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		<title>Blue Jays Activate Estrada and Morales, Option Loup and Burns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Turk]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Blue Jays have announced that Marco Estrada and Franklin Morales have been activated off of the 15 and 60 day disabled lists, respectively, while Aaron Loup and Andy Burns have been optioned to AAA Buffalo to make room for the pair. To make room for Morales on the 40-man roster, RHP Dustin Antolin was [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Blue Jays have announced that Marco Estrada and Franklin Morales have been activated off of the 15 and 60 day disabled lists, respectively, while Aaron Loup and Andy Burns have been optioned to AAA Buffalo to make room for the pair. To make room for Morales on the 40-man roster, RHP Dustin Antolin was designated for assignment.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueJays">@BlueJays</a> have reinstated Marco Estrada and Franklin Morales from the DL. Aaron Loup and Andy Burns have been optioned to <a href="https://twitter.com/BuffaloBisons">@BuffaloBisons</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Blue Jays (@BlueJays) <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/756568194903597058">July 22, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Estrada, 33, the Blue Jays ace, has been his dominant self this season, with a 2.93 ERA in 16 starts. He makes his return after a brief time on the disabled list with a back injury. While he has been away the Blue Jays have carried an eight man bullpen, and that will continue with Morales also getting the call up. It&#8217;s an interesting strategy for a team that has starting pitching staff that leads the majors in innings pitched, but it&#8217;s likely to change in the coming days as the team cannot continue to carry relievers who aren&#8217;t getting the job done.</p>
<p>Morales, 30, was signed by the Blue Jays on April 2nd of this year with hopes that he would help stabilize the situation in the bullpen. However, after making just two appearances and recording a grand total of two outs, he was placed on the disabled list with shoulder fatigue. He has been on a rehab assignment in the minor leagues for the past 30 days, but now that his allowed time has run out, the Blue Jays needed to make a decision; release him or call him up to the big leagues.</p>
<p>He has been good as recently as last season with the Kansas City Royals, when he pitched in 62 1/3 innings and recorded an ERA of 3.18. His repertoire consists of a four-seam fastball that averages 92 mph, a two-seamer at the same speed, a slider at 88 mph, and a curve at 75 mph. In two innings with the Dunedin Blue Jays during his rehab stint, Morales allowed one hit, walked two, an struck out three. For the Buffalo Bisons, he pitched nine innings with an ERA of 2.00, striking out six and walking two. With Brett Cecil struggling and Loup being optioned, Morales could start to become an integral member of the Blue Jays bullpen if he can retire left handed batters at a decent rate.</p>
<p>Loup, 28, has really struggled, and has been up and down between Buffalo and Toronto this season, with a 6.00 ERA in 10 games for Toronto. He hasn&#8217;t shown the ability to get batters out like he did from 2012-2014, another example of the volatility of relief pitchers.</p>
<p>Burns, 25, is a fringe player at this point, and it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if he was back in Toronto another couple of times before being called up for good in September. He has yet to record his first major league hit, reaching base on a walk once in his seven big league plate appearances.</p>
<p><em>Lead Photo: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports</em></p>
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		<title>How Well Has Toronto Been Using the 25th Roster Spot?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Passador]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toronto’s recent series against the Philadelphia Phillies saw the appearance of a familiar face: Jimmy Paredes. The Blue Jays claimed Paredes off waivers from the Orioles on May 16, only to designate him for assignment on the 30th and ship him to Philadelphia on June 1st. After notching a .886 OPS in his 17 Blue [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Toronto’s recent series against the Philadelphia Phillies saw the appearance of a familiar face: Jimmy Paredes. The Blue Jays claimed Paredes off waivers from the Orioles on May 16, only to designate him for assignment on the 30<sup>th</sup> and ship him to Philadelphia on June 1<sup>st</sup>. After notching a .886 OPS in his 17 Blue Jay at bats, Paredes was traded for cash considerations. When Paredes stepped to the plate, Pat Tabler lamented that the team had to let him go and referred to the notion that the Jays ‘just didn’t have room for him.’</p>
<p>With apologies to Mr. Tabler, that’s a statement that didn’t quite sit well at first. It seems like the Blue Jays often have a frustratingly short bench and a bullpen that has one guy who never gets enough work in. While that makes for simple math, it’s something I wanted to investigate. Who have the Jays been using in their final roster spot and were their performances more valuable than Paredes’ admittedly short stint of production?</p>
<p>On the offensive side of the equation Paredes seemed to fill a need for the Jays, who could probably use a bench bat considering the current options, regardless of how adequately some of those players have performed so far. With a usual bench of Josh Thole, Ryan Goins, Darwin Barney, and Ezequiel Carrera (now Darrell Ceciliani), pinch hitting late in games seems futile beyond the instances where Edwin Encarnacion starts at first base and pushes Justin Smoak to the bench.</p>
<p>A jack of all trades and a master of none, Paredes can play around the infield as well as in the outfield but is generally a subpar defender no matter where you put him. His defensive deficiencies definitely didn’t help his case, but the team can probably afford to carry a bad defender who will be limited to mostly pinch hitting duties. If you were to pinch hit for, say Darwin Barney, you could get Paredes an at bat and then insert Ryan Goins (or more likely Devon Travis, assuming full health) into the game defensively.</p>
<p>Since the team is insistent on carrying four middle infielders when at full health, we can assume that the final bench spot was sacrificed so the team could add another reliever to the mix. Looking at this season’s end-of-bench hitters (chronologically by call-up date) shows just three players who haven’t performed well in limited at bats, Paredes excepted:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/25thHitters.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-4079 aligncenter" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/25thHitters.jpg" alt="25thHitters" width="718" height="154" /></a></p>
<p>It’s unfair to ask anyone to try and hit major league pitching right away, especially when they’re given less than one plate appearance for each day spent with the big club. Additionally, the recent AAA assignment of Andy Burns marked the first time this season that a position player was not sent down to bring up a pitcher, as the activated Troy Tulowitzki took Burns’ spot on the roster. It’s clear that the Jays view Dominguez and Burns as insurance policies more than anything and getting them at bats is not one of the team’s primary goals. While it’s nice to have guys who can step in in case of injury, the Blue Jays could attempt to maximize their bench output in the meantime by having a legitimate pinch hitting threat.</p>
<p>With that in mind it’s pretty obvious that the team likes to call on relievers more often than not. The Jays typically run a seven man bullpen but will occasionally carry eight relievers, much to the chagrin of some fans, myself obviously included. When the team brings up an eighth reliever, there is usually simple logic to follow that rationalizes the move. They could be trying to bring up additional arms to get their usual guys some extra rest. They could be calling up certain pitchers for matchup purposes; like if a lefty heavy lineup is on the horizon. And finally, if the bullpen’s current members aren’t up to snuff, they could simply be trying a new solution.</p>
<p>The strong performance of Toronto’s rotation points to conflicting notions about the rest idea. The starters are more often than not only leaving 6-9 outs for the bullpen to record, which is good for the collective bullpen but probably puts undue stress on the top relievers. While the Jays would like to ease the burden on their trusted arms, no single reliever should be too overworked. Given the general mediocrity (though thankfully upward trend) of most of the Blue Jay relievers, the final spot has also served as a revolving door for different pitchers to show that they can stick with the big club.</p>
<p>The list of names hasn’t been all that inspiring, but having an effective mop up guy could pay off later. Everyone would take one step up the ladder, so pitchers like Jesse Chavez and Gavin Floyd will handle fewer low leverage innings and are better rested for situations that call for quality pitchers. In essence, a quality 7<sup>th</sup> reliever takes away an inning that would otherwise be wasted on superior pitchers. Given Roberto Osuna’s nagging ailments this year, the team has to be aching for some extra depth to both save arms and elevate top performers. So how have those alternatives looked?</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/25thPitchers.jpg"><img class="  aligncenter wp-image-4080" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/25thPitchers.jpg" alt="25thPitchers" width="449" height="168" /></a></p>
<p>As you can see, the results have been underwhelming so far. Rather than look at the season as a whole, I broke down each reliever’s numbers by their specific stretch with the Blue Jays.</p>
<p><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PitcherStints.jpg"><img class="  wp-image-4081 aligncenter" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PitcherStints.jpg" alt="PitcherStints" width="817" height="295" /></a></p>
<p>On the whole, the last reliever on the roster is used in low leverage situations (by aLI), with the only exception being Ryan Tepera’s shrimp game in San Francisco. Even then, John Gibbons only called on Tepera because every other pitcher had been used aside from Roberto Osuna, who had pitched the previous two games. That low leverage use is ideal and accomplishes the goals outlined above concerning resting superior pitchers in less important situations, but it does raise the question of whether this rotating cast of characters is worth keeping over an extra bench bat considering they pitch so infrequently.</p>
<p>Aside from extended and ongoing stints by Chad Girodo and Aaron Loup’s 19 days on the roster, the bullpen call-ups might appear once per series. Tepera and Pat Venditte both had more than six days off at one point or another, and if the team really wants to give their high leverage guys an inning off every once in a while they certainly would be using these bottom bullpen players more often. So for the longer stints (we’ll deal with the one game guys in a moment), just how long do these pitchers get to show their stuff?</p>
<p>The average stint is just shy of 10 days, and shrinks to just over eight when we remove Girodo’s abnormally long outlier stint. If we also remove Aaron Loup’s run on the roster, operating under the assumption that he was expected to be a permanent member of the bullpen, it drops to just over seven days. These relievers spend about a week with the Jays and appear once or twice.</p>
<p>As for the pitchers who only made one appearance, they have all been used fairly ideally with the exception of Tepera’s necessary involvement in San Francisco:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/1GamePitchers.jpg"><img class="  wp-image-4082 aligncenter" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/1GamePitchers.jpg" alt="1GamePitchers" width="636" height="395" /></a></p>
<p>Most of them took the mound in mop up duty during long stretches without an off day. If you want to give someone a chance to get work in, that’s the time to do it. For context, I looked at the amount of unique pitchers that Gibbons had called on over the previous two games. Two games was chosen as the cutoff simply because Gibbons often won’t use a pitcher on three consecutive nights. Aside from Tepera’s 13<sup>th</sup> inning outing, each other appearance came after five or six pitchers had seen action in the last two days. Beyond that, most of these damage control outings helped save a handful of more valuable pitchers from wasting innings in games that were all but over.</p>
<p>To sum it up, given the infrequent usage of the seventh man of the bullpen, there is almost never a reason to summon an eighth pitcher from Buffalo. That final spot would almost always be better spent on an extra bench bat. While having a player like Paredes around doesn’t guarantee John Gibbons would find him playing time, it seems like the last bullpen option has fewer opportunities to make an impact on the game. If anything, having both Barney and Goins on the roster makes having a pinch hitting specialist all the more palatable, especially late in games.</p>
<p>The team has actually done well to take a look at a few different pitchers this season in a Seventh Man role and while none have stuck so far, the Jays at least have an idea of what they’re working with. It might behoove the team to just give the spot to Loup, Girodo or Venditte and let them run with it in regular work, but there’s no harm in trying to get different pitchers acclimated to major league hitters in low leverage innings, especially earlier in the year. The negatives only truly arise when two spots are spent on players who appear infrequently at the expense of potential offensive upgrades. While the Blue Jays have tended to favor the safety net of a big bullpen, it might be time to think about the opportunity cost of doing so.</p>
<p><em>Lead Photos: Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports</em></p>
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		<title>Minor League Update: April 15th to May 11th Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 15:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tammy Rainey]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week BP Toronto is bringing back the Weekly Minor League Update. The format is slightly revised but if you followed the old Blue Jays Plus site, you’ll recognize the framework. What’s different? I’ll be choosing up to three top hitters and pitchers each week, instead of one. And the Other minor league notes section [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week BP Toronto is bringing back the Weekly Minor League Update. The format is slightly revised but if you followed the old Blue Jays Plus site, you’ll recognize the framework. What’s different? I’ll be choosing up to three top hitters and pitchers each week, instead of one. And the Other minor league notes section will lean towards placing recent performance in the context of year-to-date work rather than just being a snapshot of some random hot or cold streak. Of course, for this first edition, with a full month worth of states, I’m probably going to say a lot about the entire month this time, not just the most recent week. In this and future entries, which beginning with next week will be appearing on Saturdays, all references to current stats are through the games of the previous Wednesday. For this post, I used game stats through Sunday.</p>
<p><strong>Pitchers of the Week/Month</strong></p>
<p>1. <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=642590">Francisco Rios</a> &#8211; RHP &#8211; Lansing (Low A)</p>
<p>6 G &#8211; 30 IP &#8211; 1.20 ERA &#8211; 0.97 WHIP &#8211; 12.9 K/9 &#8211; 2.4 BB/9</p>
<p>In the time I spent reviewing Top Prospect lists in preparation for last week’s Aggregate List, some of them 30 or more names deep, only one of them made mention of Rios. To be fair, a look at his stats coming into this season would not have indicated there was any reason to. But the 2012 signee out of Mexico seems to have discovered something as he’s completely dominated the Midwest League in the first month of 2016. He had his best outing yet on Friday, which happened to be his 21st birthday, striking out 10 betters in 5.1 IP. Coming into the season, his K/9 was 7.6, and his BB/9 was 3.3 and a completely unimpressive 4.84 ERA over three years. Whether or not this is something promising, or a mirage, remains to be seen. Reports say he’s using four quality pitches now and the Blue Jays have decided to let him try his luck at Dunedin. His promotion was announced earlier in the week.</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=656887#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Sean Reid-Foley</a> &#8211; RHP &#8211; Lansing</p>
<p>4 G &#8211; 18.2 IP &#8211; 1.93 ERA &#8211; 1.13 WHIP &#8211; 9.6 K/9 &#8211; 4.8 BB/9</p>
<p>In contrast to the unheralded Rios, Reid-Foley has had one of the highest profiles in the organization as a 2014 draftee out of high school, and he was surprisingly assigned to full season last spring. The book on him is well known and a not-unfamiliar tale for pitchers with his ability. If he can minimize the free pass and control the strike zone he’ll earn the considerable praise that’s being heaped on him. The hidden story of the season so far is the (small sample caveat obviously in force) trend in a positive direction on that front. In his last two outings he struck out 12 and walked 2 over 8 innings.  He&#8217;s just off a stint on the 7-Day DL.</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=622780">Angel Perdomo</a> &#8211; LHP &#8211; Lansing</p>
<p>6 G &#8211; 23.1 IP &#8211; 2.31 ERA &#8211; 1.03 WHIP &#8211; 12.4 K/9 &#8211; 4.6 BB/9</p>
<p>Perdomo was a huge (6’6”) specimen signed out of the DR in December 2011, and he was brought along quite slowly. He accumulated almost 80 IP over three seasons on the lowest level (two in the Dominican Summer League, then another in the Gulf Coast League) and one might have been forgiven for assuming the team saw something they didn’t like. However, he broke out last year in a season split between Bluefield and Vancouver and he’s only increased that dominance in 2016. That said, he suffered his first setback Saturday on his 22nd birthday, so watch to see how he deals with that adversity.</p>
<p><strong>Hitters of the Week/</strong></p>
<p>1. <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=622806#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Juan Kelly</a> &#8211; C/1B &#8211; Lansing</p>
<p>99 PA &#8211; .293/.353/.522 &#8211; 2 HR &#8211; 2/2 SB &#8211; 7 BB &#8211; 21 K</p>
<p>A slender 21 year old Dominican who, like Perdomo, got his first professional work in 2012, Kelly is a relatively light hitter but he has lots of room to get stronger. His best talent so far is a robust career .358 OBP (though his walk rate is down a bit this year). At the moment, he’s part of a trio of hitters (along with Gunner Heidt and Andrew Guillote) carrying the Lugnuts offense.  He’s listed as a catcher, but also gets time at 1B when others are behind the dish.</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=542932">Jonathan Davis</a> &#8211; OF &#8211; Dunedin (High A)</p>
<p>115 PA &#8211; .269/.424/.484 &#8211; 4 HR &#8211; 9/10 SB &#8211; 22 BB &#8211; 28 K</p>
<p>One of the other Davises playing the outfield in the Toronto minor leagues (there are 3 in all), the 2013 15th round selection is another unheralded player but in a month of largely ordinary, or worse, hitting performances he’s the one doing almost everything right. Even though he’s tied with Rowdy Tellez for most walks in April, and only Dom Brown has more homers, he’s never shown a particular talent for either before, so he won’t be climbing the prospect lists just yet.</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=542932">Jon Berti</a> &#8211; 2B &#8211; New Hampshire (AA)</p>
<p>91 PA &#8211; .291/.411/.405 &#8211; 1 HR &#8211; 14/18 SB &#8211; 12 BB &#8211; 13 K (AA)</p>
<p>22 PA &#8211; .150/.227/.350 &#8211; 1 HR &#8211; 2/2 SB &#8211; 2 BB &#8211; 3 K (AAA)</p>
<p>Berti is a guy who, if you made a long enough prospect list, you’d start considering once you got into the 40s or so. And that&#8217;s only because he’s a gifted fielder and a very skilled baserunner with enough speed to steal 30 or more bases every year (his career high was 56 for Dunedin in 2013) and he already has 16 this year in the first month of the season alone. Berti, a college draftee, was moving one level at a time, reaching AA in 2014 at the age of 24. He started 2015 back there, before receiving a mid-season promotion to AAA Buffalo. He didn’t put the bat on the ball as well at the higher level, but one would have assumed the natural move would have been to assign him there, rather than back in AA this season, but with the Jays having packed the AAA roster with veteran talent, there was no room. All this is to express a bit of caution about his April performance. He’s 26 now, having his third go at AA, so it’s not a true reflection of his ability anymore. Still, under the right circumstances, probably in a different organization, he could get at least a little occasional major league time one of these years.</p>
<p><strong>Other Minor Notes</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=546990#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Dalton Pompey</a> &#8211; OF &#8211; Buffalo (AAA)</p>
<p>59 PA &#8211; .226/.305/.264 &#8211; 0 HR &#8211; 2/2 SB &#8211; 6 BB &#8211; 11 K</p>
<p>Open the season sidelined with a foot injury suffered in late spring, played a week, had to sit again for five days, came back for 2 games then sat again for eight days. He’s on his third game back and went 2/4 on Sunday to break up a disjointed stretch of games in which he went 1 for 28. Badly needs an extended run of games to get on track.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=542884#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Dustin Antolin</a> &#8211; RP &#8211; Buffalo<br />
10 G &#8211; 18 IP &#8211; 3.00 ERA &#8211; 1.39 WHIP &#8211; 11.5 K/9 &#8211; 5 BB/9</p>
<p>If you don’t count the fact that he was technically a minor league free agent last winter, Antolin is the longest serving player in the Jays minor league system (and only Brett Cecil outranks him on the major league squad), having been selected in the 11th round in 2008. The 26 year old Hawaiian has moved through the system with excruciating slowness. That was largely due to elevated walk rates which he seemed to have conquered in the two most recent previous seasons. He needs to get back to that if he wants to work his way into a crowded shuttle reliever contingent.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=546990#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Anthony Alford</a> &#8211; CF &#8211; Dunedin</p>
<p>7 G &#8211; 27 PA &#8211; .111/.200/.111 &#8211; 0 HR &#8211; 1/1 SB &#8211; 3 BB &#8211; 16 K<br />
Alford has only been back a week from a leg injury suffered on Opening Day on a play at the plate. So far he hasn’t gotten on track at all, and of course we can’t know if he’s still playing in some discomfort. Obviously we can’t read anything significant into the first week back after a month long layoff.</p>
<h3>Other Stat Lines of Interest</h3>
<table class="tftable" border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Hitter</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Pos.</th>
<th>Lvl</th>
<th>G</th>
<th>PA</th>
<th>AVG</th>
<th>OBP</th>
<th>SLG</th>
<th>HR</th>
<th>SB</th>
<th>BB</th>
<th>K</th>
<th>Misc.</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Rowdy Tellez</td>
<td> 21</td>
<td> 1B</td>
<td> AA</td>
<td>28</td>
<td> 117</td>
<td> .168</td>
<td> .314</td>
<td> .337</td>
<td> 4</td>
<td>0</td>
<td> 22</td>
<td> 25</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Roemon Fields</td>
<td> 25</td>
<td> CF</td>
<td> AA</td>
<td> 28</td>
<td> 128</td>
<td> .263</td>
<td> .320</td>
<td> .314</td>
<td>0</td>
<td> 11</td>
<td> 10</td>
<td> 21</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Richard Urena</td>
<td> 20</td>
<td> SS</td>
<td> A</td>
<td> 26</td>
<td> 114</td>
<td> .296</td>
<td> .345</td>
<td> .344</td>
<td> 3</td>
<td> 3</td>
<td> 6</td>
<td> 13</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> D.J. Davis</td>
<td> 21</td>
<td> OF</td>
<td> A</td>
<td> 25</td>
<td> 104</td>
<td> .200</td>
<td> .276</td>
<td> .295</td>
<td> 1</td>
<td> 7</td>
<td> 9</td>
<td> 34</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Jesus Montero</td>
<td> 26</td>
<td> 1B</td>
<td> AAA</td>
<td>31</td>
<td> 131</td>
<td> .297</td>
<td> .333</td>
<td> .407</td>
<td> 2</td>
<td> 0</td>
<td> 5</td>
<td> 25</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<table class="tftable" border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Pitcher</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Pos.</th>
<th>Lvl</th>
<th>G</th>
<th>IP</th>
<th>ERA</th>
<th>K/9</th>
<th>BB/9</th>
<th>Misc.</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Shane Dawson</td>
<td> 22</td>
<td> SP</td>
<td> AA</td>
<td> 4</td>
<td>20</td>
<td> 2.70</td>
<td> 7.7</td>
<td> 4.5</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Danny Barnes</td>
<td> 26</td>
<td> RP</td>
<td> AA</td>
<td> 10</td>
<td>15.1</td>
<td> 1.17</td>
<td> 10.6</td>
<td> 1.2</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Conner Greene</td>
<td> 21</td>
<td> SP</td>
<td> A</td>
<td> 7</td>
<td> 37.1</td>
<td> 3.13</td>
<td> 4.6</td>
<td> 4.1</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Adonys Cardona</td>
<td> 22</td>
<td> RP</td>
<td> A</td>
<td> 10</td>
<td> 11</td>
<td> 0.00</td>
<td> 4.1</td>
<td> 6.5</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Jon Harris</td>
<td> 22</td>
<td> SP</td>
<td> a</td>
<td> 4</td>
<td> 13.2</td>
<td> 1.98</td>
<td> 6.6</td>
<td> 5.3</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><em>Lead Photo: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports</em></p>
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