The Bowling Green Hot Rods have released their 2010 Opening Day roster for its first season in the Midwest League. The Hot Rods will feature four players, right-handed pitchers Shane Dyer, Jairo De  La Rosa and Deivis Mavares and infielder Robi Estrada, who spent part of 2009 with the team. Five 2010 Hot Rods were ranked by Baseball America on the Tampa Bay Rays’ top 30 prospects list, and I’ve included those rankings next to the players’ name below.

Pitchers

• RHP Alexander Colome (BA #7) — NDFA (2007)
• RHP Jairo De La Rosa — NFDA (2002)
• RHP Shane Dyer — 6th Round (2008)
• LHP Kyle Lobstein (BA #11) — 2nd Round (2008)
• RHP Deivis Mavares — NDFA (2007)
• RHP Jason McEachern (BA #25) — 13th round (2008)
• RHP Wilking Rodriguez (BA #17) –NDFA (2007)
• RHP Scott Shuman — 19th Round (2009)
• LHP Matthew Stabelfeld — 41st Round (2009)
• LHP Jake Sullivan — 22nd Round (2009)
• RHP Kirby Yates —

Catchers

• Mayobanex Acosta — R/R — NDFA (2006)
• Tomas Francisco — R/R — NDFA (2006)
• Mark Thomas — R/R — 22nd Round (2006)

Infielders

• SS — Tyler Bortnick — R/R — 16th round (2009)
• 3B — Julio Cedeno — R/R — NDFA (2006)
• 2B — Robi Estrada — S/R — 19th round (2006)
• SS — Diogenes Luis — S/R — NDFA (2006)
• 1B — Eli Sonoqui — L/L — 9th round (2006)
• 2B — Kyle Spraker — R/R — 34th round (2009)
• 1B — Ryan Wiegand — L/R — 25th round (2009)

Outfielders

• CF — Dustin Bell — L/R — 5th Round (2007)
• LF — Ty Morrison (BA #14) — L/R — 4th Round (2008)
• CF — Christopher Murrill — L/L — 35th Round (2009)
• RF — Brett Nommensen — L/L — 8th Round (2009)