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Catching up on Transactions

Catching Up On Transactions
After some April Fools fun, it’s time to cleanse the palate and take a look at the latest transactions (all releases, unfortunately):

SYRACUSE
• Released 3B Zach Cox
• Released RHP P.J. Walters
• Released 1B Marquez Smith

HARRISBURG
• Released LF Randolph Oduber
• Released C Craig Manuel

HAGERSTOWN
• Released 2B Conor Keniry

AUBURN
• Released 2B Melvin Rodriguez

GCL NATIONALS
• Released LF Philip Diedrick

Maybe it’s me, it seems like there are lot more releases this year. I’d like to think that perhaps the slow boat to China facade of extended spring training has fallen out of favor, but I could be proven wrong in a day or two when the rosters are announced.

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  1. ThOse were some quick releases
    After Camp Day .
    Clear the deck with Kinery and Mel- Rod
    Here comes JJ and DD

  2. I think this bodes very well. The releases were castoffs at the upper level, aged out, and at lower level, directly reflected the products of competition. The Nats had a void in the middle infield at the lower levels last year. Now, through development, maturation, and heavy drafting in 2015, the competition is shaking out (and will continue to shake out). Something had to give. Mejia and Lora’s progress was a pleasant surprise, and Dulin, Sagdal, and Schrock earned their way up. I’m actually surprised by some of the players who made it through cuts.

    Still waiting on that PTBNL from the Jays. Hoping for a Latin talent for the lower levels to feed in at Auburn or GCL.

    1. Perhaps the Jays are (wisely) waiting to see if Storen repeats the pattern of underperforming due to the perceived sleight of not regularly pitching in the 9th inning when Toronto is ahead by three runs or less.

      1. Looks to me like he couldn’t vulture the job away from Osuna. The 21 year old looks to continue as the close while Drew ends up once again, as a setup guy and backup closer.

      3. I was catching your slow boat to China
        With the rest of XST
        Driving home from viera vs full planes

  3. Sorry to see Oduber go, but I guess he made the most of being a very low draft pick. He was one of many for whom the jump from High A to AA was just too much.

  4. There goes the only left-handed catcher … but it he was left far behind by both Severino and Kieboom.

  5. According to his Twitter account, Lucas Giolito is heading back to Harrisburg to start the season. He’s doing a road trip up along with Isaac Ballou and Reynaldo Lopez. I’m going to try to catch a Senators game this season before he’s promoted, but I imagine he’s not long for Harrisburg.

  6. That would be quite a development, if Ballou were headed to Harrisburg. Says a lot about the OF talent at Syracuse; Ballou performed well there last year and is old for the level. Hoping he dominates AA and continues to climb. So refreshing to see depth really affect placements in the Nats organization.

  7. Now we wait to see how brass
    Compliments norfolk and Bautista
    @ harrisburg : Wooten repeat ??
    Eyes on N Mesa. PotomAc repeat
    Or sens. I bet he joins Carey in Potnats
    Outfield grouping

  8. Jeff, what did you see this spring, having watched the games. Who impressed you the most, and why?

    Who is where is anyone’s guess. Syracuse with a Difo/Turner and Sizemore and Martinson tells me Martinson will play OF as well, and Skole to 1B, although Skole fared well at 3B last year. Martinson has a lot of value as a multi-position athlete if he can stop streaking and cut the K’s. And then there is Keyes, Goodwin(?), denDekker. What of Shawn Pleffner? Great starting rotation coming to the ‘cuse, and all those BP who did not make the bog club. Who gets the late innings.

    Harrisburg – Bautista, Vettleson, Ballou, Bostick, Kieboom. Not bad. Wooten/DeBruin for 3B/1B / Getting old for lower. Don’t forget Alec Keller. Veteran rotation of Simms, Giolito. Now Lopez, Mapes, Williams, Valdez? Rauh? Silvestre? Nick Lee in pen, Mendez and others still around to take the next step. Orlan?

    Lots of OF for Potnats. More releases to come. Stevenson, Carey a good bet. Page?

    1. Stopping @ ft pedro
      With the big metal sombrero
      Slow traffic out of south ŠC
      More later Gil

    4. Grissom. We will all be like this
      With Edwin Lora on and off the diamond .
      Kelvin G and Edwin will be vacuums on Suns
      LH infield side.
      Ryan Ripkin provided some humor as he
      Decided not to slide heading into HP vs Braves
      On Thursday ending up in a tagout. Maybe it’s
      Best he doesn’t slide and avoid injury to himself
      And the catcher. 6 foot five is a lot to lay down in
      The dirt .
      DeBruna looked good @SS in an infield
      Exercise with Franco @ 3B, Lora @SS too
      Dulin @2b ( hence the Kinery release) with
      DiNatale @ 1b
      Fyi number 4 from fighting Illini. David Keirnen
      Played 1b behind Ripkin in later phase of
      ThursdAy scrimmage. More athletic guy
      Less moving body parts than RR. No offense
      Meant to
      Dietrich truly lost in numbers game behind
      Agustin , Daryl F. Ortiz ….
      No idea on Randy Encarnacion with no
      Sighting in batting cages or fields
      SI much going on. Same with Israel Mota.

      Tyler Watson looked ok in bullpen work
      And sounded good in catchers leather
      Same for conner Porter out of Memphis University.

      My mind reverted to brien taylor yanx hard luck
      Kid in bar fight : taylor Hearn take that lesson
      Crash davis gives nuke laroosh about bar fights
      . 100 mph is like what crash davis told nuke
      About the heavenly blessing on the team bus.

      Repeat Borne crownover , Louisiana lefty
      G—– in hagerstown cell group for exercises
      Friday

    5. You guys get the feeling that brass
      Was debating Suns roster over a pot
      Of coffee to this moment !?!
      Double bagged coffee!

    6. Grissom you echoed earlier this winter about
      How the upper levels are being barn floor swept
      To make room for the kids coming out of hagerstown
      From this year’s crop
      Evidence in Perez being the main guy bumped to
      AA. I thought brass might push the envelope on
      Norfolk but give the system 30 days to see if
      Chafffe Seperates from wheat
      Right ?

  9. Grissom
    The standard MO with cell groups
    Playing for each 1A1F squad according
    Alphabet group (AAÀ/AA)
    Seemed to be that some kids would play a level
    Above their previous season level
    Franco 3b would play one afternoon with

    PotomAc while other guys would hand in
    Low A

    Kelvin Gutierrez was not missing any balls @ 3 b
    In infield drills
    Sagdal and wiseman hit the ball in gaps
    Schrock hit HR
    Quietly Brandt looked good @ SS. He warranted
    a wave of huhs to the umps on a 6-3 backhand
    Throw to 1st on Braves runner who was called
    Safe
    Barrett looks in great shape as good as his
    Werth knome beating beard. Lol

  10. Page and Gardner were with hags squad
    Scrimmage with Braves that birthday
    Afternoon of mine
    They did give Jeff Gardner number 7 in camp

    1. More entertaining sitting in bleacher seats
      Listening to certain A ball pitchers discussing
      Best watering holes in affiliate towns lol

  12. This is the last chance to talk about the ‘Groovin Aruban’. Randolph Oduber was given a low 6 figure bonus out of the 30th round and we all followed him for about 5 years now.
    He lasted a little longer than I thought.
    Good luck to him.

    1. Ah. Always had a bit of a soft spot for him, in a prospect fanboy kind of way (you know, when you attach hopes to someone for no apparent reason other than – you do.)

      Hope he catches on somewhere else.

        1. Luke I will stick with Anderson “s group vs
          ATL in 3/31 1F squad minus Kinery .
          And Mel-Rod.
          Ripken / Kiernen 1b
          Kevin G ( Franco ) 3b
          Loria and Brandt SS
          Sagdal Jeffries. UTL

          Robles flanked by Agustin and wiseman
          Dulin page gardner

          Tilerio and Luis V.
          Reetz DH C. 1b??
          Mayers. Oh yeah

          U will hear no more from me until release
          Dog walking , Luke

    1. I’m not sure that really is their opening day roster. I’d be staggered, for example, if Austin Voth isn’t in AAA to open the season.

      1. Correct. I won’t be able to make a post until tomorrow a.m. but I’ve got rosters for the top three levels so far.

  15. My surprise for farm rosters
    Is norfolk being OG utility Guy
    With Csrey and Mesa in OF for
    Potnats until Robles moves up.
    LeCroy can use cutter and Bostick
    In OF in a pinch
    Right, Gil?

  17. Much bigger surprises about who did not move up and even who moved down or out. All through the system. Kevin Keyes and Ike Ballou to AA, while Goodwin gets the bump up. Congratulations to him for winning the competition. Drew Vettleson out of the system. Carey gets the sink or swim shot while the prospects at A- play for the promotion.

    Turner to AAA means Difo to AA, still at SS.

    Did anyone predict Michael Brady and Trevor Gott would start on equal footing?

    Harrisburg starting rotation also features the quietly rising Mapes. Benincasa nowhere in sight – gone?

    Sad to see Silvestre and Turnbull still DL. Bad luck with lefties.

    Andrew Lee my highest pitching prospect who did not get promoted. Luis Reyes does. Mario Sanchez does. Why they call it competition. And thus unheralded Dominicans continue to ascend from the shadows of Rey Lopez.

    Or, letting Lee develop more as a starter.

    Ryan Brinley gets the bump up. Another low draft wonder trying to break the AA glass ceiling?

    1. Well said
      Vettleson was a bust
      Wooten and DeBruin being maybe gone
      Could lead one to say that the future lies in
      Hags kids and June draft 16 kids .
      Some guys were just buying time for others
      In last year or so

  18. Looks like Spann, Wooten, and DeBruin also gone. Wooten the biggest surprise for me. Looked like he had turned the corner in 2014 Potomac championship run.

  19. We’ll find out in time, but have there been any accompanying press releases about the names that Forensicane has mentioned as out of the system – or might this be another case of the notorious “extended spring training” whilst rehabbing an injury?

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