Simeon Woods Richardson will make his debut tonight for Wichita

[Lucas Seehafer PT]

 

[bean5302]

About time! Hopefully, whatever the Twins were having him work on while on the Developmental List plays well!

[DocBauer]

Excited about this. Have we heard why it's taken so long to get him going?

[Sielk]

17 minutes ago, DocBauer said:

Excited about this. Have we heard why it's taken so long to get him going?

He didn't get to pitch during the Olympics and had to ramp up again to a starter's workload. 

It's really annoying. Essentially, I don't mind prospects going to the Olympics. But to have him go to Tokyo and thus miss a month of valuable development time only to have him sit on the bench and then miss another month of valuable development time because he has to ramp up again? That's so stupid...

[DocBauer]

5 minutes ago, Sielk said:

He didn't get to pitch during the Olympics and had to ramp up again to a starter's workload. 

It's really annoying. Essentially, I don't mind prospects going to the Olympics. But to have him go to Tokyo and thus miss a month of valuable development time only to have him sit on the bench and then miss another month of valuable development time because he has to ramp up again? That's so stupid...

Makes sense. Just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed an injury tweak or something. Thanks!

[Squirrel]

3 hours ago, Sielk said:

He didn't get to pitch during the Olympics and had to ramp up again to a starter's workload. 

It's really annoying. Essentially, I don't mind prospects going to the Olympics. But to have him go to Tokyo and thus miss a month of valuable development time only to have him sit on the bench and then miss another month of valuable development time because he has to ramp up again? That's so stupid...

Stupid for whom? I mean, a once in a lifetime opportunity ... I'd have taken it. I don't think it's delayed his over all development significantly. Just delayed his start in the Twins org.

[bean5302]

Woods-Richardson didn't start a game during the actual medal events, but he was only absent from the mound for 3 weeks as the Olympic Games were actually quite fast. It doesn't normally take 4 weeks for a player who's missed 4 weeks to be stretched back out so there was definitely something else going on. Woods-Richardson started 7/15 in AA and was assigned to the Developmental League on 8/11. The Developmental List cannot be used for injury rehab so who knows what was really going on?

[Sielk]

2 hours ago, Squirrel said:

Stupid for whom? I mean, a once in a lifetime opportunity ... I'd have taken it. I don't think it's delayed his over all development significantly. Just delayed his start in the Twins org.

I don't blame him at all for taking that opportunity. I definitely would have done it as well, in his place. 

I was just commenting how disappointing it is that he essentially missed 1 1/2 month of the season and still didn't get to pitch even a single inning in relief in the Olympics, let alone a start.

Maybe the experience alone was still worth it to him but I would have been a little bit frustrated if I had gone to Tokyo only to sit in the dugout.

And maybe you're right and the effect on his development will be minimal, considering he is still rather young for AA. I guess I am just a bit annoyed that one of our few top SP prospects that didn't get injured still missed a lot of time this season and wasn't even rewarded for it in the form of an Olympic appearance.