Twins Claim RHP Daniel Duarte, DFA RHP Ryan Jensen

Duarte has an option left according to Fangraphs.

What makes him worth more than Jensen? Is the pile of AAAA not big enough yet? 

3 minutes ago, Fatbat said:

What makes him worth more than Jensen? Is the pile of AAAA not big enough yet? 

It looks like they like Jensen even less than Balazovic which means he must be pretty bad. I keep waiting for them to find a pitcher BETTER than Balazovic for the 40 man roster.

Are we really complaining about the Twins trying to sneak interesting arms onto the AAA roster.  In most cases won't mean anything. However, if we hit on 1 or 2 of them,  no one will be complaining during the season.  

LOL   according the article the Ryan Jensen we DFA's is a 48 year old pitcher who last pitched in 2005.   Damn we really are scraping the bottom of the barrel.   

26 minutes ago, nicksaviking said:

All part of my plan to be be promoted from Twins Daily Moderator to Minnesota Twins General Manager.

I'm just glad I didn't have to do anything. 

As this off season goes:  yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn.  That includes the salary dumping trade of Polanco

13 minutes ago, nicksaviking said:

Yeah, sweet gig if you have the connnections:

Seems like I may be your man, keep me in mind! 

Incremental improvements 

2 hours ago, nicksaviking said:

Yeah, keep at it and little by little they'll end up with David Bednar. 

May.be,  they started with an open slot and filled it with a lotto ticket and then they filled it with a AAAA player with an option.  Thus incremental improvement 

In his short time in the majors, the cutter looks like a legitimately plus pitch; had a 35% Whiff rate.  However, his 4-seamer was awful, despite having above-average velo.  Neither the slider or changeup are impressive, but they were mediocre in a small sample.  If they can fix the 4seam he could be something, but most likely it doesn't improve and he doesn't last on the 40 man the whole year.

Jensen will most likely make it through.  Rosters are filling up.  He has been passed up by the bottom teams multiple times.  

I don't mind the Twins digging through the waiver wire, looking for potential upside options for the bullpen that they can hopefully either DFA and get through or assign to AAA at the start of the season. It's not a bad way to sift through and find a couple of additional options as you churn through some guys at the back end to figure out who can be effective for the season. TB does this all the time and it's worked for them, and the Twins have had some success at it too. It's a marginal move to be sure, but they're trying to give themselves as many outs as possible while avoiding investing significant dollars in what often tend to be fungible relievers (and that's what a lot of those guys who get 1-2 year deals at $4-7M really are).

Feels like Jensen can pass waivers at this point?

It looks like this year's 40-man roster game of musical chairs has begun!