Article: Lewis, Kirilloff, Rooker Among Twins Non-Roster Invites

[Seth Stohs]

 

How the heck do you NOT invite Tyler Wells? He had THE best numbers in the ENTIRE ORGANIZATION. Some of those position guys had mediocre years to be honest.

 

So much goes into the non-roster invites beyond play. For a guy like Wells, a starting pitching who would not make the Opening Day roster and is well down the depth chart, they're going to let him come in a few weeks later and watch his innings. They can start working on getting him ready for the season rather than eating a couple of innings here and there. Also, he could still go over there some. 

 

Generally, they're making sure they have enough players. Need extra catchers to catch all the bullpens. Need extra infielders. Could be any number of reasons. 

[Seth Stohs]

 

From what I have seen, the feeling is he will start in Ft. Myers and move up if things go well in May or June.

 

I'll be completely shocked if Kirilloff doesn't start in Pensacola. Lewis will start in Ft. Myers and could move up to the Blue Wahoos by June. 

[Seth Stohs]

 

It certainly would make a nice impression with the new Pensacola affiliate.

 

Being young and high top end talent, surely as per usual, Kirriloff and Lewis will be among the first re-assigned. I wonder if Rooker will get a longer look. There's a bit of a logjam ahead of him, but he appears much closer to being a legit consideration.

 

The fact that they are non-roster guys likely mean that they could stick around longer. Nick Gordon lasted quite a while the last two years. I would guess that he will move down sooner this year because he is on the 40-man roster. Multiple reasons for that, but one of them is that if 40-man roster guys get hurt while in big-league camp, they go on tnhe MLB DL.

[diehardtwinsfan]

I could see Rooker and Ralley as possibles to make the team, but I doubt any of these guys do. I think it's good for all of them though. I wouldn't be shocked at all though if one of these guys gets added to the 40 man and called up at some point. That will depend largely on how Cron, Austin, and Cruz do.