Short Season A and Rookie League Ball talk - UPDATE

It should be about a week before the short season teams start. Right now the whole rosters have not been put out, but it looks like the GCL Pirates in Rookie League are going to be very exciting.

They currently have listed as on their team Stetson Allie and Luis Heredia. If that were not enough Nick Kingham and Ryan Hafner are on this squad. I will be watching these guys a lot. Bryan Trepagnier and Kevin Kleis are familiar names also on staff. Another interesting name, not so much because he is a prospect, is Sheng-Cin Hong from Taiwan.

I am not so sure about the non pitchers on this roster. I am not sure that they are all right because they include some people you would expect to be at a higher level this year like Junior Sosa and Joey Schoenfeld. Still you probably should expect to see Jared Lakind playing first base, so that hitters will be not be all unknowns.

The State College Spikes have a much more trustworthy looking semi-roster up. They have Zack Dodson on their staff. He is probably just waiting for someone to depart West Virginia because he was not bad there, but he is the odd man out in that crowded rotation. Logan Pevny and James Archibald join Dodson on that staff along with lesser known names like Mitchel Fienemann for Australia who will be a starter, and Joely Rodriguez who had a fairly successful stint in the Rookie League last year. He will probably start. They only have four position players on the roster right now two catchers: Miguel Mendez and Matthew Skirving, making it seem more probable that Schoenfeld will be in the GCL. And short stop Walter Gourley, a 2009 draftee, and Jodaneli Carvajal who seems to be making a leap from the DSL and playing second. You can expect a few quick signings to probably bolster this team including: Brian Sharp, SS, 21st round; Derek Trent, C, 31st round; and I think that the Pirates will also get Taylor Lewis, OF, fairly fast despite him being a junior. There are some others that I am unsure whether they are juniors or seniors right off hand, and I am too lazy to look it up. But eventually this team will include Daniel Gamache, 3B, and Alex Dickerson, OF/1B, and then they will be something to watch in the hitting department.

A lot of good stuff to watch here. Hoping we get a few signings soon. I am breaking out into cold sweats waiting for this stuff.

UPDATE:
According to Jennifer Langosh the Pirates have assigned Stetson Allie to State College, not to GCL Rookie league. This is more in line with where expectations would have had him. Now the only thing to figure out is why they have him on the Roster for the GCL Pirates at MLB.com. Either way this is good news for the Pirate organization. I was a little worried that his control issues were not going well for him to start in Rookie League.

Also the Pirates drafted 4 total seniors, who should all sign fairly quickly and be at State College. I remembered two, who the other two are escapes me right now.