Twins Claim Edgar Garcia off Waivers

45 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

Claiming a guy with stuff with options? Great idea. 

De Leon was the (former) Reds pitcher who fits this description I wanted them to scoop up.  Now that they have some roster space…hope they do so.

Four pitches seems like too many for a reliever. Not that other teams haven't already tried this, but I imagine the Twins will tell him to focus on only a couple of those.

Typical Twins player aquisition.   Another player other organizations released or put on waivers.  Believe me I hope he works out.  But it's not likely.

Though you never know how he will do, which player does he take the place of on the 40 man roster? That is the real question. His signing is as much of a crapshoot as drafting a player in the 10th round or trading for a player currently playing A ball.

Problem is he will probably stay in the minors and take up a spot from someone else at least potentially.  I'm just saying this is the type of move the Twins take.  Too cheap to sign a quality pitcher, and always looking for bargain basement deals.  It doesn't work out too well does it?

1 hour ago, twinfan said:

Though you never know how he will do, which player does he take the place of on the 40 man roster? That is the real question. His signing is as much of a crapshoot as drafting a player in the 10th round or trading for a player currently playing A ball.

Burrows, Colome, Coulombe, Farrell, and Minaya all seem like guys that could be released pretty easily.

Also, as Garcia is currently having success at AAA, and has pitched part of 3 seasons in MLB, all before the age of 25, he is massively more likely to succeed than a player in A ball, or any of Brandon Lopez/Sean Miller/Randy Leblanc/CK Irby (the Twins 10th round picks from 2013-2016)

1 hour ago, Mike Sixel said:

What pitcher could they sign right now? I mean, this guy is there now. They will give him a shot this year. He may or may not take a spot next year......but right now? There is no harm right now. Of course it doesn't work often, few great players are sitting around......but it only has to work once (see, Badoo, Akil, Detroit Tigers, for an example).

Or Santana, Johan.

48 minutes ago, chpettit19 said:

Typical MLB Organization acquisition. Literally every team in the league does this. This happens basically every day in baseball. Remember Travis Blankenhorn? He's been waived and picked up roughly 139385 times this season by basically every team in the league.

All sarcasm aside, this is a move every team makes all the time. It's not some "cheap Twins" move. It's just the business of baseball that usually isn't noticed.

One of the teams claiming Blankenhorn was, IIRC, the World Series favorite LA Dodgers.

3 hours ago, Cap'n Piranha said:

One of the teams claiming Blankenhorn was, IIRC, the World Series favorite LA Dodgers.

Such a cheap Dodgers move....