Moving on from 2011
The Yankees announced their list of 27 non-roster invitees to Major League Spring Training in Tampa earlier this week. Counting those members of the 40-man roster, plus the non-roster invites, there will be 67 players at Steinbrenner Field opening up Spring Training. Out of the 67 showing up inTampa, 31 have spent time in a SWB Yankees uniform. 22 players on the current Yankees 40 man roster and 9 of the 27 non-roster invitees have played for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
NY Yankees press release regarding the 27 non-roster invites to Major League Spring Training. http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120208&content_id=26622054&vkey=pr_nyy&c_id=nyy
Out of the 67 that will begin Spring Training, there will be 25 active players heading north to open the season for New York. The other 42 will open the year somewhere else, some in the Yankees Minor League system, some with other organizations and some without a place to play. Without a pitch being thrown or a ball put in play it is perhaps a bit early to speculate (with any level of certainty) who will open the season with SWB on April 5th inAllentown againstLehighValley. Instead of taking a look at who may be with SWB in 2012, let’s take a look at the 2011 SWB Yankees and see where they landed during the off season.
The 2011 SWB Yankees used 63 different players in and finished the season with a 73-69 record failing to make the IL Playoffs for the first time ever as a Yankees affiliate. 32 of the 63 players that spent time on the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre roster in 2011 (as regulars or MLB rehabs) either have new homes for 2012 or soon will (22 have signed with new teams and 10 remain free agents).
Out of the 10 players that at this point are still free agents, just three of those players were on the SWB roster when the 2011 season came to a close at PNC Field on September 5th vs.Buffalo. Pitcher Eric Wordekemper, infielder Mike Lamb and catcher P.J. Pilittere are the only players on the SWB final 24 man roster to end the season that have not either re-signed with the Yankees or found new teams. Six players on the final SWB regular season roster have new organizations for the upcoming season: pitchers Andrew Brackman, Logan Kensing and Hector Noesi, infielder Luis Nunez and outfielders Greg Golson and Jordan Parraz will be with new organizations in 2012.
The 63 players that appeared on the 2011 SWB Yankees roster and where they have landed for 2012
PITCHERS (39)
Wilkins Arias – LHP: 0-0, 13.50 ERA, 1G, 0.2 IP / Free Agent
Luis Ayala – RHP (MLB Rehab): 0-0, 1.80 ERA, 3G, 5.0 IP / Free Agent*
Manny Banuelos – LHP: 2-2, 4.19 ERA 7G, 7GS, 34.1 IP / Non-roster invite to NY Yankees Spring Training
Dellin Betances – RHP: 0-3, 5.14 ERA, 4G, 4GS, 21.0 IP / NY Yankees 40-man roster
Andrew Brackman – RHP: 3-6,1SV, 6.00 ERA, 33G, 13 GS, 96.0 IP /Cincinnati Reds
Buddy Carlyle – RHP: 2-2, 1SV, 3.98 ERA, 27G, 2GS, 43.0 IP /Atlanta Braves
Randy Flores – LHP: 1-3, 4SV, 3.07 ERA, 29G, 29.1 IP / Free Agent
Freddy Garcia – RHP (MLB Rehab): 1-0, 4.50 ERA, 1G, 4.0 IP / NY Yankees active roster
Brian Gordon – RHP: 0-0, 0.00 ERA, 1G, 1GS, 5.0 IP / Samsung Lions (Korea)
Schaeffer Hall – LHP: 1-0, 2.84 ERA, 1G, 1GS, 6.1 IP / NY Yankees
Fernando Hernandez – RHP: 0-0, 9.00 ERA, 1G, 2.0 IP / Free Agent
Kei Igawa – LHP: 1-0, 2.78 ERA, 4G, 4GS, 22.2 IP / Free Agent
LoganKensing – RHP: 1-1, 4 SV, 4.28 ERA, 21G, 27.1 IP /Pittsburgh Pirates
George Kontos – RHP: 4-4, 2 SV, 2.62 ERA 40G, 4GS, 89.1 IP / NY Yankees active roster
Aaron Laffey – LHP: 0-1, 7.36 ERA, 2G, 1GS, 3.2 IP /Toronto Blue Jays
Kevin Millwood – RHP: 1-1, 8.00 ERA, 2G, 2GS, 9.0 IP /Colorado Rockies
D.J. Mitchell – RHP: 13-9, 3.18 ERA, 28G, 24 GS, 161.1 / NY Yankees active roster
Hector Noesi – RHP: 1-1, 3.28 ERA, 6G, 5GS, 24.2 IP / Seattle Mariners
Tim Norton – RHP: 1-0, 0.00 ERA, 1G, 1.0 IP / NY Yankees
Ivan Nova – RHP: 1-2, 3.38 ERA, 3G, 3GS, 16.0 IP / NY Yankees active roster
Lance Pendleton – RHP: 3-4, 1 SV, 3.11 ERA, 18G, 10 GS, 66.2 IP / Houston Astros
David Phelps – RHP: 6-6, 3.19 ERA, 18G, 18GS, 107.1 IP / NY Yankees active roster
Ryan Pope – RHP: 2-1, 8.14 ERA, 14G, 21.0 IP / Non-roster invite to NY Yankees Spring Training
Mark Prior – RHP: 0-0, 0.00 ERA 1G, 1.0 IP / Free Agent
Scott Proctor – RHP: 0-0, 2.57 ERA, 6G, 7.0 IP / Doosan Bears (Korea)
J.C. Romero – LHP: 1-0, 2.92 ERA, 11G, 12.1 IP /St. Louis Cardinals
Amaury Sanit – RHP: 2-1, 5.21 ERA, 10G, 2GS, 19.0 IP / Free Agent
Josh Schmidt – RHP: 5-2, 1 SV, 2.81 ERA, 19G, 32.0 IP /Miami Marlins
Carlos Silva – RHP: 2-1, 3.52 ERA, 4G, 4GS, 23.0 /Boston Red Sox
Andrew Sisco – LHP: 2-0, 1.88 ERA, 16G, 14.1 IP /Los Angeles Dodgers
Greg Smith – LHP: 3-3, 4.84 ERA, 13G, 10GS, 57.2 /Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Rafael Soriano – RHP (MLB Rehab): 1-0, 4.50 ERA, 2G, 2.0 IP / NY Yankees active roster
Kanekoa Texeira – RHP: 0-1, 22.85 ERA, 5G, 4.1 IP /Cincinnati Reds
Jess Todd – RHP: 0-1, 10.80 ERA, 2G, 1.2 IP /St. Louis Cardinals
Raul Valdes – RHP: 1-0, 0.00 ERA, 3G, 3.0 IP /Philadelphia Phillies
Cory Wade – RHP: 1-0, 0.00 ERA, 1G, 1.2 IP / NY Yankees active roster
Adam Warren – RHP: 6-8, 3.60 ERA 27G, 27GS, 152.1 IP / Non-roster invite to NY Yankees Spring Training
Kevin Whelan – RHP: 2-3, 23 SV, 2.75 ERA, 45 G, 52.1 IP / Non-roster invite to NY Yankees Spring Training
Eric Wordekemper – RHP: 3-3, 2 SV, 3.60 ERA, 42G, 50.0 IP / Free Agent
Batters (24) *left handed # switch hitter
Doug Bernier – INF: 95G, .237 AVG, 0HR, 29RBI / Non-roster invite to NY Yankees Spring Training
Dan Brewer – INF: 46G, .278 AVG, 0HR, 9RBI / NY Yankees
Kelvin Castro – INF: 2G, 0 AB / NY Yankees
Francisco Cervelli – C (MLB Rehab): 3G, .154 AVG, 0HR, 1RBI / NY Yankees active roster
Chris Dickerson* – OF: 57G, .241 AVG, 2HR, 16RBI / NY Yankees active roster
Jose Gil – C: 6G, .250 AVG, 0HR, 0RBI / Non-roster invite to NY Yankees Spring Training
Greg Golson – OF: 105G, .263 AVG, 8HR, 33RBI / Kansas City Royals
Austin Krum* – OF: 64G, .246 AVG, 0HR, 13RBI / NY Yankees
Ray Kruml* – OF: 12G, .150 AVG, 0HR, 3RBI / NY Yankees
Brandon Laird – INF/OF: 123G, .260 AVG, 16HR, 69RBI / NY Yankees active roster
Mike Lamb* – INF/DH: 53G, .296 AVG, 6HR, 26RBI / Free Agent
Addison Maruszak – INF/C/OF: 3G, .125 AVG, 0HR, 0RBI / NY Yankees
Justin Maxwell – OF: 48G, .260 AVG, 16HR, 35RBI / NY Yankees active roster
Gustavo Molina – C: 47G, .253 AVG, 4HR, 21RBI / Non-roster invite to NY Yankees Spring Training
Jesus Montero – C: 109G, .288 AVG, 18HR, 67 RBI / Seattle Mariners
Luis Nunez – INF: 78G, .234 AVG, 2HR, 27RBI / Los Angeles Dodgers
Jordan Parraz – OF: 126G, .289 AVG, 9HR, 52RBI / Atlanta Braves
Ramiro Pena# – INF: 55G, .273 AVG, 4HR, 18RBI / NY Yankees active roster
P.J. Pilittere – C: 22G, .209 AVG, 0HR, 5RBI / Free Agent#
Alex Rodriguez – INF (MLB Rehab): 2G, .400 AVG, 0HR, 1RBI / NY Yankees active roster
Austin Romine – C: 4G, .133 AVG, 0HR, 1RBI / NY Yankees active roster
Kevin Russo – INF/OF: 113G, .273 AVG, 4HR, 46RBI / NY Yankees
Terry Tiffee# – INF: 29G, .345 AVG, 3HR, 13RBI / Miami Marlins
Jorge Vazquez – INF/DH: 118G, .262 AVG, 32HR, 93RBI / Non-roster invite to NY Yankees Spring Training
Update 2/11 -
* – Luis Ayala signed a one year major league deal with the Baltimore Orioles on February 10th with a club option for 2013
# – P.J. Pilittere will be a coach for the GCL Yankees joining Manager Tom Nieto’s coaching staff for 2012
Mike Vander Woude
