Seth Stohs

Sounds about right.

Someone like Profar or Bundy would be at least $75 million, I would guess.

they will promote some more from Rochester and maybe even New Britain. their seasons end after Monday's games. they are just getting a couple of arms up here now because they need them. others will come up on Tuesday.

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]2214[/ATTACH] Here we are. It’s September 1st which has so many meanings to a baseball fan. Rosters can expand. Elizabethton and Beloit will play in their league playoffs. It also means that it is time to report the August players of the month for the Twins farm system. I know it’s a holiday weekend, but that’s no reason not to check out Twins Daily, right? The plan is to post the top relievers today, followed by the top starting pitchers tomorrow and the top hitters on Labor Day. Having looked at the numbers, there were a lot of terrific performances in August. That’s encouraging as you want to see improvement in players throughout the year. With no further ado, here are my choices for the Top 5 Twins Minor League Relief Pitchers in August: -------- Number 5 – Ft. Myers – RHP Ricky Bowen - 8 G, 0.69 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 13.0 IP, 13 H, 4 BB, 14 K The 25-year-old Bowen has been a very consistent performer for the Miracle all year. His ERA pre and post All Star break have both been over three. Number 4 – Ft. Myers – RHP AJ Achter - 6 G, 0.90 ERA, 0.80 WHIP, 10.0 IP, 6 H, 2 BB, 11 K Achter had to wait awhile to get his promotion to the Miracle. However, he has made the move flawlessly. He has terrific control and strikes out more than a batter in the inning out of the bullpen. Number 3 – Ft. Myers – RHP Michael Tonkin - 9 G, 2.38 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 11.1 IP, 10 H, 2 BB, 21 K Tonkin finally got the promotion to Ft. Myers in mid-June, and he has not missed a beat. He continues to show great control and an ability to miss bats. This week, he found out that he would be representing the Twins in the Arizona Fall League. Number 2 – Elizabethton – Josh Burris - 7 G, 1.32 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, 13.2 IP, 7 H, 5 BB, 14 K Burris was the Twins 17th round draft pick in 2012. He signed on the deadline date which means that his debut came this June with the E-Twins. He has been a key component in the team’s bullpen. He is now 7-0 on the short-season. A great athlete, he has a very live arm. Occasionally, he struggles with his control, but he has a very good fastball and a sharp 12-6 curveball that helps him miss a lot of bats. And the Twins Minor League Relief Pitcher of the Month is: Elizabethton – Tyler Duffey - 7 G, 0.00 ERA, 0.33 WHIP, 12.0 IP, 4 H, 0 BB, 18 K Duffey was the Twins 5th round pick this summer out of Rice. This summer, he has been filling a role similar to the one he filled in college, setting up JT Chargois (Twins 3rd round pick). In August, he has been completely dominant, walking none, giving up few hits and striking out a batter and a half per inning. Overall, he has walked two and struckout 29 in his 19 innings. Duffey, like many of the other hard-throwing relievers drafted by the Twins, could move quickly through the Twins system. So what do you think? I’ve listed five relievers here that deserve be recognized for their terrific performances this past month. Who would your choice be? How would you rank these guys? Feel free to include others like Anthony Slama who recorded four saves in his nine appearances. In his 11.1 innings, he gave up ten hits, walked five and struckout 19.

http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?content_id=24360785 Video interview with BJ Hermsen about his athletic past and his career.

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It was another exciting night in the Twins minor league system. Find out how the Elizabethton Twins did in the decisive Game 3 in their Appalachian League semi-final against Danville. How did Kyle Gibson do in his second start for Rochester? Oswaldo Arcia and Aaron Hicks had strong games, but see how Chris Herrmann got to play hero for the New Britain Rock Cats. It was a busy night in the Twins farm system. The Twins game in Kansas City scheduled for Friday night was postponed because of massive rainfall caused by the overland rains for the storm formerly called Tropical Storm and Hurricane Isaac. The teams are scheduled to play two games on Saturday, the first starting at 3:10. It is also possible that rain will again alter the new schedule. The Twins will send Cole De Vries and Liam Hendriks to the mound. Esmerling Vasquez is expected to have his contract selected and start for the Twins on Sunday. PJ Walters is also expected to be taken off of the 60 Day Disabled List. Here is a look at the Twins minor league scores and highlights from Friday: ROCHESTER 5, BUFFALO 8 Kyle Gibson made his second start for the Red Wings. The right-hander gave up three runs on five hits and a walk in 3.2 innings. He struck out five. He increased his workload to 68 pitches. Daniel Turpen came in and walked all four batters that he faced. He was replaced by Luis Perdomo who got a ground out, but an error caused three of the four runs charged to Turpen to be unearned. Perdomo went 2.1 innings without allowing a run. Anthony Slama struckout five in two innings. He gave up one run on two hits and a walk to increase his ERA to 1.32. Deolis Guerra struckout two in his scoreless inning. Michael Holliman went 2-3 with a walk. Brian Dinkelman was 2-4 with a walk. Wilkin Ramirez hit a solo homer in the 9th, his 14th of the season for the Red Wings. NEW BRITAIN 4, NEW HAMPSHIRE 3 The Rock Cats are holding on to some slim odds that they could get the final playoff spot in the Eastern League. In this game, the big names showed up. Andrew Albers started on the mound and gave up two runs on seven hits in six innings. He walked none and struck out six. Aaron Thompson went 1.1 innings, giving up a run on a hit and a walk. He struck out two. David Bromberg went an inning and gave up a hit and two walks but no runs. Bruce Pugh got two outs, and when he left the mound at the end of the top of the 9th, the game was tied at three. The Rock Cats took an early lead. Aaron Hicks doubled to lead off the first. Two batters later, Oswaldo Arcia hit his ninth homer. Two innings later, Hicks singled and stole second before Arcia singled him in. In the bottom of the 9th with two outs, Hicks walked and Chris Herrmann doubled, scoring Hicks with the winning run. Herrmann was 3-5 with his 24th double. Hicks went 2-4 with a walk, his 21st double and his 32nd stolen base. Arcia was 2-4 with hit ninth homer and three RBI. FT. MYERS 1, CHARLOTTE 4 The long Miracle season is coming to an end. Cole Nelson started and gave up four runs (2 earned) on six hits in six innings. He walked three and struckout four. Clinton Dempster came on and gave up no runs despite two hits and two walks in two innings. Michael Tonkin gave up two hits in a scoreless ninth frame. Danny Ortiz went 2-4. Steve Liddle hit his fifth home run. Kyle Knudson went 2-4 with his 10th double. BELOIT 10, WISCONSIN 4 The Snappers fell behind 4-0 after three innings before scoring ten unanswered runs. Jason Wheeler made the start. The lefty gave up three runs on eight hits. In five innings, he walked one and struckout four. Corey Kimes came in and threw two scoreless innings. He gave up two hits, walked two and struck out one. Corey Williams recorded his 17th save. He struckout four in two perfect innings. Down 4-3 going into the 8th inning, an intentional walk to AJ Petterson loaded the bases. Miguel Sano came off of the bench (after missing four straight games with a sprained ankles) and delivered a game-tying sacrifice fly. Ninth-hitter Tyler Grimes came up and drilled a three-run homer that gave the Snappers a 7-4 lead. The Snappers added three more runs in the ninth inning. Jairo Rodriguez went 2-3 with his 11th double. Eddie Rosario and Drew Leachman were each 2-5. Wang-Wei Lin was 1-1 with two walks. Tyler Grimes went 2-4 with a walk, his seventh home run and four RBI. The 7-8-9 hitters in the Snappers lineup (Pettersen, Rodriguez/Sano-PH/Koch, Grimes) combined for nine of the team’s RBI. ELIZABETHTON, DANVILLE Elizabethton and Danville played in Elizabethton. The winner advanced to the Appalachian League championship series against Burlington. The losing team’s season would be over. To find out who won, click here! --- Players of the Day for Friday, August 31, 2012 Hitter of the Day – DJ Hicks [ATTACH=CONFIG]2210[/ATTACH] Pitcher of the Day – Andrew Albers [ATTACH=CONFIG]2211[/ATTACH] --- A Look Ahead – Saturday, September 1, 2012 Schedule Rochester @ Syracuse – TBD New Britain vs New Hampshire – LHP Luke French Ft. Myers vs Charlotte – RHP Miguel Munoz Beloit vs Quad Cties – TBD Elizabethton @ Burlington – RHP Angel Mata GCL Twins – Season Over --- If you have any questions or comments on the Twins minor league system, players, teams, etc., leave them in the Comments and I’ll try to answer them!

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On Friday night, the Elizabethton Twins topped Danville (Braves) by the score of 4-2. In doing so, they advance to the Appalachian League Championship series where they will take on Burlington (Royals). The Best of 3 series begins on Saturday. The E-Twins got going early on Friday. In the first inning, Max Kepler doubled. First baseman DJ Hicks then homered to give the Twins a 2-0 lead. Danville scored one in the top of the third, but the Twins came back in the bottom of the fourth. With Appy League Player of the Year Candido Pimentel at bat, a passed ball scored Travis Harrison. Then in the 5th inning, Hicks doubled and scored on an RBI single by Byron Buxton. With that, the E-Twins had a 4-2 lead, a lead that would hold. Hudson Boyd started for the Twins. He gave up two runs on four hits in 4.1 innings. He walked three and struckout four. Kaleb Merck came on and got the next five outs, three of them on strikeouts. Tyler Duffey struckout four over the next two scoreless innings. He turned the ball over to fellow Rice-alum JT Chargois who gave up two hits, but no runs, in the ninth inning to record the save. Hicks led the way, going 2-3 with a walk, a double and home run. Max Kepler was 2-4 with a double. The E-Twins last won the Appalachian League championship in 2008. They won five championships between 2000 and 2008. [ATTACH=CONFIG]2207[/ATTACH]

I think it's pretty cool. Certainly not the first 'blogger/writer' type to find his way into a big league front office, but always fun to see that kind of thing happen. Parker could be the Twins director of video coordination.

http://www.oneatbat.com/ Just a nice story. It'd be great if it would eventually lead to something. Sometime!

Interesting that the only player promoted from the GCL Twins to Ft. Myers Miracle at the conclusion of the GCL season was Aderlin Mejia. He was terrific and a member of the GCL All Star team, but I thought maybe they'd bring a catcher since Knudson is really it right now. I also thought maybe an arm or two. It will be interesting to see how many players from ETown will move up to Beloit to play with them in the playoffs. I would assume Kepler will. Do you think they'd bring up Berrios for their rotation? How about Duffey and Chargois? Walker?

I like santana... I have had him in the Top 20 the last year, and he'll definitely stay there now. Will be interesting to see if he's added to the 40 man. I think he needs to be. Very solid defensively. Great arm. Very good range. Takes big hacks. hates walking.

Jhon Garcia had Tommy John earlier in the year. Adrian Salcedo is still rehabbing his shoulder, although he had elbow problems first.

Van Mil didn't get above AA with the Twins organization.

Yeah, they always add one coach in September... I wouldn't be surprised if it's Brunansky, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it's Jake Mauer or Ray Smith. I'd love to see the Twins give Ray Smith the bullpen coach job if or when Rick Stelmaszek retired. He's earned it with what he's done in E-Town.

wow! You must have been bored, and i'm not sure what it tells us... but that is very cool!!!

No, signing good minor league free agents aren't going to bring a team from 95+ losses to 85+ wins. they're generally brought in to help the AAA team win more games and just be depth. Finding a minor league free agent to provide as much value as Jared Burton has is incredible. If Deduno pans out and can become a middle of the rotation starter, that would be incredible. TR knows that minor league F/A isn't the way to division titles. he's a very smart guy who keeps things close to the vest. I 100% agree with him that overpaying for anyone is crazy. The Twins will need quality starting pitchers to turn this around. That doesn't mean getting the $20 million guys. They never pan out. I think they need to grab 2-3 $6-8 million starters.