C’s Recap – López, Eden + Barger Among 53 Former Vancouver Canadians to Appear in Spring Training with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2023 – C's Plus Baseball

The Vancouver Canadians were well represented down in Dunedin for Grapefruit League action in 2023.

The Toronto Blue Jays utilized 35 position players and 18 pitchers with Vancouver Canadians during spring training, finishing with a record of 17-15.

The position players and pitchers are listed below with the years they appeared in Vancouver in parentheses along with their spring training stats.

Position Players

Michael Turconi (2022) .500 1/2 2B BB
Riley Tirotta (2022) .400 2/5 1R
Cam Eden (2019, 2021-2022) .348 8/23 HR RBI 2BB
Otto López (2018) .348 8/23 2B 3B 4RBI 4BB
Dasan Brown (2022) 2/6 RBI BB
Alex De Jesus (2022) .333 3/9 2B BB
Spencer Horwitz (2019, 2021) .333 6/18 3R 2RBI
Orelvis Martinez (2021) .333 7/21 2 2B 2HR 7RBI
Steward Berroa (2022) .300 3/10 2R 2B 3SB
Addison Barger (2021-2022) .294 10/34 6R 2 2B HR 6RBI 2BB
Phil Clarke (2019, 2021) .286 4/14 2R 2B HR 3RBI
L.J. Talley (2021) .286 4/14 4R 2HR 4RBI
Luis De Los Santos (2019, 2021) .250 3/12 R
Damiano Palmegiani (2022) .250 1/4 R BB
Andrés Sosa (2022) .238 5/21 2R 2B HR 5RBI 4BB
Leo Jiménez (2022) .235 4/17 4R 2B BB
Cavan Biggio (2016) .224 11/49 8R HR 2RBI 8BB SB
Zach Britton (2022) .222 6/27 4R 2B 3B 2HR
Davis Schneider (2019, 2021-2022) .222 2/9 2R 2B 2RBBI 3BB
Rainer Nuñez (2022) .212 7/33 4R 2B HR 5RBI BB
P.K. Morris (2021-2022) .200 1/5 R RBI 2BB
Trevor Schwecke (2019, 2021-2022) .200 1/5 R 2B
Vinny Capra (2018) .190 4/21 6R 2B HR 7RBI 8BB
John Aiello (2021) .143 1/7
Sebastian Espino (2021) .143 1/7
Zac Cook (2021) .125 1/8 BB
Gabby Martinez (2021) .125 1/8 3BB
Chris Bec (2018) .000 0/1
Miguel Hiraldo (2022) .000 0/1
Rafael Lantigua (2021) .000 0/5 BB
Cullen Large (2017) .000 0/3 BB
Tanner Morris (2019, 2021) .000 0/1 R
Will Robertson (2019, 2021) .000 0/12
Glenn Santiago (2022).000 0/1
Garrett Spain (2022) .000 0/6 R

Of note, Biggio and Capra led Jays hitters with eight walks apiece while Talley drew five walks and López and Sosa hearing ball four four times. Capra and Orelvis Martinez led all former C’s with seven runs batted in, two off the team lead held by Bo Bichette. Barger was one back with six RBI. Britton, Orelvis Martinez and Talley had two homers apiece, two back off Bichette in that department. Berroa pulled into a three-way tie in stolen bases with Bichette and Santiago Espinal.

Pitchers

Andrew Bash (2021) 0.00 ERA 0.1IP OBB 1K
Conor Larkin (2022) 0.00 ERA 0.2IP 1BB 0K
Gabriel Ponce (2019, 2021-2022) 0.00 ERA 1IP 0BB 3K
Jimmy Robbins (2022) 0.00 ERA 3.0IP 2BB 4K SV
Troy Watson (2021-2022) 0.00 ERA 0.1IP 0BB 1K
Yosver Zulueta (2022) 0.00 4.0IP 3BB 6K SV
Jimmy Burnette (2022) 2.70 ERA 3.1IP 1BB 5K SV
Tim Mayza (2014) 0-1, 2.84 ERA 6.1IP 1BB 7K
Hagen Danner (2021) 3.00 ERA 3.0IP 2BB 4K
Alek Manoah (2019) 2-2 3.10 ERA 20.1IP 8BB 21K
Nate Pearson (2021) 3.24 ERA 8.1IP 5BB 13K SV
Brandon Eisert (2021) 1-0 4.15 ERA 4.1IP 2BB 3K
Sem Robberse (2021-2022) 0-1 4.50 ERA 6.0IP 3BB 4K
Ricky Tiedemann (2022) 6.00 ERA 3.0IP 1BB 4K
Adrian Hernández (2021) 0-2 8.44 ERA 5.1IP 4BB 6K
Connor Cooke (2022) 9.00 ERA 1IP 2BB 2K
Hayden Juenger (2021) 11.57 ERA 2.1IP 2BB 0K SV
T.J. Brock (2022) 54.00 0.1IP 1BB 0K

Manoah’s 20-1/3 innings and 21 strikeouts placed him second on the Jays pitching staff next to Yusei Kikuchi who worked 20-2/3 innings with 31 punchouts. Pearson struck out 13 batters and shared the saves lead with Zulueta, Burnette, Juenger and Robbins.

C-Notes

The Buffalo Bisons have set its 30-man roster for the 2023 season that features 13 ex-Vancouver Canadians. Nine of them are position players and four are pitchers.

LHP Brandon Eisert
RHP Hayden Juenger
RHP Nate Pearson
RHP Yosver Zulueta
INF Addison Barger
INF Spencer Horwitz
INF Otto López
INF Tanner Morris
INF Davis Schneider
INF L.J. Talley
OF Vinny Capra
OF Cam Eden
OF Rafael Lantigua

The Herd will begin its season on Friday when they visit Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

2022 Vancouver Canadians utilityman Harry Ray will be playing for the Washington Wild Things of the Frontier League. The 25 year-old batted .204 with a home run and four stolen bases with Monty’s Mounties last season.

2012 C’s lefty Daniel Norris is leaving one Ohio city for another. After being released by the Cincinnati Reds on March 20, he was picked up four days later by the Cleveland Guardians. The 29-year-old hurler split last season between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, finishing with a 2-0 record and a 3.45 earned run average with Detroit after going 0-4 with a 6.90 ERA with Chicago.