Nick Blackburn's Thigh Injury?

[Thrylos]

The Twins have 38 men on their 40-man roster; 20 pitchers and 18 position players.

 

I suspect that if they have to call someone for Blackburn it will be the pitcher who is listed on the 25-man roster but has been on the DL since the begining of the season and has been doing rehab appearances in Fort Myers (pitching 2 scoreless innings in 2 games). That would be Kyle Waldrop. Just my guess. Or if he is not 100%, at this point Deolis Guerra deserves the call up more than Jeff Manship who has been mediocre this season in AAA. (Matter of fact half of Rochester's roster deserves beeing called up before Manship at this point...)

[Shane Wahl]

I'm fine with Swarzak too, put Blackie on the DL and figure out what to do with him. Nobody is this bad so I have to believe the injury has at least something to do with it but right now he's not even worth a long relief role. BTW how much longer is his contract??? gotta be at least a yr or two.

They are going to pay this joke $5.5 million next year. It's atrocious. I have no clue as to why they ever gave him that contract. It was straight-up irrational.

[IdahoPilgrim]

The Twins have 38 men on their 40-man roster; 20 pitchers and 18 position players.

 

I suspect that if they have to call someone for Blackburn it will be the pitcher who is listed on the 25-man roster but has been on the DL since the begining of the season and has been doing rehab appearances in Fort Myers (pitching 2 scoreless innings in 2 games). That would be Kyle Waldrop. Just my guess. Or if he is not 100%, at this point Deolis Guerra deserves the call up more than Jeff Manship who has been mediocre this season in AAA. (Matter of fact half of Rochester's roster deserves beeing called up before Manship at this point...)

 

They have 39 - they have 19 position players: Butera, Doumit, Mauer, Carroll, Casilla, Dozier, Morneau, Nishioka, Parmelee, Valencia, Arcia, Benson, Komatsu, Mastroianni, Plouffe, Revere, Span, Tosoni, Willingham

 

It looks like the "official" list on the Twins website is incorrect - Parmelee is omitted. He was optioned to Rochester, not outrighted, so he is still on the 40-man.

[SweetOne69]

Duensing is excellent as a reliever facing mostly lefties and is not good as a starter facing a bunch of righties.

His results so far this season dispute that. He even had a 3-inning outing recently were he retired all righties he faced.

[SweetOne69]

It looks like Blackburn is going to the DL instead of Doumit, but does Blackburn have options left? He isn't a 5-yr vet yet so he can be sent down without his permission, but does he have any options left or would have to clear waivers first.

[cr9617]

They are going to pay this joke $5.5 million next year. It's atrocious. I have no clue as to why they ever gave him that contract. It was straight-up irrational.

The Genius of Bill Smith.

 

That extension made no sense at the time, and, obviously, looks even worse now. No other organization in baseball would have overvalued Blackey the way the Twins did.

 

Where are all the Blackey apologists now?

[alarp33]

When was the last time Blacburn got shelled (or pitched, since they are hand in hand) where there wasn't an excuse offered afterwards?

"Arm was too strong, ball wasn't sinking" "Arm was a little sore" "Leg was sore". If you can't pitch effectively (which I dont think he can do healthy or not) then don't go to the damn mound.

[Thrylos]

It looks like Blackburn is going to the DL instead of Doumit, but does Blackburn have options left? He isn't a 5-yr vet yet so he can be sent down without his permission, but does he have any options left or would have to clear waivers first.

He has one option left