Jeremy Nygaard

I doubt the Twins move Perkins. Which means three more years of Fanatic Jack tweeting about how TR screw it up not dealing him when he had value.

Yeah, me too... his outing in Omaha must have increased his price tag. I'm sure it's tougher to get a read on asking prices with teams being active during the draft.

Hak-ju Lee shredded his knee up early this year, so he's not helping anyone anytime soon

Slegers will be done soon... this evening or tomorrow, most likely.

Eades (and Boras) signed for exactly slot (gasp). Eades has been tweeting about how excited he is to be a professional baseball player (that's ok), once he starts tweeting about how he's not injured/good to go and insurance won't cover his contract that will be problem.

Beresford should be a guy that is strongly considered. Someone that could be a defensive-replacement/pinch-runner could fill the 25th spot on a major-league roster. If you're halfway capable and left-handed, you should probably be added (Albers, Darnell). Polanco and Kepler are no-brainers, based on how highly-rated they are as prospects. I'd add Wimmers. A team could take him and DL him and let him rehab before they have to really make a decision. That time wouldn't count towards the year, but he's a worthwhile arm. Vargas would appear to be a must-add, but really I doubt he'd be taken (and if he is, would stick). He's not going to be a starting 1B. He can't play anywhere else. So he's a switch-hitting DH-like body? Could any team afford to stash him for a year? Much better 1B/OF/DH types go un-added each year. Romero may be added. He's been on (and off) before. I could see someone taking a chance on him, but I doubt he'd stick either.

Oliveros isn't on the 40-man currently. He's already eligible for the Rule 5 draft, so being injured doesn't change that. I'm not sure if he's credited with a year of minor league service time - I'd assume he is - but that would give him enough to be a six-year free-agent.

Try this. I'm not going to update it very often. (It takes way too long to format... and it still isn't pretty with the column widths needing to be different sizes.)

...and the name that is absent from the six-man rotation is Hudson Boyd. My uniformed guess would be this is being done in an effort to limit his innings. He threw only 58 last year and is already at 42.

Ryan Eades has officially signed, per his Twitter account.

Slegers just tweeted he's in the Cities, in the doctor's office. So I'd assume he's taking his physical and signing shortly.

Anybody that says "Elig" has been previously eligible.

Sano signed after the minor league season was over, so he gets an extra year. The guys in purple were guys I thought needed to be added, but I wouldn't necessarily say it still reflects how I feel. I recently took Nate Roberts off the list. Salcedo would be a question mark as well. And some other guys thay have been eligible before would be under consideration as well. Great discussion topic... I'll switch things up based on what people think here.

Carlos. Rodon. (And there is no way the Twins can outsuck the suckiest. Best thing since Strasburg... and he'll be better long-term.) If the Twins were in the mix for #1 on Sept 1, they should absolutely play guys 26-40 as much as possible. But they won't be.

Gonzalez has been declared a free agent. I believe I read this morning one exec saying that buying Key West and offering it to Gonzalez still wouldn't be enough.

Bixler tweeted moments ago that he has officially signed. Not sure what the hold-up was...

They currently have "saved" $55,900. None of the three are going to get all of that chuck. Eades will be the first domino to fall. My opinion, Slegers was drafted higher than he deserved to be, in part, to be able to pay him a little bit more. All three should come in around slot... and that frees the Twins up to offer $150,000 to some prepster who isn't likely to sign.

It sounds like Eades is on his way to the Cities. The Twins weren't concerned about Slegers signability when they drafted him, haven't heard anything to change that.

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The Twins are off today. They're in Miami, trick. But there was plenty going on in the minor leagues with both games and transactions. The transactions are all noted below, but essentially the promotion of Kyle Gibson had a trickle-down effect from AA-AAA (Logan Darnell) to hi-A to AA (Matt Summers) and Byron Buxton filling the Miracle roster spot. Esmerling Vasquez was released from the Red Wings' disabled list. (Noteworthy mostly because it got me my first mention on MLB Trade Rumors.) ROCHESTER RED WINGS 2, LOUISVILLE BATS 4 Box Score So after clawing and scratching and kicking their way back to .500, the Red Wings lose tonight and drop one game below the mark. The offense only mustered eight hits, including an Antoan Richardson double. Jeff Clement drove in both runs with a 2nd-inning single. Liam Hendriks struck out five in six innings. He allowed ten hits and four runs (three earned). Shairon Martis pitched two scoreless innings. Chris Herrmann started the game behind the plate and was replaced by Drew Butera for no good (known) reason. It may be nothing. It may be injury. It may foreshadow a move being made by the parent club. Speculate amongst yourselves. Congrats to Vance Worley, who was named International League Pitcher of the Week. Filling Kyle Gibson's roster spot will be LP Logan Darnell, who has spent a long time in New Britain. Darnell was recently named the Eastern League's Pitcher of the Week. NEW BRITAIN ROCKCATS 6, ALTOONA CURVE 4 Box Score (game 1) On the strength of one crooked inning - a six-run second inning - the RockCats were able to win the first game of today's doubleheader. The highlight of that inning was a three-RBI triple by 2B Eddie Rosario. Rosario added a single to go 2-for-3 and entered game two with a .279 batting average. Miguel Sano went 0-for-3 with a strikeout and his 3rd AA error and sits at .158. Also struggling since his promotion, Angel Morales went 0-for-2 and is now batting a Hicksian .086. Nate Hanson has had a fantastic June. He doubled and is now batting .302. Pat Dean recorded two outs in the fifth before he was relieved. He allowed 11 hits and four runs. He didn't walk or strike out anyone. A.J Achter and Edgar Ibarra got the win and save, respectively, going the last 2 1/3 innings, each striking out two. NEW BRITAIN ROCKCATS 0, ALTOONA CURVE 2 Box Score (game 2) Well, the offense in game 2 was brutal. It's probably a good thing it only lasted seven innings. Batting leadoff, Eddie Rosario had a hit and a walk. (He was also picked off of first base... Spanam Style and had an error.) Danny Ortiz had a single. That's it. Miguel Sano was 0-for-2 and grounded into a double-play. Yeah, this baseball thing is hard. There were some that clamored for Sano to get a few at-bats when Plouffe went down. I think you're witnessing the reason why that was never going to happen. Pitching-wise, B.J. Hermsen did okay in a spot start. In three innings, he only gave up a run on four hits and a walk. He struck out one. Daniel Turpen allowed an unearned run in two innings. Cole Johnson pitched a scoreless inning. Matt Summers has been promoted from Fort Myers to take Darnell's spot in the rotation. FORT MYERS MIRACLE 2, PALM BEACH CARDINALS 4 Box Score The Miracle could have used Buxton a day earlier. The offense didn't offer a lot of hope in today's game. Andy Leer (single) and Aderlin Mejia (RBI triple) accounted for half of the team's hits in the two-run third inning. Stephen Wickens drove in the other run on a groudout. Mejia and Wickens added the other two hits. Matt Tomshaw pitched 6.2 innings and allowed three runs. He struck out five while giving up nine hits and two walks. Adrian Salcedo the other 1.1 innings. He gave up a run on two hits, a walk and a hit batter. He struck out two. Byron Buxton will make his much-anticipated high-A debut tomorrow. The Miracle had been on a six-man rotation after the addition of Manuel Soliman, so they will not need to add another pitcher at this time. CEDAR RAPIDS KERNELS - IDLE The Kernels were given the day off. The people of Cedar Rapids were also told to stay home from work today to mourn the loss of the greatest player they've ever welcomed to Veterans Memorial Stadium. There has been no corresponding move made yet, though one possibility is the addition of RP Dallas Gallant. Gallant struck out 14 in 10.2 IP for the Snappers last year before missing the first part of this year while recovering from a nerve relocation procedure. He is currently working out of Elizabethton's bullpen. ELIZABETHTON TWINS 7, GREENEVILLE ASTROS 2 Box Score The defending Appy League champs got their 4th win in their first five games of their young season. Tonight's win can be credited a lot to the left arm of young Randy Rosario. Five shutout, two-hit innings with a walk and three strikeouts. Also impressive is the six groundouts to only three flyouts he accumulated. Rosario has been very good in other short-season leagues to this point and could really show up on the prospect radars with a good showing this season. (Obviously, some of you are high on him... I'm talking on the big scene. He wasn't a Top 30 in BA.) After a strong one-inning debut on Friday, Andre Martinez struggled in his two-inning outing tonight. He allowed two runs, including a home run, and struck out one. Kuo Hua Lo backed up a strong three-inning performance on Friday with three strikeouts over two innings tonight. The bats were also active. They connected a bunch (14 hits) and also missed a bunch (13 strikeouts). Five players - Tanner Vavra, Dereck Rodriguez, Stuart Turner, Romy Jimenez and Bo Altobelli - had two-hit games. Rodriguez had two doubles and drove in two runs to highlight to offense. As you know, Dereck Rodriguez is the son of future Hall-of-Famer Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez. The whole family shown below. (Photo from the Washington Post.) [ATTACH=CONFIG]4539[/ATTACH] The E-Twins will need to improve on their batting with runners in scoring position. They went 3-for-20 tonight... and that's not gonna hack it. GCL TWINS 2, GCL RAYS 5 Box Score Well, it turns out Amaurys Minier is (at least part) human. He struck out three times in four at-bats. He also drew a walk. The lineup as a whole struck out 13 times. Brian Navaretto had a good day at the plate (2-for-4) but a poor day behind it (a passed ball and a throwing error). Jason Kanzler has continued to struggle to hit, but showed off his defensive prowess with an outfield assist. Chad Christensen had two hits and an RBI. Zach Larson drove in the other run. Sam Gibbons struck out three in four innings, allowing an earned and unearned run on three hits. Miguel Gonzalez struck out two and allowed a run on three hits. Both Madison Boer and Bruce Pugh made rehab appearances. Boer struck out three, but allowed two unearned runs. Pugh walked two. Please post questions and/or comments below.

Sorry, yeah... gotta keep my Vasquezes in order.

I would agree with that. Boer should stay in the bullpen long-term. Also, Kyle Davies had an extended outing in EST this morning. He could end up working his way back up the ladder. (He's gotten up to the "Fort Myers" rung.)