2019 Eastern League All-Star Game Rosters
Image credit: Matt Manning (Photo by Mike Janes/Four Seam Images)
Erie’s Matt Manning and Trenton’s Deivi Garcia will get to face off against one another on July 10, when they will meet at The Diamond in Richmond for the Eastern League all-star game.
The big-armed righthanders are the easy stars of the respective Eastern and Western Division rosters, which were released on Monday. Manning’s teammate Casey Mize was also named to the Western Division’s pitching staff, but he’s on the injured list with right shoulder soreness.
Manning, 21, entered the year as the league’s youngest pitcher (but not even the youngest player on his own team; that honor goes to infielder and fellow all-star Isaac Paredes) and has been dominant from the jump. The 6-foot-6, athletic righty has a league-best 98 strikeouts to go with a 6-4, 2.53 mark over 81.2 innings. He sports an electric fastball that he can run into the upper 90s, as well as wipeout curveball and a changeup that can elicit swings and misses.
Garcia, who is a full year younger than Manning, started the season at high Class A Tampa before making his Double-A debut on May 1. He’s pitched 47 innings with Trenton since then and has piled up 76 strikeouts. That total includes a recent six-inning, 15-strikeout gem that earned him the top spot on the most recent Hot Sheet. He began the year with a three-pitch mix of a fastball, changeup and curveball, but has added a slider to round out his arsenal.
He’s really taken to the slider,” Trenton manager Pat Osborn said. “It was more of ‘Hey, let’s see if he can start trying this pitch and see what it looks like, and it’s turned into an above-average major league slider. My personal opinion is that it’s going to become his wipeout pitch. I think it will kind of eventually overtake his curveball, but what we’re seeing is it’s actually helping his curveball too which is kind of cool.”
Manning and the rest of the Western Division will have to navigate around Portland’s Bobby Dalbec, who is tied for second in the league with 14 home runs. Dalbec is one of the league’s premier power brokers and, if the game is forced into a tie-breaking home run derby as it did in 2018, would give his team an ace in the hole.
Reading first baseman Darick Hall, who also has 14 home runs, will buttress Dalbec in the Eastern Division lineup. Trenton’s Chris Gittens, who is third in the league with a .940 OPS, will add some thump as well.
EASTERN TEAM
| Name | Position | Team | MLB Org |
| PITCHERS | |||
| Daniel Alvarez | P | Trenton | Yankees |
| Logan Cozart | P | Hartford | Rockies |
| Deivi Garcia | P | Trenton | Yankees |
| Harol Gonzalez | P | Binghampton | Mets |
| Alexander Guillen | P | Hartford | Rockies |
| Tanner Houck | P | Portland | Red Sox |
| Dedgar Jimenez | P | Portland | Red Sox |
| Zach Logue | P | New Hampshire | Blue Jays |
| Adonis Medina | P | Reading | Phillies |
| Addison Russ | P | Reading | Phillies |
| Adonis Uceta | P | Binghampton | Mets |
| CATCHERS | |||
| Patrick Mazeika | C | Binghampton | Mets |
| Jhon Nunez | C | Portland | Red Sox |
| INFIELDERS | |||
| Bobby Dalbec | IF | Portland | Red Sox |
| Santiago Espinal | IF | New Hampshire | Blue Jays |
| Chris Gittens | IF | Trenton | Yankees |
| Sam Haggerty | IF | Binghampton | Mets |
| Darick Hall | IF | Reading | Phillies |
| Nash Knight | IF | New Hampshire | Blue Jays |
| Hoy Jun Park | IF | Trenton | Yankees |
| Alan Trejo | IF | Hartford | Rockies |
| Colton Welker | IF | Hartford | Rockies |
| OUTFIELDERS | |||
| Braxton Lee | OF | Binghampton | Mets |
| Mickey Moniak | OF | Reading | Phillies |
| Ben Ruta | OF | Trenton | Yankees |
| Forrest Wall | OF | New Hampshire | Blue Jays |
WESTERN TEAM
| Name | Position | Team | MLB Org |
| PITCHERS | |||
| Melvin Adon | P | Richmond | Giants |
| Caleb Baragar | P | Richmond | Giants |
| Ben Braymer | P | Harrisburg | Nationals |
| Zac Lowther | P | Bowie | Orioles |
| Matt Manning | P | Erie | Tigers |
| James Marvel | P | Altoona | Pirates |
| Casey Mize | P | Erie | Tigers |
| Eli Morgan | P | Akron | Indians |
| Kyle Nelson | P | Akron | Indians |
| Pedro Vasquez | P | Altoona | Pirates |
| Alex Wells | P | Bowie | Orioles |
| CATCHERS | P | ||
| Tres Barrera | P | Harrisburg | Nationals |
| Jason Delay | P | Altoona | Pirates |
| INFIELDERS | |||
| Jonah Arenado | IF | Richmond | Giants |
| Rylan Bannon | IF | Bowie | Orioles |
| Wilson Garcia | IF | Akron | Indians |
| Zach Houchins | IF | Richmond | Giants |
| Mason McCoy | IF | Bowie | Orioles |
| Jalen Miller | IF | Richmond | Giants |
| Isaac Paredes | IF | Erie | Tigers |
| Ian Sagdal | IF | Harrisburg | Nationals |
| OUTFIELDERS | |||
| Jose Azocur | OF | Erie | Tigers |
| Jacob Heyward | OF | Richmond | Giants |
| Connor Marabell | OF | Akron | Indians |
| Ka’ai Tom | OF | Akron | Indians |
| Rhett Wiseman | OF | Harrisburg | Nationals |
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