Former Twins 2023 tracking

[RpR]

Nelson Cruz with only 40 at bats is hitting .237 with 5 home runs and 18 rbi.

[SwainZag]

Joey Votto making his season debut for the Reds tonight.   With him back at first base, Spencer Steer will make his 4th appearance this season in LF.  Outside of the 24 innings he has played there this season, he had exactly one game in the OF in his minor league career.  Curious to see how this works out.

[lecroy24fan]

First domino of trade season falls. Eduardo Escobar to the Angels for 2 minor leaguers, Coleman Crow (#8 Fangraphs LAA Org) and Landon Marceau (#25 LAA Org). Both RHP.

[lecroy24fan]

Also the Mets are paying all but the MLB minimum for the rest of the season to him.

[Doctor Wu]

Meanwhile, Brent Rooker's batting average and OBP keeps dropping in Oakland, and Gary Sanchez is now hitting below .200 for the Padres. The Twins need bats, but not sure if even guys like that could help matters at this point.

[stringer bell]

Congratulations to former Twins Luis Arraez, Yennier Canó and Brent Rooker. All are All-Stars—Rooker and Canó were named today, Arraez was elected to start. 

[lecroy24fan]

Not sure how Rooker makes it over Esteury Ruiz. 12 fewer HR's but Ruiz has 42 SB and 20 pt higher BA. Otherwise the rest of their stats are close enough to be a push. But have for Brent.

[Doctor Wu]

13 hours ago, lecroy24fan said:

Not sure how Rooker makes it over Esteury Ruiz. 12 fewer HR's but Ruiz has 42 SB and 20 pt higher BA. Otherwise the rest of their stats are close enough to be a push. But have for Brent.

I would have chosen Ruiz too, but as you noted, Rooker's home run total was probably what got him the nod. Hard to pick a player from a dismal Oakland team this year, but it's still cool that Rooker made it this far. 

[Doctor Wu]

Thinking about ex-Twins, what is the current status of Chris Archer? Unless I missed it, he's not pitching for anyone this year. 

[Shaitan]

Trey Cabbage to make MLB debut

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/07/angels-select-trey-cabbage-outright-david-fletcher.html

[nicksaviking]

Congrats to Trey! He was in this organization a long time. Might have gotten a shot here had that COVID 2020 season not wiped out his AA promotion season. 

[Twodogs]

On 7/4/2023 at 6:32 AM, Doctor Wu said:

Thinking about ex-Twins, what is the current status of Chris Archer? Unless I missed it, he's not pitching for anyone this year. 

For some reason I thought he was down in Miami at some point in time?

[SwainZag]

On 7/14/2023 at 6:55 PM, Shaitan said:

Trey Cabbage to make MLB debut

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/07/angels-select-trey-cabbage-outright-david-fletcher.html

You beat me to it!  Saw him get the pinch hit call in the ninth tonight and didn't realize he had his debut last night. 

[Doctor Wu]

On 7/15/2023 at 10:02 AM, Twodogs said:

For some reason I thought he was down in Miami at some point in time?

Not sure, I don't recall reading anything about him at all this season, which is why I was wondering if he was playing anywhere, even in Japan, this year. 

[Doctor Wu]

What do people think will happen to Nelson Cruz at this point? Is he finished, or will another team give him a shot this season?

[Danchat]

The Reds have a lot of youth in their lineup and have another hot rookie coming up. Let's see how well CES converts his AAA dominance to the majors.

[RpR]

15 hours ago, Doctor Wu said:

What do people think will happen to Nelson Cruz at this point? Is he finished, or will another team give him a shot this season?

Good question.

His number were not that bad, although Ks were up.

It seems the day he was traded from the Twins, his fire went out.

[Doctor Wu]

Kind of cool that Danny Coulombe just got his first career save with Baltimore, and he did it by getting our old pal Luis Arraez to line out. 

[Vanimal46]

It still amazes me we were able to trade Donaldson away and not have to eat any of the remaining money on his deal. 

[big dog]

1 hour ago, Vanimal46 said:

It still amazes me we were able to trade Donaldson away and not have to eat any of the remaining money on his deal. 

That has to go down as one of the better deals in Twins history, I think.

[Danchat]

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The Mariners announced a few roster moves prior to tonight’s game, selecting the contract of right-hander Devin Sweet and recalling fellow righty Prelander Berroa, with both players set to make their respective major league debuts as soon as they get into a game.

Berroa is the first - and probably only - prospect from the Sam Dyson trade to reach the majors. He was traded to the Mariners last year for Donovan Walton.

[stringer bell]

22 minutes ago, Danchat said:

Berroa is the first - and probably only - prospect from the Sam Dyson trade to reach the majors. He was traded to the Mariners last year for Donovan Walton.

Didn't Jaylin Davis get traded for Dyson, as well? He had a minute or two in the majors IIRC.

[Danchat]

2 hours ago, stringer bell said:

Didn't Jaylin Davis get traded for Dyson, as well? He had a minute or two in the majors IIRC.

Correct, I forgot about him, I thought the other two players traded were international teenagers. Davis has 95 PAs between 2019-2021 coming in at .203 / .573 OPS. I do remember some being upset that he wasn't promoted after demolishing AAA. Looks like he's at the Mets AAA affiliate with a middling triple slash line with a pretty high strikeout rate.

[Doctor Wu]

On 7/17/2023 at 9:53 AM, Danchat said:

The Reds have a lot of youth in their lineup and have another hot rookie coming up. Let's see how well CES converts his AAA dominance to the majors.

It's only a handful of games so far, but Encarnacion-Strand has already homered and batting over .300. I know, I know; small sample size, but I think he's going to be a keeper for the Reds. 

[stringer bell]

Former Twins catcher Ben Rohrvedt was recalled by the Yankees. It looks like he will get a decent chance to show what he can do as Jose Trevino is set to have season-ending surgery. 

[Eris]

Trey Cabbage had his first HR last night. 

[Doctor Wu]

20 hours ago, Eris said:

Trey Cabbage had his first HR last night. 

Great to see that. He was in the starting lineup for the Angels every game over the weekend, but that homer was the obvious highlight for him. 

[Dave Borton]

Smeltzer, pitching for Jax Shrimp, AAA for the Fish.

6.10 ERA, 1.67 wHip

Sanchez. Had the Detroit/Padres game on radio. Sanchez catching for SD. Hitting .180.

[Dave Borton]

Josh Donaldson has a torn right calf and could miss the rest of the season.

He would finish his Yankees career having hit just .207/.293/.385 while missing 159 of a possible 324 games and getting paid $51.5 million. Donaldson will be a 38-year-old free agent this offseason.

Thank you Cash($)man.
 

[Doctor Wu]

18 hours ago, davidborton said:

Smeltzer, pitching for Jax Shrimp, AAA for the Fish.

6.10 ERA, 1.67 wHip

Sanchez. Had the Detroit/Padres game on radio. Sanchez catching for SD. Hitting .180.

Yeah, his average his dipped quite a bit, but he's had a few timely homers for San Diego in his short time there. But man, what a black hole catching has become for the Padres.