In a rather interesting move the Daytona Tortugas will be going with a 6-man starting rotation, at least to start the season. Chris Boyle of The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported that in his article on Wednesday evening. The rotation will include Jonathon Crawford, who starts later tonight, Jose Lopez, Vladimir Gutierrez, Jesus Reyes, Ty Boyles and Wendolyn Bautista.

The organization may be going with a 6-man rotation in Daytona simply out of necessity. Of those six players it was only Jose Lopez and Ty Boyles that threw over 100.0 innings last season. Jonathon Crawford barely pitched at all as he recovered from injuries and Vladimir Gutierrez didn’t pitch at all. Jesus Reyes split time between the bullpen and rotation in 2016. Wendolyn Bautista made 14 starts and three relief appearances. All of that to basically point out that the pitching staff as currently assembled probably isn’t capable of handling all of the necessary innings in a 5-man rotation over the course of the full season.

While we don’t know the rotation order for Daytona, we do know it for some of the other affiliates.

Minor League Rotations

Here’s how the rotations stack up for the other three Cincinnati Reds minor league affiliates to open the 2017 season.

Louisville Bats

RHP Sal Romano RHP Rob Wooten RHP Jackson Stephens RHP Lisalverto Bonilla RHP Tim Adleman

Pensacola Blue Wahoos

RHP Tyler Mahle RHP Luis Castillo RHP Keury Mella RHP Deck McGuire RHP Austin Ross

Dayton Dragons

RHP Tony Santillan LHP Scott Moss LHP Wennington Romero RHP Ryan Olson RHP Andrew Jordan