{"id":980,"date":"2011-04-05T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2011-04-05T12:22:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:22:50","slug":"high-a-potomac-roster-set-reactions-to-named-pitchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"High-A Potomac Roster set: Reactions to named Pitchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was out of town, and away from computer for the long weekend.\u00a0 A bad time to be away for my particular blog, which endeavors to talk about the pitching staffs of both the big club and the farm systems.\u00a0 After announcing AAA and AA rosters earlier, the high-A and low-A rosters were announced on 4\/4\/11.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the slate of high-A pitchers, per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masnsports.com\/byron_kerr\/2011\/04\/potomac-nationals-reveal-2011-roster.html\">Byron Kerr&#8217;s masn article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RHP Alex Caldera<br \/>\nLHP Mitchell Clegg<br \/>\nLHP Ryan Demmin<br \/>\nRHP Paul Demny<br \/>\nRHP Marcos Frias<br \/>\nRHP Trevor Holder<br \/>\nRHP Pat Lehman<br \/>\nRHP Carlos Martinez<br \/>\nRHP Kyle Morrison<br \/>\nRHP Adam Olbrychowski<br \/>\nLHP Danny Rosenbaum<br \/>\nLHP Josh Smoker<br \/>\nRHP Rob Wort<\/p>\n<p>Based on these pitcher&#8217;s roles in the past, here&#8217;s my guess as to roles for this team:<\/p>\n<p>starters: Caldera, Holder, Demny, Rosenbaum, Clegg<br \/>\nbullpen: Frias, Smoker, Wort (closer?), Morrison, Lehman, Demmin (loogy?), CMartinez, Olbrychowski<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I initially predicted <strong>Frias, Rosenbaum, Bronson, Fabian, Applebee, Lehman <\/strong>for this rotation.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Frias<\/strong> probably gets demoted to being a spot starter based on last year&#8217;s high ERA in the starter role.\u00a0 Same with <strong>Lehman<\/strong> to a certain extent.\u00a0 <strong>Clegg<\/strong> and <strong>Demny<\/strong> must have had great springs; i thought they&#8217;d be back in low-A.\u00a0 <strong>Holder<\/strong> I thought would be moved up to AA; he may be first in line to be promoted.\u00a0\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see where Bronson, Fabian and Applebee end up once they announce the low-A roster.<\/li>\n<li>Where is <strong>Robinson Fabian<\/strong>?\u00a0 I thought he&#8217;d be in the high-A rotation after getting a handful of starts last\u00a0 year, but he doesn&#8217;t appear on any roster right now.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minorleaguebaseball.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?pos=P&amp;sid=milb&amp;t=p_pbp&amp;pid=463036\">Carlos Martinez<\/a>?\u00a0 He&#8217;s 27 and basically has pitched at the single-A level in our system for years.\u00a0 Is this still a prospect?\u00a0 Or is his placement on the roster more of a filler\/rubber arm mop up guy?<\/li>\n<li>New faces to the organization: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minorleaguebaseball.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?pos=P&amp;sid=milb&amp;t=p_pbp&amp;pid=446292\">Adam Olbrychowski<\/a> <\/strong>is our trade bounty for <strong>Justin Maxwell<\/strong>.\u00a0 He is a converted starter who had some AA time last year but starts in high-A.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minorleaguebaseball.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?pos=P&amp;sid=milb&amp;t=p_pbp&amp;pid=518521\"><strong>Alex Caldera<\/strong><\/a> was purchased from Kansas City earlier this spring training.\u00a0 He was a Carolina league all star last year but struggled in AA, so he&#8217;s essentially repeating this level.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m guessing <strong>Josh Smoker<\/strong>&#8216;s days as a starter are over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Missing from last year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Atwood<\/strong>, <strong>Pecina<\/strong>, <strong>JEstrada <\/strong>all either retired or were released mid 2010.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jaime <\/strong>was released and claimed, <strong>Morris <\/strong>was traded.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fabian<\/strong>, <strong>Dill<\/strong>, <strong>Phillibaum<\/strong>, <strong>Alaniz<\/strong>, <strong>Testa <\/strong>and <strong>Beno<\/strong>: no idea where these guys are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out of town, and away from computer for the long weekend.\u00a0 A bad time to be away for my particular blog, which endeavors to talk about the pitching staffs of both the big club and the farm systems.\u00a0 After announcing AAA and AA rosters earlier, the high-A and low-A rosters were announced on [&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-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minorspitching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}