Wow, not many playing this winter so far eh? Kind of miss the old days when 1/2 the team was from the Dominican and would be playing all winter (OK, bit of an exageration but not by much). Luis Sojo once hit 400 with George Bell as a hitting coach iirc. Sadly nothing catches my eye with the stats listed above. Some good OBP's, but nothing that jumps out at you.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/Stats/stats_MPL_her.shtml
Ryan Glynn and Matt Whiteside are pitching for the Hermosillo Orange Growers in the Mexican League. COMN for the team stats. It's a friendly hitter's environment, and Glynn and Whiteside are actually holding their own in limited action.

Mike, I really like Ryan Glynn.

With TO he went: 4.05 20 19 8 14
with AAA: 3.75 110 108 48 94

I only saw him pitch once but he looked like he belonged.

Could he be a swing man in 05?

Glynn usually pitched well in the high minors, despite striking out only an average number of hitters. His 3 major league trials before 2004 were with the 1999-2001 Texas Rangers. That's a tough environment for a young pitcher and it did not work out for Glynn. I see no reason why he could not be a league average pitcher, along the lines of Pete Walker.

One other Glynn factor. His best success years ago came when Brad Arnsberg was his pitching coach. When he was a free agent last summer he signed with Syracuse to work with Arny again. I would say on that basis Glynn is a definite dark horse to make the big club out of spring training.

His 3 major league trials before 2004 were with the 1999-2001 Texas Rangers.

I saw Glynn several times in that span, and I was keeping the ESPN.com Texas Ranger Correspondent chair warm for Scott Lucas at the time -- as I recall, I consistently recommended Glynn as a guy who would stick and be a nice 12-14 gane winner; if course, I said the same thing about Doug Davis and was wrong about that until he had passed through Toronto and back to Doug Melvin (I'm surprised Glynn isn't with Melvin in Milwaukee, too). I thought Glynn and Davis were going to be the regular 3/2 R/L behind Helling (a 20-game winner, recall) and Rogers.

I'd think Toronto would be quite happy if Glynn finally turned into a younger Rick Helling in 2004.

I. Ramirez had a good outing last night ( just after a horrible one (and only))) 5.2 I, 3 H, 2 R, 0 BB, 8 SO.
Sequea is not playing much, basically a 24, 25 man. Which begs for his AAA journeyman label.
Many major leaguears ( most oustanding Vlad ) are already playing. If Rodney and Ismael keep their performance level through January that will be very good news about two A level prospects, holding their own at a AAA (+/- ref.: BP )level league...

Thanks, Jabonoso. That would make it 9 W, 36Ks in 40 innings for Ismael Ramirez against more challenging competition. That's very good news.

Jabonoso, any thoughts on Rob Cosby? He started strong but has been struggling lately. Have you seen Negron play?

Acording to Puerto Rican press, Cosby is a fan fav down there.
Both Cosby and Negron are slumping big time. Late December comes with a lot of distractions. So there are three hypothesis: They are tired, they are partying, they are limping...
I'm looking forward to see Caguas In Mazatlan as PR representative...

So there are three hypothesis: They are tired, they are partying, they are limping...

I hope it's not all three.:) I mean, I don't mind people who play hard, but limping afterwards is carrying it a bit far...Jabonoso, is there any word on when Rios is expected to start playing? My guess was right after the holidays.

I've heard somewhere that he is not playing winter ball due to a special petition from the BJ's brass. I hope he does gets some January at bats to practice his uppercut just as GQ is doing. He need to balance his approach. I do nor see it as "pull it vs go to the other side thing" He needs to put the ball airborne more...

New Jay reliever Lee Gronkiewicz made his winter league debut for Mayaguez in the Puerto Rican League yesterday and pitched 1.2 scoreless innings for the save.

Check Baseball America's winter leagues notebook. It has a story about long time friends Cosby and Rios. It confirms that Alexis was shut down from playing winter ball against his will and tell us that Cosby's coaches are very happy with his later development, seeing him as late bloomer in the mold of Carlos Baerga...