jtrinaldi

The Twins have no shot at bringing ANY Minor League team to Minnesota. To relocate a team it takes an average of 2-4 years (Portland to Tucscon). Getting rid of Rochester for a team in the PCL makes no Sense at wall whatsoever, there would be an imbalance of teams in the PCL. There will not be a MWL team in Minnesota either, so don't get your hopes up. There is simply no team in lower Minnesota that would be able to meet all the requirements needed to get a MWL team. They would first have to have a stadium that seats 7500 people. They would also need to have a town of 30,000. The 3rd reason Minnesota won't get a MILB team at all is because of the location. The MWL is perfect as of now, so why screw it up and put a team in another state? Cedar Rapids is the northern most team in Iowa. The MWL is based off of pairings of cities close to one another for Interleague play, as well as scheduling purposes. for example Beloit,Appleton Clinton,Kane County Cedar Rapids,Quad Cities Burlingont,Peroia Traveling distances would also be a bit extreme to get to Minnesota (any part of the state) and it would be out of the way for EVERY team in the MWL. There is just no room for a team in Minnesota and the MWL

I see where you are coming from, but as dumb as it sounds I would actually welcome a different team to Beloit. It would be nice to see a team come to Beloit that would be able to finish up the new Stadium that has been sitting on the table for the last 4 years. I know a lot about that situation and it seems like the Parent club may be to blame about the deal not being finalized. I think it would be best for Beloit and the Twins to part ways, but that is just me.

The thing about the Brewers,Cubs,Cardinals that is different than the Twins and their Low A affiliate is that they make it feel like you entering a part of their organization in each of their stadiums. Wisconsin's contract with the Brewers does not expire after this year so they are not a factor. It just seems that the Twins are the least involved team with their class A affiliate (Beloit) which may have to do with the new stadium deal not being done yet. These are the teams that expire after this year in All of A baseball. I honnestly wouldn't be surprised to see the Twins A affiliate next year be in the Sally league. If the Twins were so worried about location like you suggest, then why haven't they moved their AAA team to the International league or their AA team to the Southern league? The longest tenure that a Twins Class A affiliate has held before Beloit was QC for 6 years.Overall I think the Twins would like to move to the Sally league to try and get more attendance (they draw extremely high numbers) as well as having a closer base to where the head of their Minor League department is located (Fort Myers). Overall moving to the Sally is ultimately what I think the Twins do. Having any distance to Minnesota does not seem like it is a priority for the Twins, which is why I see the Twins looking to get closer to the head of their Minor League operations.http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/affiliate.cgi?id=MIN Here is a list of which team's contracts are up after this year. Beloit Snappers - Minnesota (signed through 2012) Bowling Green Hot Rods - Tampa Bay (signed through 2012) Burlington Bees - Oakland (signed through 2012) Cedar Rapids Kernels - Anaheim (signed through 2012) Clinton Lumber Kings - Seattle (signed through 2012) Dayton Dragons - Cincinnati (signed through 2012) Lock to extend Fort Wayne TinCaps - San Diego (signed through 2012) Lock to extend Kane County Cougars - Kansas City (signed through 2012) Lansing Lugnuts - Toronto (signed through 2012) Peoria Chiefs - Chicago (NL) (signed through 2012) Lock to extend Quad Cities River Bandits - St. Louis (signed through 2012) Lock to extend Asheville Tourists - Colorado (signed through 2012) Augusta GreenJackets - San Francisco (signed through 2012) Greensboro Grasshoppers - Miami (signed through 2012) Hagerstown Suns - Washington (signed through 2012) Hickory Crawdads - Texas (signed through 2012) Lakewood Blue Claws - Philadelphia (signed through 2012) Lexington Legends - Houston (signed through 2012) Savannah Sand Gnats - New York (NL) (signed through 2012)

Thats the word on the street

For anyone wondering Niko Goodrum and Max Kepler will not be playing in Beloit this year as many people speculated they would. They will be headlining next year's Class A affiliate which is not likely to be Beloit.

Rosi moved out of his host family's house because it is too far to get to the stadium (15 miles), so now he is within walking distance of Pohlman Field (3 blocks). It is hard for the Latin/Dominican players to live outside of walking distance to the stadium because most of them are only here March-September, which means that they have no Drivers license or anyway of getting to the stadium unless they live with an American player who has their license that could take them to the park each day.

Any chance in the Daily reports youn do transactiosn for the day as well? today there were a few New Britain +Caleb Theilbar +BJ Hermsen FT Myers -Caleb Theilbar -BJ Hermsen +Danny Ortiz +Nelvin Fuentez Beloit -Madison Boer -Danny Ortiz -Nelvin Fuentez +David Hurlbut +Danny Leachmen EX ST/E-Town -Danny Leachmen -David Hurlbut

Tonkin and Achter should be the next 2 guys to get called up to Ft.Myers for relief duties

I think Rosario and Sano will both be in Beloit the whole year, unless Eddie can reduce his errors. He has 6 this year while hitting .333. Rosario is also a year and a half older than Sano. I think Rosario will be moved up first if they do get moved up this year. Rosario shoots the gaps to drive in his RBI, while Sano is more of a True Power Hitter and is always swinging for the fenses.

I've seen him in Beloit the last few years, I was surprised as well when he got cut.

Speaking of Guerra http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=514854

I will once he hits Beloit likely next year.

I have pretty much everyone from the last 2 years, as well as this year. These photos can be found here. The photos from last year (salcedo,solliman,o rourke,gonzales) will be in Batch 1 or Batch 2. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Rinaldi-Photos/256164664420932?sk=photos I will be going on Saturday and Monday for anyone needing photos Gruver and Parker.

In Beloit it is pronounced as Shhh Boy yuh

Here is another Madison Boer pic if you want to use it. HAve several others in that album. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.360889200615144.71674.256164664420932&type=3#!/photo.php?fbid=360893000614764&set=a.360889200615144.71674.256164664420932&type=3&theater

he has enough defensive flas to keep him in A ball the whole year.

Did you encounter the infamous "Clinton Whore" during your Clinton trip?

Kane county has pitched down and away to sano after hitting his 3rd homer against them last Tuesday. I was watching the game from the box and Everything was down or away, other than the hanging curve that they left up in the zone and he hit it to dead left. Sano has also started to draw intentional walks including a few from KC and Clinton. Pitchers in the MWL are affraid to pitch to him, but that does not mean that he will be moving up by the end of the year.

Another thing you have to consider is when the Twins actually have a realistic chance of competing again. What I mean by that is how advanced are the top prospects, and when is the likely ETA. This is a similar situation to the Brewers when the produced Hart,Braun,Fielder,Weeks. Those guys came up within 3 years of eachother, and then were able to compete at a high level. The Twins have Parmelee and Henriks up right now, if they can contirbute decently now, then the rebuilding process could be anchored by those 2 in the future. Hicks is likely to be up in late 2013/start of 2014 with Salcedo likely a year or 2 behind him, followed by Sano and Rosario likely in 2015. If the Twins draft Appel he likely would arrive in the Majors in 2014 as a starter. IF the Twins draft Buxton and put him on the "Hicks,Boyd,Harrison Route" he would play 2012 in EX.ST followed by instructs. IN 2013 he would spend a full year in low A ball. In 2014 He would spend a FULL year in A+ ball, in 2015 he would reach AA likely for the full year. Then if he spends half a year in AAA ball and dominates his ETA would be 2016 All star break. The thing that makes this pick interesting is that Appel is that Appel is essentially 3 years above Buxton, and he is obviously more polished. He would likely start his first full year in AA. If the Twins draft Buxton here is what the development to the majors would look like. 2013: Hicks reaches majors sometime in middle of year. 2014: Salcedo,Arcia reaches Majors 2015: Rosario/Sano reach majors. 2016: Boyd/Harrison/Goodrum 2017: Buxton reaches majors. This is a rough example of how much longer it would take for the Twins to see Buxton produce in the majors if they take him over Appel. If the Twins draft Appel 2013: Hicks reaches majors 2014: Salcedo, Appel,Arica reach the majors 2015 Sano and Rosario reach the majors. 2016: Boyd,Harrison,Goodrum reach majors. Drafting Appel would expediate the Twins rebuilding process, and make a core 4 in between the next 2 years If you need me to elaborate more just ask.

The Astro's would be dumb not to take Buxton, who I think is the 1 premier talent in this years draft compared to last years with Bundy, Bradley,Bauer,hultzen,starling,cole. The Twins are getting Shafted for having such a bad record, compared to who they would have been able to take at 2 in last years draft class.

Beloit is headed to Clinton

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.355911437779587.70900.256164664420932&type=3#!/pages/Rinaldi-Photos/256164664420932 new ones.

The 1st one is an image I took,i am in kanecounty right now and will be posting pictures when I get back later tonight when I jave axxess to my computer

I am more surprised by Rosario, Sano has 3 Homers, and he only has 3 hits the whole year. Sano is batting .231 with 3 Homers and 9 RBI. Rosario is batting .385 1 Homer,2 RBI,4 stolen bases.

no prob. Gonna be in Kane County tomorrow and Wednesday before going up to Appleton for the Peoria vs WI series.