Perkins To DL, Rogers Called Up

How many times now has he reported an injury after getting shelled? Hope this gets fixed ASAP, and he comes back healthy & effective. 

This should allow Pressly to pitch in some later innings, right?

He was only throwing 91 MPH the other night when he was giving up lasers. Curious when the injury occurred, and if anyone has asked. 

The good thing is that Jepsen has been lights out so far.

Can I assume they waited until this morning to summon Rogers, so that he'll be unavailable for tonight's game, even though they had to have known this was a possibility since at least yesterday, probably longer?

 

Or am I just too cynical when it comes to this team's self-inflicted pain?

Cynical? Never!!

Can I assume they waited until this morning to summon Rogers, so that he'll be unavailable for tonight's game, even though they had to have known this was a possibility since at least yesterday, probably longer?

 

Or am I just too cynical when it comes to this team's self-inflicted pain?

Speaking of self-inflicted pain, what's the over-under on how many RH batters faced until the Twins realize that Rogers is only a LOOGY at the ML level? Any fan with two gray matter cells to rub together can take a quick glance at his BBref minor league splits and determine in about 10 seconds that he should exclusively be used against lefties. I'm setting the over/under at 50 right handed PA's.  

Let the bullpen redo begin

Like this move. Perkins has been awful.. Interested to see what Rogers can do

Who sees more time, Tonkin, or Rogers? 

Good question.  After what has happened in the 1st 7 games, why has Tonkin pitched only 1.1 innings?

I would suggest something similar with the outfield/DH situation. Send Park down to AAA so he can work out his swing (and committ to it, he stays until at least June 1), and have Sano half time at DH, half in the outfield. Use that opening and LF to give Kepler, Rosario and Arcia each at least 3 starts a week for the next month to 6 weeks.  Kepler and Rosario can also get an occasional start in CF when a non fly ball pitcher is going like Gibson or Milone. When and IF Park is ready to come back around June 1, send down whichever of those 3 has played the worst (or Buxton if there is no improvement).  The only person left out is Polanco but there just isn't a starting place for him right now unless one of the infielders gets hurt.

 

This is spot on, except that I would try to get Plouffe some reps in RF.  I would say get Mauer some reps in RF, but God forbid we sacrifice the Baby Jesus for all the sins of the front office. 

It just seems, to me Brock, it is not a well planned system.......they didn't have a plan for Park/Plouffe/Sano to be on the same team, but bid on Park. They jerked May around last year for that 1 spot start. They never played Sano in the OF, in the eventuality this might happen. They didn't call up Rogers last year to be a LOOGY, despite needing one, and he's not pitched out of the bullpen at all, despite most people thinking his future is as a LOOGY. They often play with a short bench, or call up legit prospects to sit around. It just doesn't look planned from where I sit.

It's not just the past two years. They've dragged their feet on DL'ing players and leaving the manager with a short bench for as long as I can remember. And they're constantly trying to fit square pegs in to round holes due to lack of foresight.