Berrios Love Thread/Time for the Twins to push their chips in?

[DaveW]

Yeah, this kid is a stud. Looks like a solid #2 guy thus far, he keeps up what he did tonight? we might have ourselves the first legit front of the rotation SP since Liriano and santana.

 

Sano=stud

Buxton, starting to come apround.

Kepler, polanco, Vargas, Dozier, Castro: solid role players.

 

Berrios and Santana: solid 1-2 punch it's looking like.

 

To do list:

-Fix the bullpen

-get a true #3 type starter to help stabilize the rotation a bit.

 

Get it done new regime!

Edited May 19, 2017 by DaveW

[Twinsoholic]

Let's get Mejia up and pitching well as the 5th starter If he pitches well, then maybe Hughes is the 5th starter.

Berrios is awesome!

[kab21]

If Berrios is this good then we need to see more of Tepesch because he is better than Berrios.

BRING TEPESCH BACK!

[DaveW]

Let's get Mejia up and pitching well as the 5th starter If he pitches well, then maybe Hughes is the 5th starter.

Berrios is awesome!

I still think they need another solid arm they can count on. A Clayton richard type (hat tip: common man)

 

Also that potentially opens up Hughes to the pen if he struggles or arm fatigue (where he could be pretty effective)

[KirbyDome89]

Just think how much better he would be if he spent a few more weeks in AAA....

[Linus]

Just think how much better he would be if he spent a few more weeks in AAA....

Or perhaps the Twins brought him up at precisely the right time.....

[jokin]

 

Or perhaps the Twins brought him up at precisely the right time.....

 

Nope.

[drjim]

I still think they need another solid arm they can count on. A Clayton richard type (hat tip: common man)

 

Also that potentially opens up Hughes to the pen if he struggles or arm fatigue (where he could be pretty effective)

Is Richard any better than Hughes?

[DaveW]

Is Richard any better than Hughes?

No, but likely better than whoever starts Saturday.

 

Also it's more than likely that at least one of Hughes, Santiago or Meija gets injured or becomes ineffective.

 

Literally nobody else (besides Duffey) who ha a chance to succeed this year for the rotation, and they won't move Duffey back to rotation.

 

Never can have enough SP!

[COtwin]

That was the most fun I have had watching a Twins pitching performance in a long time. Most unhitable mix since Lirianos slider (on a good day) or Johans change. Most times watching a Twins pitcher lately I am hoping our defense is in the right place.

[gil4]

 

Just think how much better he would be if he spent a few more weeks in AAA....

Let's test that theory using Tepesch - if he spends the next two years in AAA he should be ready to win the Cy Young in 2019, right? 

[KirbyDome89]

 

Or perhaps the Twins brought him up at precisely the right time.....

It doesn't matter if they brought him up last week, midseason, or September, it would've been the "right time," in every scenario....pretty convenient...

[DaveW]

It doesn't matter if they brought him up last week, midseason, or September, it would've been the "right time," in every scenario....pretty convenient...

think to a person everyone here wishes Berrios was up sooner (or in some cases a lot sooner)

 

I think we should just enjoy the performances so far, and hope it continues.

 

Besides if the Twins miss the playoffs by 2-3 games this year, then we can spend all off season complaining about this

Edited May 19, 2017 by DaveW

[HitInAPinch]

I really like that kid!

[Comrade Bork]

11 k's!

[Joe A. Preusser]

It doesn't matter if they brought him up last week, midseason, or September, it would've been the "right time," in every scenario....pretty convenient...

Also very convenient for people who want to complain is the fact that in this day and age every move can instantly be scrutinized in a vacuum and torn to shreds. It's a good time to be a hater/malcontent/grouch!

[Craig Arko]

A good time is 'while the team is still in first place,' and that's exactly what it was.

 

Now maybe it's Burdi's time, too.

[dgwills]

It's pretty damn nice to see a pitching prospect finally working out. Berrios certainly deserves it for all his hard work as well. As far as pulling of a trade to pull in another pitcher, I just don't see that happening. The only person we really have to trade is Dozier and there isn't much of a market. Not to mention it would likely make the team worse anyways.

[mikelink45]

Hughes to the bullpen.  His progress has been mediocre at best.  We have three pitchers in the rotation and until someone else in the minors looks like they can come through it will have to be Mejia and Gibson filling our the rotation.  

Who is the next young pitcher?  I read the minor league reports and the ones that were rated high in our prospect lists do not seem to be performing at a level to interest the MLB team. 

[Joe A. Preusser]

There's always the possibility that Wright is in our rotation next year?

[Old Twins Cap]

Twins short on pitching is no surprise, especially after May went down.

 

But, comparatively, Berrios, Santana, Santiago, Hughes and Mejia may be a better rotation than KC, Chicago and .... a few other teams.

 

Bullpen is another matter.  Gotta hope that Belisle and Pressley can hold it together or this will be a really long year in the late innings.

[Shane Wahl]

Baxendale isn't currently injured, right? Anyway, he, Burdi, Bard, Melotakis, and a healthy Chargois could turn that bullpen around. Law of averages says Pressly will return to form too. I don't know about some of the others . . .

[diehardtwinsfan]

I have to think there's one reliever that can be removed from the 25 to allow for a rotating carousel of prospects out of AAA.  There's plenty of guys who deserve a shot and if they fail you can recycle them for someone else.  I don't think it's unreasonable to think that at least one guy in AAA can outperform someone in the MLB pen.  It might take a couple of guys to rotate through, but at some point, they need to try.

[Linus]

Personally I would rather run Hughes out there than Gibson at least right now. Hughes has very little stuff but knows how to battle. Gibson, not at all.

[drjim]

[DaveW]

 

Twins short on pitching is no surprise, especially after May went down.

 

But, comparatively, Berrios, Santana, Santiago, Hughes and Mejia may be a better rotation than KC, Chicago and .... a few other teams.

 

Bullpen is another matter.  Gotta hope that Belisle and Pressley can hold it together or this will be a really long year in the late innings.

Bullpen definitely needs outside help, and fast. They need to try to get 2 "legit" RP via trade IMO.

 

[Steve Lein]

 

Hughes to the bullpen.  His progress has been mediocre at best.  We have three pitchers in the rotation and until someone else in the minors looks like they can come through it will have to be Mejia and Gibson filling our the rotation.  

Who is the next young pitcher?  I read the minor league reports and the ones that were rated high in our prospect lists do not seem to be performing at a level to interest the MLB team. 

 

Yeah. Gonsalves isn't pitching yet. Romero hasn't taken off. Stewart is struggling.

 

There's not a lot of high-potential options for the rotation right now.

 

Just think how good the Twins might be looking if May was in the rotation and doing as well as he was before he was bumped to the bullpen.

 

I do agree they need to start overhauling the bullpen, I think it's overdue already. Give Alan Busenitz a crack. Maybe Nik Turley. Need to get Chargois back when healthy. Bring Burdi up from AA, promote Curtiss...

Edited May 19, 2017 by Steve Lein

[brvama]

I don't know if this has been posted, however, Mike Berardino had a good article about Berrios using a MLB in his side sessions at AAA. Apparently it has helped in his transition. Maybe there's hope for our other pitching prospects. Here's the link:

http://www.twincities.com/2017/05/15/new-twins-policy-helping-jose-berrios-adjust-to-different-seams-of-big-league-ball/

[brvama]

Can't seem to edit my post. Berrios started using a MLB ball in Rochester that he has indicated has helped.

[Ebby Calvin Laloosh]

That was fun to watch. Two references to Jose Fernandez, Ian Desmond after the game and Latroy during the broadcast (I admit when I heard Latroy say it I thought "Easy, let's not get ahead of ourselves." But with Desmond saying it too makes me get a little excited.

 

I could watch him pitch from the wind up all day. So smooth and easy and no one can seem to find that fastball with a bat. Still pretty early, but if he keeps this up I'll tune in every five days even if the wheels come off the rest of the team.