I felt bad when I saw "Don't Give Up on Brad Rudis!" in the headline and had no idea who that was.
After checking the box score and his Baseball Reference page, I don't feel bad about that anymore. After four solid but unspectacular years at Texas A&M, he went undrafted. The Twins apparently signed him and his pro career is now 4 games and 5 innings old.
I guess it would be premature to give up on him at this point, but there is nothing I have seen that leads me to expect big things of him, either. But stranger things have happened, especially with pitchers.