Breaking Down Frisco’s ‘Break Camp’ Roster
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There will be minor league baseball in 2021. Which, y’know, wasn’t the case in 2020.
That reminder is one of the first things that jumped out to me while reading the “Break Camp” roster released by the Frisco RoughRiders yesterday, the full version of which features a column labeled “last team” that notes when and where each player suited up most recently.
Twenty-two of the 24 names listed haven’t played in a professional game since 2019, with the exceptions being Sherten Apostel, who got into seven games with the big league club last season, and 2017 fifth-round pick Jake Latz, who killed off some pandy time in indy ball with the Sugarland Skeeters.
April 14, 2021
Prospect writers Kevin Goldstein and Eric Longenhagen will sometimes have enough player notes to compile a scouting post. This is one of those dispatches, a collection of thoughts after another weekend of college baseball, minor league spring training, and big league action. Remember, prospect rankings can be found on The Board.
Kevin’s Notes
Jonathan Cannon, RHP, Georgia: 7 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 9 K
After throwing 11.2 scoreless innings out of the pen last spring as a freshman for Georgia, Cannon entered the year as a potential late-first round pick this summer, earning draft eligibility as a sophomore due to age. He’s had an up-and-down season, but was at his best over the weekend as he shutdown one of the top teams in the country in Vanderbilt, while throwing 75 of his 111 pitches for strikes. At 6-foot-6 and 215 pounds, Cannon has a classic starting pitcher’s frame to go with an on-line delivery and clean arm action. On the season his stats don’t impress,
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SURPRISE, Ariz. Throughout the offseason and Spring Training, Rangers manager Chris Woodward has said that the team needs to get “creative” with its pitching rotation early in the 2021 season.
It now seems that will likely manifest itself as two sets of tandem-type starters behind the trio of Kyle Gibson, Kohei Arihara and Mike Foltynewicz. Dane Dunning, Taylor Hearn, Kyle Cody, Wes Benjamin and Kolby Allard are all in competition for those piggyback roles.
“There s some strategy to it, you know, putting guys with one after another,” Woodward said. “You’ve got to have opposite arms, obviously, with one guy throwing two-seamers this way and another guy throwing 97 this way. Just matching them up the best way possible. I think this is something we re definitely talking about.”
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Mar 12, 2021
The Texas Rangers have announced the next line of roster moves as the regular season inches closer and closer.
First baseman Curtis Terry, a career minor-leaguer, remains in the mix for the Opening Day roster. Terry is among a list of older players who are still in a prospect status . However, the Rangers sent a clear message to Terry that his work hasn t gone unnoticed. He s a good player, man, Chris Woodward said. Curt Terry has done everything possible in the world to prove he deserves a shot in the big leagues at some point.
Terry, 24, was the Rangers 13th-round pick in the 2015 MLB Draft. After five years on the Rangers farm, Terry has made a name for himself with a very powerful bat. He hasn t played above Class-A baseball, but the unique 2020 season broke that barrier, as the Rangers called up five similar players to the big leagues last year.