{"id":976,"date":"2011-04-05T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=976"},"modified":"2013-08-29T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:55:07","slug":"low-a-hagerstown-roster-set-reactions-to-named-pitchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Low-A Hagerstown Roster set: Reactions to named Pitchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Masn&#8217;s <strong>Byron Kerr<\/strong> for the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masnsports.com\/byron_kerr\/2011\/04\/hagerstown-releases-2011-roster.html\"> release of the Hagerstown roster<\/a> on 4\/4\/11.\u00a0 While most people will be focused on one <strong>Bryce Harper<\/strong>&#8216;s inclusion on this roster, I&#8217;m interested (per the title of the blog) in the pitchers.\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the list, cut-n-pasted from Kerr&#8217;s article.:<\/p>\n<p>LHP Paul Applebee<br \/>\nRHP Sam Brown<br \/>\nRHP Wilson Eusebio<br \/>\nLHP Matt Grace<br \/>\nRHP Ben Graham<br \/>\nLHP Bobby Hansen<br \/>\nLHP Chad Jenkins<br \/>\nRHP Taylor Jordan<br \/>\nLHP Christopher Manno<br \/>\nRHP Shane McCatty<br \/>\nRHP Christopher McKenzie<br \/>\nRHP Cameron Selik<br \/>\nRHP Matt Swynenberg<\/p>\n<p>Based on these player&#8217;s organizational roles and their status from last year, here&#8217;s how i&#8217;m guessing they play out:<\/p>\n<p>Starters: Applebee, Grace, Hansen, Jenkins, Jordan<br \/>\nbullpen: Eusebio, McCatty, McKenzie, Selik, Brown, Manno, Swynenberg, Graham<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My initial prediction for the low-A rotation was: Solis, Clegg, Demny, Ott\/Jenkins, Grace.\u00a0 <strong>Demny <\/strong>and <strong>Clegg <\/strong>are in the high-A squad.\u00a0 I thought <strong>Applebee <\/strong>would be in Potomac; now he seems set to repeat low-A and may be first in line to be promoted.\u00a0 I thought perhaps <strong>Hansen <\/strong>and <strong>Jordan <\/strong>would be almost &#8220;inbetween&#8221; levels, having not really done that well in short-A but having a full low-A rotation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Swyndenberg<\/strong> could be in the rotation or he could be a spot starter.\u00a0 He mostly was a starter last year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sam Brown<\/strong>?\u00a0 Where&#8217;d he come from?\u00a0 He seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minorleaguebaseball.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?pos=P&amp;sid=milb&amp;t=p_pbp&amp;pid=502067\">this guy<\/a>, formerly of the Texas organization.\u00a0 Did he get thrown into a trade somewhere?\u00a0 He seems too young to have been a minor league free agent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sammy Solis <\/strong> is hurt and will be on (presumably) low-A&#8217;s DL to start the year.<\/li>\n<li>Where is <strong>Billy Ott<\/strong>?\u00a0 Ott is listed on the Auburn short-A squad, which makes no sense since it won&#8217;t start play til mid June.\u00a0 He may be in extended spring.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hansen<\/strong>, <strong>Jenkins <\/strong>and <strong>Jordan <\/strong>making the jump from last year&#8217;s short-A squad.\u00a0 <strong>Manno <\/strong>jumping straight from the GCL (the only one going to a full-season squad apparently).<\/li>\n<li>I really don&#8217;t know who will be the closer; of the list of guys there only Selik even had a save last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Missing from 2010:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ott and Hicks: they ended the year in Hagerstown&#8217;s rotation and now they&#8217;re not on any full season roster.<\/li>\n<li>Bronson: I thought he&#8217;d be in the high-A rotation; now he&#8217;s not even on any full season roster?<\/li>\n<li>Other names not on any full-season squad: Arnold, Vasquez, Weaver, Erb, Garcia, Gibson.\u00a0 Weaver is a bit surprising; he seemed to be throwing decently well last year.\u00a0 Perhaps he&#8217;s hurt.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Willems<\/strong>: the former supp-1st rounder who retired mid 2010.<\/li>\n<li><strong>McGeary<\/strong>: on the mend from tommy john surgery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Masn&#8217;s Byron Kerr for the release of the Hagerstown roster on 4\/4\/11.\u00a0 While most people will be focused on one Bryce Harper&#8216;s inclusion on this roster, I&#8217;m interested (per the title of the blog) in the pitchers.\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the list, cut-n-pasted from Kerr&#8217;s article.: LHP Paul Applebee RHP Sam Brown RHP Wilson Eusebio [&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":[164,265,853],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minorspitching","tag-bryce-harper","tag-byron-kerr","tag-tommy-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","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=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7564,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/7564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}