Eddie Rosario Promoted To Twins; Arcia Placed On DL

Just the first of (hopefully) many!  Let the games begin!

And it is a true 15 day kind of replacement with Rosario headed back down afterwards. When Hicks comes up, it will be for good (or bad--then he will be gone).

I will say that I don't know if this is really a good thing for Rosario at the moment. If he struggles on top of his lackluster time in AAA and AA the past 100 or whatever games, then I could see the rest of 2015 being a problem for him.

I wish they had Danny Ortiz on the 40-man so he could take this spot instead.

I don't get it. The better move would have been to call up Hicks, first to fill in for Arcia, and then to take over CF. 

I'm not so sure. If he hits well, I can see him taking over in CF when Arcia returns. 

After a pretty thoroughly sub-par half season at AA last year and a sub-par month at AAA? I actually don't hope, for his sake, that he hits well in 12+ games and then the Twins keep him up. Have we learned nothing from the Aaron Hicks experience?

I agree with letting Hicks stay on a roll.  I think it is critical for him to keep it going in Rochester and really develop as much confidence as he can.  At that point he comes up and doesn't go back.

Who knows, maybe our outfield will be Rosario, Hicks and Hunter by mid - June.

I don't really agree with the decision but that doesn't change the fact that I'm excited to see what Rosario can do. 

I have long been rooting for Aaron Hicks.  This move makes sense to me if the Twins committed to a plan for Hicks before the season started and are sticking to it. 

Hicks has done well at AAA but perhaps they wanted him to get "X" number of AB's and he isn't near "X" yet.  Even before this, people on these forums were not in agreement about the appropriate time to call him up.

After the way he has been handled the last couple of years, maybe management is just being conservative and giving him the greatest opportunity to succeed in AAA and then later in the majors.

We'll see how he responds.

Danny Santana:

2014 AAA: .268/.311/.381

Called up after 24 games

Eddie Rosario

2014 AAA: .242/.280/.379

Called up after 23 games

As Eddie's adopter:

Congrats Eddie!

Excited to see how he performs in The Show. This guy has shown incredible flashes of talent, even if he wasn't tearing it up in AAA. I'm sure he is on top of the world. Hopefully he shows he belongs, but if he doesn't he's only 23 and it certainly would not hurt his potential. 

I agree with letting Hicks stay on a roll.  I think it is critical for him to keep it going in Rochester and really develop as much confidence as he can.  At that point he comes up and doesn't go back.

 

Who knows, maybe our outfield will be Rosario, Hicks and Hunter by mid - June.

After how wretched our outfield defense has been, how awesome would it be to have a (likely) above-average outfield defense in Hicks, Bucky and Rosario by the end of the season. 

Rosario made a good impression in spring training and evidently that was enough to place him first in line for a promotion. I expect he'll struggle quite a bit as MLB pitchers take advantage of his free-swinging ways.

Yeah he is probably going to need to show more patience to be a good hitting corner outfielder in the bigs, or pitchers will exploit him. 

We recently faced a team with a lot of lefties.   That would have made more sense for HIcks to come up.  I know his splits are better from the left side than what they were but I would still like him to come up facing lefties to start with and get his confidence up a bit.    Personally, I would have liked a platoon of sorts among Robsinson, Rosario and Hicks. and send Schaefer or Nunez down. 

I am pumped to see him come up!  Hope does well!  I will be at the game tonight hope he plays.  Cant pass up the Phil Hughes star wars bobblehead. 

Rosario made a good impression in spring training and evidently that was enough to place him first in line for a promotion. I expect he'll struggle quite a bit as MLB pitchers take advantage of his free-swinging ways.

Agreed, and it was Molitor that he really impressed.  And, also remember what Molitor said about Hicks after he was cut from the MLB camp:

“I told him I appreciated his work down here and his desire to try to improve various aspects of his game,” Twins manager Paul Molitor said. “I think the bottom line was he didn’t perform particularly well.”

“You take full consideration of how the spring goes,” Molitor said. “When you look at the body of work, you have to consider all things that happened down here and that was part of that. He understands he needs to be engaged in the game. He’s a guy who if he defends well and has good at-bats and stays aggressive on the basepaths, he can be helpful up here — and not make mental mistakes.”

I also don't discredit the concept that this was both a message AND the continuation of a plan for Hicks.  Seems to be the kinda thing Molitor does....

Rosario has never had success above A-ball. He's 23, so it's not like he's especially young for a prospect, either. His reputation far exceeds his results... I understand that it's for two weeks, but I thought the Twins were trying to win? He doesn't give them the best chance to do so.