Spring Training Audio Diary: Rocco on Rules, Farmer on Hips, Julien on Patience & Gray on Winning - Caretaker Exclusive

[Brock Beauchamp]

Today's Caretaker-only audio diary includes Twins Manager Rocco Baldelli's bullpen plans, Kyle Farmer on his new (and old) teammate and interviews with Edouard Julien and Sonny Gray.

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Today's Caretaker-only audio diary includes Twins Manager Rocco Baldelli's bullpen plans, Kyle Farmer on his new (and old) teammate and interviews with Edouard Julien and Sonny Gray.

We're trying something new for Twins Daily's Caretakers: an audio report from John Bonnes on what he's seeing and hearing from players, coaches, and management inside Hammond Stadium. Today's report includes:

• News on Jorge Polanco's slow ramp up in spring training, and whether is knee is already a concern
• Emilio Pagan's offseason, and why his first bullpen session was so encouraging
• Thoughts from pitching coach Pater Maki on camp and how the Twins are adjusting to the new pitching clock.

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[Brock Beauchamp]

This piece is actually by John Bonnes FTR. There was an error in the last piece and I had to re-post his content so the audio would work.

[Dman]

Loving the updates and the insight!  Keep'em coming.

[Squirrel]

I found it interesting what Farmer said about how the Twins had tech stuff to help evaluate that the Reds didn’t have. And Gray makes me excited … let’s win!

I also found it interesting who has corner lockers. I guess that’s a big deal.

[stringer bell]

Great to hear these reports. Between John's report here and Gleeman and the Geek, there were lots of nuggets of information. Good--Maeda looks pretty good and has recovered virtually all of his velocity, Mahle also has gotten his velocity up. Not good--Balazovic will behind due to the broken jaw, Josh Winder is a ways behind because of off-season shoulder issues and Ronny Henriquez has been set back by pain near his elbow. Neutral--Kirilloff, Buxton and Polanco all seem to be slower ramping up with Kirilloff the furthest from playing in a game.