As the Kansas City Royals’ full-season minor league clubs open their 2010 campaigns today, loads of former Chukars find themselves on opening-day rosters up and down the organization.
Billy Butler still remains the only former Chukar on the Kansas City Royals’ roster, but five sit one step below at Triple-A. And the Royals just placed two of them, right-handed pitcher Blake Wood and outfielder Jordan Parraz, on the 40-man roster to start the MLB season, making them the most likely to get called up next.
Moving down the organizational ladder, more and more former Chukars appear on opening-day rosters.
The Chukars are the Royals’ highest affiliate to play a short season and don’t open the season until June 21. Four clubs are higher on the organizational ladder and play a full-season schedule, which starts today.
A full list of former Chukars opening the season on Royals-affiliated clubs is below. The year they played in Idaho Falls is listed in parenthesis.
Kansas City Royals
1B/DH Billy Butler (2004)
AAA Omaha Royals
RHP Greg Holland (2007)
RHP Blake Wood (2006)
2B Marc Maddox (2006)
3B Ed Lucas (2004)
OF Jordan Parraz (2009)
AA Northwest Arkansas
RHP Chris Chavez (2007)
LHP Blaine Hardy (2008)
LHP Rowdy Hardy (2006)
RHP Mario Santiago (2005)
LHP Brandon Sisk (2008)
LHP Ben Swaggerty (2007)
LHP Everett Teaford (2006)
C Ryan Eigsti (2007)
C Jeff Howell (2005)
1B Clint Robinson (2007)
1B Anthony Seratelli (2007)
2B Kurt Mertins (2006)
3B Mike Moustakas (2007)
SS Chris McConnell (2005-06)
OF Nick Van Stratten (2006-07)
High-A Wilmington Blue Rocks
RHP Eric Basurto (2009)
LHP Chris Dwyer (2009)
LHP Ivor Hodgson (2008-09)
RHP Patrick Keating (2009)
RHP James Thompson (2008)
C Salvador Perez (2008-09)
C Ben Theriot (2009)
1B Eric Hosmer (2008)
2B Fernando Garcia (2007-08)
3B Jason Taylor (2009)
SS JD Alfaro (2008-09)
OF Patrick Norris (2007-08)
OF Adrian Ortiz (2007)
Manager Brian Rupp (2007)
Low-A Burlington (Iowa) Bees
RHP Mitch Hodge (2009)
RHP Scott Kelley (2009)
LHP Brendan Lafferty (2009)
LHP John Lamb (2009)
RHP Harold Mozingo (2006)
RHP Bryan Paukovits (2009)
RHP Nick Wooley (2009)
C Juan Graterol (2008-09)
C Wil Myers (2009)
1B Joey Lewis (2009)
3B Ryan Stovall (2009)
SS Deivy Batista (2009)
OF Allen Caldwell (2009)
OF Hilton Richardson (2009)
OF Carlo Testa (2008-09)
Manager Jim Gabella (2008)
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