Thread: What was your favorite Luke Hughes moment?

Gotta love the 13-man pitching staff.

I was in the middle of the woods on a mountain bike when Hughes hit his first HR off Detroit. Awesome moment and i almost fell off my bike. I saw a lot of Hughes in 08 for New Britain and he was just raking. Have fond memories of early 08 Hughes. I wish him luck, but i'm not surprised by the move the way he's been booting the ball.

Bring up DOZIER - like NOW!

Handwriting is on the wall - Here's a call for you - Dozier will be here with in 10 days - that's by May 1st -

Can't stand carrying 13 pitchers. The two times we won a World Series, we carried 10 pitchers.

Originally Posted by TwinsFanLV

Can't stand carrying 13 pitchers. The two times we won a World Series, we carried 10 pitchers.

I imagine 13 pitchers is a temporary reaction to the uncertainty surrounding Blackburn and Perkins.

I'm a Luke Hughes fan. If he makes it through waivers, I'll be surprised. He's a tough-nosed utility guy that can play several positions, and he doesn't look intimidated by the big league stage. Twins will be lucky if they can get him to Rochester. That said, what Hughes offers is similar to Plouffe, who was a first round draft pick. If nothing else separates them, you keep the first rounder.

Does anyone else think this is a good move?

Lets not forget that we're talking about a 27 year old utility man who plays questionable defense, can't get on base and has a career OPS of .627 in 300+ PA's. Twenty-seven is considered to be a hitters prime so he's too old to progress much more as a hitter. He can't really play second all that well, so he's basically a corner infielder who was 3rd on the depth chart at 3B and 5th on the depth chart at 1st base. Why do we need that?

It needs to be Dozier time. The Twins aren't competing this season, so they need to quit wasting time with Casilla at 2nd and use him as the middle infield backup that he is.

13 pitchers cannot be what the plan is for more than a few days at most. I assume, that somebody is likely head for the DL.

By the way, Luke Hughes is not a good hitter. FYI. I would not be surprised if he makes it to Rochester.

That said, I find 12 pitchers to already be gratuitous. Jeff Gray?

This means Dozier is coming soon.

Why not send Parmelee down to the minors where he'll get regular playing time instead?

There still is no word on what happened with Bowden. People should start to suspect a trade is in the works since there should be news on who won the claim by now. The Red Sox are looking for a right handed bench bat. Any chance there is a Hughes/Bowden swap in the works but the Twins needed to lose someone off the roster today so Marquis can pitch?

Originally Posted by gmarais66

Hughes is very similar to Plouffe... Both have some power, but aren't very good hitters, and neither has a position they are particularly good at... They are expendible, because the minor leagues are littered with players like this...

I agree with this comment. Virtually everyone on the club is out of options. Hughes had OK power numbers in the minors, but also struck out 104 times in 432 AB's at Triple-A. He was a failed prospect at 27, if he was ever a MLB prospect at all.

Plouffe's defense at SS may be terrible, but Hughes wasn't even an emergency option at SS. Hughes can play a little bit of 2nd base, but so can Plouffe, and Burroughs as a LH option at backup 3B has more upside than Hughes. Plouffe's value is the chance for a RH bat to play right field, which is something Parmalee and Clete Thomas are not, and Doumit does not do well. Hughes is redundant, and I hope he catches on somewhere else that needs his services.

It would have been nice to see if Hughes could have gotten his bat going with some semi-regular playing time. That being said he never forced the issue to justify that result because of his not so excellent defense. I agree with most that some MLB team will take flyer on him and claim him off waivers. My prediction for Hughes in the next year is that he washes out in the Majors and signs with a team in Japan and becomes an All-Star type hitter in the Nippon League.

The fact that there has been no word on Bowden AND they found it necessary to DFA a useful player unnecessarily, might mean something. Might mean that the Twins needed to make room for Bowden on the 40 man roster, OR that they plan to add someone like Dozier to the 40 man roster (and call him up) shortly.

Originally Posted by Seth Stohs

The fact that there has been no word on Bowden AND they found it necessary to DFA a useful player unnecessarily, might mean something. Might mean that the Twins needed to make room for Bowden on the 40 man roster, OR that they plan to add someone like Dozier to the 40 man roster (and call him up) shortly.

Well, they could have removed Nishioka from the 40 man roster to add Bowden

I don't like this move. Burroughs is not as good a player as Hughes is and Gray does not belong to the majors. I think that this is going to be another Garrett Jones/Sergio Santos regreatable move for the Twins. At least Ryan is still "interim"...

Luke was scheduled for a Fan Cave visit today.

I gotta think this is a first step in a series of moves leading to acquiring a starting pitcher.

Yeah, I'm pretty shocked by this. Not that I think Hughes is anything special, but they didn't give him much of a chance to show anything after a legitimately impressive spring. I think Gardy really dislikes his defense

Originally Posted by Nick Nelson

Yeah, I'm pretty shocked by this. Not that I think Hughes is anything special, but they didn't give him much of a chance to show anything after a legitimately impressive spring. I think Gardy really dislikes his defense

Exactly. I'm a fan of Hughes and would loved to have seen him get a chance, but I won't pretend that they're going to miss him. It's just strange because there are so many other moves that would have (in my opinion) made much more sense. (I'm not sure that's a positive for an organization!)

This is just t the beginning there will be alot more to go if they can't play.

Though I think they could/should have sent someone down instead, Hughes was never going to be anything special in the majors.

I question his ability to play an even decent defensive INF and he is to injury prone and doesn't hit enough to ever be considered a serious option in the outfield. Hopefully this indicates that the Twins are planning to bring up Dozier very soon, which more or less would have pushed Hughes out of the equation anyways.

Blackburn to the DL however would have made the most sense (unless he comes back soon)