2008 Connecticut Defenders

by SBcaptain2 on Apr 1, 2008 10:14 AM PDT

Has the Connecticut Defenders roster been announced yet? I'm not a Giants fan, but I live very close to Norwich and go to a lot of Defenders games. If it has been announced, who's on it? If not, who do you guys think will be on it? Any information on these players would be helpful as well as I'm not too familiar with the Giants system. I want to know about the 2008 version of this team before they take the field. The 2007 version was terrible, but Eugenio Velez and John Bowker are both good players that I enjoyed watching.

Also, who are the candidates for a mid-season promotion to Connecticut? Is anyone being held down in San Jose until the weather warms up in CT?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

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Check out Greg's (not me) Connecticut Defenders blog. He has a tentative roster up on his site.

http://gregsconnecticutdefenders.blogspot.com/

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by sfgreg on Apr 1, 2008 10:52 AM PDT reply actions

The web site says the roster was released today

Although the roster tab, doesn't show the whole team. Maybe later.

by CTGiant on Apr 1, 2008 11:06 AM PDT reply actions

the policy seems to be--younger hitters with potential don't start the year in Conn. and that chilly weather unless they have done well at San Jose. And sometimes not even then. So later you should see Sandoval, and maybe infielders like Burris, Rohlinger, Bocock, if they are doing well.
Plenty of Henry Sosa's group of pitchers coming to SJ from Augusta could come up to you later.

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by foothillsfan on Apr 1, 2008 11:11 AM PDT reply actions

Ok, here's the roster

http://connecticut.defenders.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080401&content_id=378758&vkey=news_t514&fext=.jsp&sid=t514

Who are the best prospects of the group? Denker? Copeland?

by SBcaptain2 on Apr 1, 2008 1:24 PM PDT reply actions

Man, that writer loves using forced adjectives.

There are several moderately interesting guys on that roster...Cowart, Romo, Pichardo for starters. I'm also curious to see if EME or Ishikawa can do anything to regain some standing in the organization.

by KCE on Apr 1, 2008 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions

I'll be interested to see what Witter does in AA. He's already old, so his time is now to move.

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by xanthan on Apr 1, 2008 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions

Potential Lineup

My projected lineup:

C- Adam Witter
1B- Travis Ishikawa
2B- Travis Denker
SS- Trey Webb
3B- David Maroul
LF- Ben Copeland
CF- Antoan Richardson
RF- Eddy Martinez-Esteve
DH- Simon Klink

Bench:

C- Dayton Buller
C- Barry Gunther
INF- Mark Minicozzi
INF- Olmo Rosario
OF- Carlos Sosa

Rotation:

RHP Adam Cowart
RHP Garret Broshuis
RHP Brooks McNiven
RHP Dave McKae
RHP Ronnie Ray

Bullpen:

Sergio Romo
Osiris Matos
Justin Hedrick
Kelvin Pichardo
Ryan Sadowski
Jason Waddell
Steve Palazzolo

by SBcaptain2 on Apr 1, 2008 2:05 PM PDT reply actions

OF alignment

With Copeland a CF and RIchardson having a cannon and EME barely able to stand up may I suggest:

LF EME
CF Copeland
RF Richardson

by wilriv21 on Apr 1, 2008 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions

OF

Doesn't Richardson have excellent range that would be best suited for centerfield though?

by SBcaptain2 on Apr 1, 2008 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions

He does. But he also had notable problems switching from center to left in his first season. Richardson is the better CF, though.

I suspect it'll be Richardson in center, Martinez-Esteve in left, and Copeland in right.

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by BruteSentiment on Apr 1, 2008 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions

Agreed

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by Lyle on Apr 1, 2008 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions

Nice to see Cowart make the jump

I'm also glad that Ish and EME didn't get promotions to Fresno. While it may have done them some good to get out of Connecticut, frankly, they would have been unearned.

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by nostocksjustbonds on Apr 1, 2008 2:06 PM PDT reply actions

Ish

I'd like to see Ish get another month in Fresno at some point this season. Then let him stay or send him away.

by kennv on Apr 2, 2008 8:39 AM PDT up reply actions

Uh-oh Sergio

Thought brother Sergio was being groomed as the closer in Fresno. Where is Pablito? No Pablito? Why no Pablito? Go Eddy Go.

by wilriv21 on Apr 1, 2008 2:08 PM PDT reply actions

Steve Palazzolo

is also intriguing.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Apr 1, 2008 3:09 PM PDT reply actions

The closer he is to the bigs

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by howtheyscored on Apr 1, 2008 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions

Adam Witter

With 2 catchers besides Witter, Adam will get a lot of DH time as well - which is good. He should be starting 95% of the games somewhere. I have a hard time seeing him staying at catcher, but will be interested to follow his progress. And if he hits with power, he can play pretty much wherever he wants to.

I'm a bit disappointed that Romo didn't get assigned to Fresno, but I'm sure he'll be there some time this summer anyway.

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by Lyle on Apr 1, 2008 4:04 PM PDT reply actions