitching regularly in 2010 to passing through waivers and being assigned to AA in 2011.\u00a0 This probably indicates that, unless he pitches like the 2nd coming of Tim Lincecum this year, he&#8217;s officially designated &#8220;organizational guy.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mattheus<\/strong> may be a starter instead of Arneson, frankly.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how he does post TJ surgery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tatusko<\/strong>: it is disappointing he&#8217;s not with the AAA squad because he definitely earned the promotion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peacock<\/strong> and new acquisition <strong>Erik Davis<\/strong> start where I thought they would; no surprises here.\u00a0 Same to a certain extent with <strong>Brad Meyers<\/strong>, who was fantastic last year before going down with injury.\u00a0 He seems to be the real starter prospect on the AA squad and may feature in the 2011 rotation battle with the big club.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, for the surprises.\u00a0 Where are these guys?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Milone <\/strong>and <strong>Holder<\/strong>; I guess they start the year in high-A again<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roark<\/strong>: where is he?\u00a0 My guess would be the AAA bullpen since there&#8217;s no way he should be dumped back to high-A.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alaniz<\/strong>: not that he was a great prospect himself, but he is far too old to be starting in high-A again.\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing he&#8217;s in the AAA bullpen mix or flat out released.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait to see the next round of announcements (which i&#8217;m hoping have not already occurred as i write this).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few hours after the parent club lost their opening day game, the AA roster was announced for the start of the 2011 season.\u00a0 I think it was kind of odd to announce the AA roster prior to the AAA roster, or to announce it separately than the other full season squads, but it does [&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":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minorspitching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}