Home ALone 4 - Extended Spring Training

Every year there are guys in the Indians' organization who don't make a team out of spring training.   Some are cut, some bide their time until an opening is created by injury, promotion or release and some just are there getting their routine together in anticipation of the rookie league teams (Mahoning Valley and the AZL Indians) starting their seasons.

By my count there are still over 40 guys in extended spring training.    Some of these guys are true prospects.  For the Indians this year almost all the really good prospects still in extended spring training are pitchers.   Most of the true prospects will be assigned to Mahoning Valley, meaning that team should have a heck of a pitching staff. 

Here is a list of all the guys the Indians have in extended spring training and where I think they will be assigned once the short season/rookie league teams start.  As I said there are a significant number of prospects to dream on if you are looking for future Cleveland Indians.  If you haven't thought about it I would suggest for Ohio-based Indians fans, it looks like this might be a good year to travel to a game or two at Mahoning Valley as it looks like there will be a lot of top prospects on that team.

TRUE PROSPECTS

Brady Aiken - P - Mahoning Valley

Triston McKenzie - P - Mahoning Valley

Jonas Wyatt - P - AZL Indians

Juan Hillman - P - Mahoning Valley

Justin Garza - P - Mahoning Valley

Gabriel Mejia - OF - Mahoning Valley

Luke Wakamatsu - SS - AZL Indians

Grant Hockin - P - Mahoning Valley

BORDERLINE PROSPECTS

Alex Pantoja - SS - Mahoning Valley

Grofi Cruz - 3B - Mahoning Valley

Micah Miniard - P - Mahoning Valley

Todd Isaacs - OF - AZL Indians

Ryan Perez - P - Mahoning Valley

Ping-Hsueh Chen - C - Mahoning Valley

Jodd Carter - OF - Mahoning Valley

 

There are a number of other players still in extended spring training.  For these guys, they will be assigned where players are needed to fill out teams and some, in fact, may be released before the short season teams begin playing   Right now not many of them are true prospects.  The US (drafted) guys below are most likely truly just organizational players.  That is, they are there to fill roster spots with no real chance of ever making it to the majors.   Some of the foreign players below (e.g., Emmanuel Tapia) may develop into prospects but, right now, they are like the US organizational players, just guys who fill out the rosters to give the real prospects teams to play on.  For these reasons I haven't assigned them a team yet as their assignment will be based on the needs of these teams after the amateur draft in June.

US ORGANIZATIONAL PLAYERS

Randy Valladares

Argenis Angulo

G. Paul Gonzalez

Jordan Dunatov

Ryan Colegate

Simeon Lucas

Juan Gomes

Kevin Bradley

Devon Stewart

Jack Goihl

OTHER FOREIGN PLAYERS

Junior Soto  

Jorma Rodriguez

Luis Jimenez

Randy Marte

 D. Jimenez

Jose Medina

Henry Martinez

Leandro Linares

Erick Algarin

Jason Rodriguez

Juan Garcia

Miguel Eladio

 Erlin Cerda

 Emmanuel Tapia

 Angel Miguel

Li-Jen Chu

 Juan De La Cruz

Francisco Lopez