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The only relievers on the 40-man are: Tyler Robertson (not eligible to return) Caleb Thielbar Michael Tonkin I don't see it happening. And I don't see them bringing in Gibson or May. might activate De Vries, but he will be a starter

starting tomorrow; on paternity leave. The Twins said that a "corresponding move" will be made. Here are the healthy remaining position players on the Twins' 40-man roster: Chris Herrmann Josmil Pinto Danny Santana Oswaldo Arcia Joe Benson Methinks that the Ossie Arcia era will begin tomorrow...

yeah in my book. Better arm and better accuracy. But Montana had a better supporting cast. Other than Super Duper, Marino had no receivers... Clayton was so and so. And Marino's teams had no defense, no running back and questionable O-lines, unlike Montana's 49er teams. It is a team thing.

but getting rid of the guy who took the gold, while they are keeping the rest, says something. No?

That "loser Dan Marino" IIRC led an undefeated NFL team... (And Hostetler was a great QB in West-by-God-Virginia.) And in my book Marino was a better QB that lots in his era (including Montana and Elway). And another point to my argument that it is a team sport.... and not an individual sport.

Winning in the post season and winning a title or two will make him win with a lot of people. That has always been my biggest issue with Gardenhire (giving up and looking beaten against some opponents and whining about individual efforts -like the Hicks' example- vs. team non-accomplishments, which is pretty darn divisive. You win as a team and you lose as a team. And if you don't win, you should not be happy. That simple. And he has not installed that.)

Ha I am just a bit satisfied to see people joining the Fire Gardy bandwagon 5 years or so after I keep saying that the Twins need to do that... Too bad it took 2 horrid seasons for that to happen. Still miss Sean Schulte's Firegardy.com blog btw, do you remember it?

I think that there are couple of issues here (and I am talking about the methodology not about the premise and/or the reasons.) - I think that as long as the government officially separates "race" from "national origin", the Latino black folks should be included in the stats. As a matter of fact, with the open definition of the term, if they are from the Americas (which includes Dominican, Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico etc) and black, they are "African American". And sometimes it gets really really interesting on how to qualify this. A couple of examples with former Twins' players. Chili Davis: born in Jamaica, came with his family as a kid in this country and they settled here. He became a US Citizen as a kid and was drafted from a US high school. Is he an African American? David Ortiz & Tony Oliva: Amateur free agents from Dominican and Cuba and then became US Citizens after living for a while in this country. Are they African Americans? Not? Magically became African Americans when they got naturalized? The line is way way too thin. And there are a lot of Latin Americans who really feel discriminated upon, when the world "American" is applied to denote "US Citizens". Extremely ironic since the guy whom the world originated for (Amerigo Vespucci) landed on the West Indies and Brazil and not on the Potomac - My gut feeling is that this is more of a supply situation vs. demand situation. So I'd love to see them have a baseline of how many black (African American/Whatever) kids play varsity baseball in the US in high school and in College (as % of total) vis-a-vis the 70s and 80s. I suspect that they are fewer and that this is the root cause for that difference in the majors now vs. the 70s and 80s.

Awful leadership? What are you talking about? This is the equivalent of someone's manager sending an e-mail to the whole company about having issues with something you did and you found out that way instead of an 1-1 talk in his/her office. Gardy is a jerk. Period. Unless you are in his inner circle. Hopefully he (and his 3 stooges) will not last another month with the Twins.

One thing you have to consider is that Hendriks has a good 5-8 years head start on those guys People do not realize that Hendriks is only 8 months older than Aaron Hicks. He should not have any problems being in AAA for a bit. At this point I think that both DeVries and Deduno will be better at the MLB level. That said, Hendriks led the Twins starters in K/9 and K/BB and was second in WHIP. But the people who are running the Twins are looking at P/IP as the most importing number out there. That said, Harden is starting to pitch in games next week (EST) and if everything goes well, I expect him in the Twins' rotation late May after a sting with the Miracle. And I hope the Twins are within a few games away at that point (or even better ahead )

Totally makes sense... 1 team in 1 location with 25 players vs. 4+1 (EST)+3 (SS) teams in 6 locations with 200 players or so. Many more opportunities. Add to that the draft and the amateur international FA stuff, and it is overwhelming towards the minor league side of an organization. I am really amazed that there is not more about the minors. Really. It all has to do with access, but that has been mitigated the last few seasons. Not enough to say or blog about the Twins. There is an overkill of coverage by the main media of game recaps and canned team fed news as is. I think that it would be repetitious (and tedious) to rehash those on blogs. This is part of what makes this site so great. You don't see the same story with the same quotes written five times like you see with the beat writers...

Those are more of an art than a science and everything is in the eye of the beholder, but I would probably put DJ Baxendale in here and pretty high. I saw him in ST ridicule the highly touted Cedar Rapids squad struck out 8 of the 9 hitters he faced and had a ground out to first. He continued the domination in the FSL getting this line in his single game there this season: 5.1 IP 2H 0R 1BB 8K . His stuff was totally filthy in the Spring. If he keeps it up (and builds endurance) I see him in New Britain mid season and in the Cities as early as September of 2014. I am really high on the guy right now and I would place him above May, below Meyer and not sure about where re: Gibson (who is getting a tad old btw) and Berrios. The other player who would make my top 20 list is Vargas. He has the most power in the organization and if he turns the corner with the breaking stuff he will be scary. Benson would not be there. He deserves to be there as much as Angel Morales at this point

I don't care for either of those 2 (an ex-Royal and an ex-Sux). But here is what Jayson Stark tweeted earlier: Too much smoke for there not to be fire. Throwing at batters is part of the game and so are the consequences. They both should be suspended as well as others who participated on the brawl.

I liked players with lots of energy and lots of smiles and passion, like Carlos Gomez, Lexi Casilla and Ben Revere. Too bad the manager of the millennium did not like them Also liked intelligent players who could form a sentence, like Kevin Slowey, Craig Breslow and R.A. Dickey. Too bad the manager of the millennium did not like them either.

1) I think that he will move fast because there are just not too many good CFs in the Twins' system right now (same with Polanco btw as far as SSs are concerned) 2) Things might change from now till the summer as far as the draft goes, but at this point, it looks like it might be a high school catcher who might have the highest upside among position players and the Twins would be nuts to pass on that, if he falls in their lap

This is major BS by the manager of the millennium, btw. That field was so bad, that his second baseman fell on his rear end trying to work a double play, so gassing it on the bases was not an option last night. And if Gardy needs to throw someone under the bus for the 3 game series, he can start with Mauer, Morneau and Doumit who all have been hitting like Hicks has been hitting that series (and Mauer has been taking unexplainable hacks) moving to Pelfrey and end up looking in the mirror for keeping Correia in too long. Sick and tired of that guy throwing rookies under the bus. Hicks will be ok. He is pressing. The last thing he needs is for his manager to publicly throw him under the bus. Right now, Hicks is the best defensive Centerfielder in the 4 higher teams in the organization (at least.) You got to have him out there playing, just for that. Not many other options...

Butera

He has some issues (shoulder) and he missed most of Spring Training doing rehab work. He started pitching around the 25th I think, so he is probably about a month away or so from Cedar Rapids. I did not hear of any set backs at this point.

Ummmmm do the math (or search it yourself) : drafted pitchers are making the majors at about the same rate as position players. That's what I called BS (claiming that Ps are less likely to make the majors than position players - matter of fact they are more likely) I kinda still waiting for the definition of an "Ace" (in a quantitative manner, btw)

Whatever I don't get it, but they do it in Spring Training as well and nobody whined My issue with the complaints here is that people are whining about spending $15 for exclusive access to the Twins' players vs for a bud an a hot dog..

Benson allegedly had "tendonitis" in his hurt wrist (from one side of the Twins' mouth); from the other side there were numerous "rumors" "leaked" that he was "unhappy" and "wanted a trade". Herrmann is practically the Twins' third catcher at this point. I do understand your loyalty to the organization, Seth, but check where those 2 guys ranked in your prospect rankings vs: Leadoff - Mr Farris 2nd Mr Boggs 3rd Mr Clement 4th Mr Colabello 5th Mr Dinkelman 6th Mr Sobolewski Come on.... for real Ferris instead of Benson leading off?

Both of those are BS, other than the fact that Pitchers are more likely to suffer career ending injuries in the minors. And the key word here is "average" you got phenom young pitchers and phenom young hitters and some of them develop later.

With Butera on the DL and Hernandez up, they were one short on their active, which is full now with Robertson. Interesting to see what happens when Diamond is activated and someone would need to go down.

to replace Tyler Robertson. Swarzak had 50 pitches the other day in an EST game. No MiLB rehab; methinks might be too early for a broken rib thing, but we shall see.

Do you know what the catcher called?