Royals Caribbean Report (12/7)

Today the Winter Meetings kick off in Indianapolis and will run through Thursday.  It’s expected that the Royals and Dayton Moore will be very active during this stretch.  While we wait for some Winter Meeting news, I hope you will enjoy your regular Monday Royals Caribbean Report.

OF-Adrian Ortiz has been removed from the Arecibo roster in Puerto Rico Winter League after appearing in only 1 game.

RHP-Robinson Tejeda (DWL), OF-Alex Llanos (PWL), C-Fernando Cruz (PWL) all made their Winter League debuts since last week’s report.  Tejeda started both of his games.

Venezuelan Winter League:

• 2B-Alberto Callaspo (26) [Zulia]  25 G, 104 AB, 0.298/.354/.394, 11 R, 5 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR, 19 RBI, 8 BB, 6 SO
• LHP-Michael O’Connor (29) [Margarita]  12 G, 8.2 IP, 3.12 ERA, 11 H, 4 BB, 6 SO
• LHP-Carlos Rivas (24) [Lara]  5 G, 6.1 IP, 4.26 ERA, 6 H, 6 BB, 0 SO
• RHP-Chris Nicoll (25) [Caribes]  2 G, 6.0 IP, 9.00 ERA, 10 H, 1 BB, 2 SO
• C-Moises Gomez (17) [Caribes]  No Stats
• 3B-Mario Lisson (25) [Caracas]  31 G, 95 AB, 0.242/.351/.568, 20 R, 8 2B, 1 3B, 7 HR, 21 RBI, 14 BB, 26 SO, 5 SB
• CF-Jose Duarte (24) [Caracas]  32 G, 72 AB, 0.264/.391/.278, 20 R, 1 2B, 6 RBI, 14 BB, 17 SO, 5 SB
• C-Manuel Pina (22) [La Guaira]  13 G, 21 AB, 0.238/.407/.381, 2 R, 3 2B, 2 RBI, 2 BB, 5 SO
• SS-Luis Hernandez (25) [La Guaira]  3 G, 11 AB, 0.364/.364/.636, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 3B, 3 RBI, 1 SO

Dominican Winter League:

• RHP-Manauris Baez (24) [Estrellas]  No Stats
• SS-Juan Rivera (22) [Estrellas]  No Stats
• RHP-Carlos Rosa (25) [Gigantes]  8 G, 13.1 IP, 4.05 ERA, 13 H, 1 BB, 8 SO
• 3B-Wilson Betemit (28) [Gigantes]  28 G, 105 AB, 0.343/.391/.629, 11 R, 8 2B, 2 3B, 6 HR, 26 RBI, 8 BB, 25 SO, 1 SB
• RHP-Juan Cruz (31) [Licey]  No Stats
• RHP-Eduardo Paulino (24) [Licey]  3 G, 1.1 IP, 0.00 ERA, 2 H, 0 BB, 0 SO
• RHP-Riquy Pena (24) [Toros]  No Stats
• RHP-Julio Cesar Pimentel (23) [Toros]  No Stats
• RHP-Robinson Tejeda (27) [Toros]  2 G, 7.0 IP, 2.57 ERA, 6 H, 2 BB, 5 SO
• 3B-Antonio Jimenez (22) [Toros]  No Stats

Puerto Rico Winter League:

• RHP-Mario Santiago (24) [Carolina]  3 G, 11.0 IP, 0.00 ERA, 11 H, 2 BB, 5 SO
• 2B-Irving Falu (26) [Mayaguez]  14 G, 46 AB, 0.391/.429/.500, 7 R, 3 2B, 1 3B, 4 RBI, 3 BB, 5 SO, 1 Sb
• C-Fernando Cruz (19) [Ponce]  1 G, 3 AB, 0.000/.000/.000, 1 SO
• SS-Mike Aviles (28) [Ponce]  No Stats
• 2B-Fernando Garcia (21) [Arecibo]  2 G, 0 AB
• OF-Alex Llanos (19) [Arecibo]  3 G, 2 AB, 0.000/.000/.000, 1 R, 2 SO

Mexican Winter League:

• RHP-Federico Castaneda (25) [Culiacan]  14 G, 18.1 IP, 3.93 ERA, 10 H, 6 BB, 15 SO

To honor the beginning of the Winter Meetings, and because I have a lot of topics I want to write about from the weekend, today will be a triple post day.  Additional posts will be added as necessary to cover any breaking news coming out of Indianapolis that involves the Royals or alters the landscape of the AL Central.  Until I post again later today, do your best to stay warm.  Here in KC it is a toasty warm 22 degrees.

(Wally Fish is Kings of Kauffman’s lead blogger.  Subscribe to his RSS feed and add him on Twitter to follow him daily.)