Dayton Dragons Announce Several Roster Changes - A, Midwest League

MLN - THE RAW FEED - www.mlntherawfeed.com – Dayton, Ohio—The Dayton Dragons announced several roster changes today prior to their series finale with the Quad Cities River Bandits.
 

Infielder Todd Frazier has been promoted to the Sarasota Reds of the Florida State League.  Infielder Brett Bartles has been sent from Dayton to the Cincinnati Reds’ extended spring training camp in Sarasota.  
 

Meanwhile, the Dragons received catcher Devin Mesoraco and first baseman Logan Parker from extended spring training.
 

Frazier, the only Dragons player to have started all 30 games this season, was hitting .321 with seven home runs and 20 runs batted in.  He was second in the Midwest League in slugging percentage (.598), second in extra base hits (17), third in home runs, third in runs scored (25), and tied for fourth in doubles (10).
 

Bartles was batting .186 with one home run and three runs batted in over 14 games.
 

Neither Mesoraco nor Parker has played in an official game this season.  Mesoraco was the Reds first pick (15th overall selection of the first round) of the 2007 draft out of Punxsutawney Area High School in Pennsylvania, where he was selected as the 2007 Gatorade Pennsylvania High School Player of the Year.  After signing with the Reds, he hit .219 in 40 games with the Gulf Coast League Reds.  Following the season, he was rated by Baseball America as the eighth best prospect in the Reds organization.  He is 19 years old.
 

Parker, who played college baseball at the University of Cincinnati, suffered a shoulder injury last September and has been rehabilitating the shoulder so far in 2008 in Florida.  He spent the entire 2007 season with the Dragons as their starting first baseman, batting .269 with nine home runs and 50 runs batted in.  On July 17, 2007, he became the first player in Dragons history to hit two home runs in the same inning.  He is 23 years old.
 

The Dragons roster remains at the Midwest League limit of 25 players.