As it has been historically, the Harrisburg Senators were the first of the four full-season affiliates to release their 2014 Opening Day Roster (2014 watchlist players in bold, 2014 notables in italics):
PITCHERS | INFIELDERS | OUTFIELDERS | CATCHERS |
Gabriel Alfaro | Justin Bloxom | Destin Hood | Mitch Canham |
Colin Bates | Cutter Dykstra | Caleb Ramsey | Sandy Leon |
A.J. Cole | Ricky Hague | Michael Taylor | |
Rob Gilliam | Jason Martinson | Drew Vettleson | |
Matt Grace | Sean Nicol | ||
Tyler Herron | Matt Skole | ||
Neil Holland | |||
Zach Jackson | |||
Richie Mirowksi | |||
Ryan Perry | |||
Matt Purke | |||
Felipe Rivero | |||
Blake Schwartz |
As it should be, this is a roster laden with the organization’s top talent — 17 of the 25 are on this site’s 2014 Watchlist along three of the Baseball America Top 10 prospects (Cole, Skole, & Taylor) and three more that were ranked in the Top 20 for the Nationals (Purke) and Tampa Bay (Rivero & Vettleson).
Busy day today, so I’m off to write up the next roster release…