Twins Acquire Tommy Nance From Blue Jays To Bolster Bullpen

All in All, a good acquisition!

Nance immediately becomes one of the top 4 relievers on the team.

Are they optioning Adams or Orze?

Yech.  Like Sprock. This guy is average, which for this bullpen is, unfortunately, elite.

At least he is cheap!

This ain't movin the needle a whole helluva lot, but he's probably better than what we've been trotting out there. We got Go and Nance the last few days, so at least they're trying to get a little help. 

5 minutes ago, ashbury said:

b-r.com has a "leverage index" that looks at the game situation when a pitcher enters the game.  On the Twins, for example, Rogers (1.47), Gomez (1.46), Morris (1.36) and Banda (1.35) lead the staff in highest leverage, which sort of confirms the eye test as to when they get brought in, and also perhaps attests to Shelton's strategy to spread the opportunities around instead of having a rigid setup-closer pecking order.  By contrast, Laweryson has a very low 0;70 leverage index, again conforming to what you might expect for a pitcher of his current caliber.

On the Jays this year, it's hardly surprising that Louis Varland's usage results in a very high 1.90 leverage index.  Tommy Nance?  0.53.

John Schneider apparently has had very low confidence in Nance.  Take it for what it's worth. 

Maybe Shelton/Hawkins/Maki will work some magic with him and get good performance when the game is on the line that Schneider didn't feel was possible.

Schneider also has much better options. Their bullpen is quite good with an ERA of 3.81 versus the Twins 5.45.

Meh. 

Well a college guy hitting the heck out of the ball in A while learning to catch may appear better than he is, but it seems that's worth a thirty-five year old with three years of team control remaining, which may look worse than it is.  Alas our bullpen is still in a state where guys like Nance can start a career and be very useful, so I won't complain at all.  At least we're picking up average players for the MLB team.

I thought we'd blocked the Jays phone number on the FO's phones after the Varland trade?