The Arizona Complex League (formerly known as the Arizona League, same league) got started last night, and the Royals have deployed two teams into the league. The teams are called the ACL Royals Blue and ACL Royals Gold.

Here’s a quick look at the ACL Royals Blue roster:

Pitchers:
– Wander Arias
– Daury Cabrera
– Jose Cuas
– Andres Diaz
– AJ Franklin
– Cal Maduro
– John McMillon
– Charlie Neuweiler
– Adrian Solano
– Oscar Valenzuela
– Samuel Valerio
– Richi Vasquez
– Daniel Vitriago

Catchers:
– German Duarte
– Saul Garza
– Yesi Medina
– Guillermo Quintana

Infielders:
– Wilmin Candelario
– Austin Dennis
– Omar Florentino
– Diego Maican
– Jose Marquez
– Joshua Rivera

Outfielders:
– David Hollie
– Neyfi Marinez
– Erick Pena
– Jean Ramirez
– Rothaikeg Seijas

And the ACL Royals Gold roster:

Pitchers:
– Chih-Ting Wang
– Luis Villar
– Ashe Russell
– Kipp Rollings
– Dario Peralta
– Luilly Ovalle
– Matt Marsili
– Woo-Young Jin
– Isaiah Henry
– Heribert Garcia
– CJ Eldred
– Luis Cepeda
– Luinder Avila

Catchers:
– Paul Mondesi
– Enmanuel Pire
– Omar Rodriguez

Infielders:
– Darnel Collins (this is Darryl Collins’ brother)
– Lucius Fox
– Francis Grullon
– Jordan Hovey
– Edgar Martinez
– Kevin Nivar
– Kevin Reyes
– Enrique Vadez

Outfielders:
– Jaswel De Los Santos
– Burle Dixon
– Kevon Jackson
– Roger Leyton
– Seuly Matias
– Olivber Moreno

Most of the guys that made our preseason top 50 list are on the ACL Royals Blue roster, with the exception of Seuly Matias (#10) who is rehabbing with the Gold team. On the Blue team, Omar Florentino came in at #48, Samuel Valerio came in at #47, John McMillon came in at #42, Charlie Neuweiler came in at #39 (he’s also rehabbing), Wilmin Candelario came in at #27, and Erick Pena came in at #5. The ACL games won’t appear on your MiLB.tv feed, so while we’ll have to wait for these guys to get to full-season ball to get look at them on film, we’ll at least get to see how they do against live competition against other teams for the first time in nearly two years.

I don’t have a lot for you on these guys that we haven’t already written. You can visit our home page and click the “Rankings” tab and go back and find some info on some of them. Googling “Burle Dixon Royals Farm Report” will bring up results as well. We’ll have more in-depth coverage of how their seasons are going, especially the big names, as the season gets along. For now, here’s the first box scores of the ACL season for the two Royals affiliates.

ACL Royals Blue (1-0), W 11-3:
– Omar Florentino: 0-6, 4 K
– Erick Pena: 2-4, BB
– Wilmin Candelario: 1-5, 3 K
– Diego Maican: 1-3, HR (1), 2 BB, K
– Jean Ramirez: 1-5, 2 K
– Rothaikeg Seijas: 1-4, HR (1), 2 K
– David Hollie: 2-4, 2B, K
– Austin Dennis: 2-3, BB
– German Duarte: 1-3, 2B, BB
– Charlie Neuweiler: 4 IP, 3 H, 0 BB, 5 K, 0 R
– Samuel Valerio: 2.1 IP, 4 H, 3 BB, 3 K, 3 R
– Cal Maduro: 2.2 IP, 3 H, 0 BB, 2 K, 0 R

ACL Royals Gold (0-1), L 2-4:
– Lucius Fox: 1-3, K
– Burle Dixon: 1-4, 2B, K
– Seuly Matias: 0-1, K
– Edgar Martinez: 1-3, 2B
– Heribert Garcia: 4 IP, 5 H, 0 BB, 6 K, 2 R
– Chih-Tih Wang: 3 IP, 1 H, 2 BB, 4 K, 1 R