{"id":659286,"date":"2026-04-02T18:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659286\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:19:13","slug":"rome-emperors-release-2026-opening-day-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659286\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome Emperors release 2026 Opening Day roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the Emperors season starting this Thursday, Rome has released their Opening Day roster &#8211; let\u2019s take a look at how the roster is setup in what should hopefully be a strong season. We\u2019ve already gone over the rosters for both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-prospects\/128356\/augusta-greenjackets-release-initial-2026-roster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Augusta<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-prospects\/128371\/columbus-clingstones-release-2026-opening-day-roster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus<\/a> earlier today and here\u2019s a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-prospects\/128089\/gwinnett-stripers-release-initial-2026-roster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gwinnett roster<\/a> from last week as well. Without further ado, let\u2019s get into it:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rome boasts a very strong starting rotation with all five in, or near the BP Top 30, headlined by Cam Caminiti &#8211; fresh off an amazing 2025 campaign. Following him will be four right handed starters, the hard throwing Cedric de Grandpre, the hard throwing Jeremy Reyes, and Cade Kuehler. There is a lot of velocity in this starting rotation, but also tons of polished breaking pitches with the Caminiti sweeper and the Kuehler slider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The relief core has a lot of experience with potentially Trent Buchanan leading the charge. Trent, coming off of a very strong 2025 season, where he had a 2.53 ERA across 28 games and two levels. Isaac Gallegos had an 3.18 ERA across 51 innings last season as well to go with a 8.47 K\/9 and 3.35 BB\/9 rate. Riley Frey and Jacob Kroeger will be the long lefties in the bullpen, with Riley having made an appearance in Columbus last season, while Jacob Kroeger had a 1.98 ERA across two levels last season. Braves 11th round pick Colin Daniel will be making his organizational debut in Rome as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rome will add Colin Burgess to a catching room that had Mac Guscette last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rome infield will have some of the highest upside in the organization as top prospects John Gil, Cody Miller, and Dixon Williams will likely have starting roles while Colby Jones, Will Verdung, and Mason Guerra rotate for playing time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Much like the infield, the outfield is one of the most intriguing position groups in the organization as the potential starting outfield of Eric Hartman &#8211; Isaiah Drake &#8211; Owen Carey has some of the highest upside amongst all position players. Add 9th round draft pick Logan Braunschweig to the group, along with tools-y Dalton McIntyre and Jake Steels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Emperors season starting this Thursday, Rome has released their Opening Day roster &#8211; let\u2019s take a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,73264,7951,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-659286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlanta-braves-prospects","11":"tag-atlanta-braves-roster","12":"tag-atlantabraves","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-braves","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116336497171796422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}