The Gulf Coast League is a fourteen-team league based in
Florida. There are three divisions, the
North, the East, and the South. There
are six teams in the North and four teams in each of the other two divisions.
Teams take the names of their parent clubs, e.g. the GCL
Twins, the GCL Astros, etc. The teams
play at the spring training complexes of their major league clubs. They play a sixty-game schedule. Four teams make the playoffs. Rosters are capped at thirty-five, with only
thirty eligible for any given game. At
least ten of these must be pitchers.
Players must have less than three years of minor league service.
The Twins’ entry is managed by Ramon Borrego. The batting coach is Milt Cuyler, with
pitching coaches Henry Bonilla and Luis Ramirez.
Looking at the roster, pitcher whose names you might
recognize include Jose Barrios, Sam Gibbons, Yorman Landa, Gonzalo Sanudo, and
Markus Solbach. Batters you might
recognize include Aderlin Mejia, Javier Pimentel, Jacob Younis, Byron Buxton,
Kelvin Ortiz, and Dereck Rodriguez.
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