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Twins System Recap: Eduardo Tait is killing it so far this week. He had a two homer game and drove in five runs on Tuesday before adding another homer while driving in six on Thursday. He has seven homers in just 13 games so far this month. Fellow catchers Andrew Cossetti and Enrique Jimenez also had big performances this week, Marek Houston continued his hot month, and Alan Roden had a triumphant return to the Saints. View full video

You already forgot what they did at last year's deadline?

Image courtesy of © Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images Yoendrys Gómez has me wondering: Can we have nice things? With the scars of last year’s trade deadline selloff still mending, I’m not ready to get hurt again. That’s why I’m shielding myself from falling for Gómez, a breakout bullpen sensation. Gómez has been brilliant since being plucked from the scrap heap. Perhaps this is outdated logic I’m applying to the current Twins brass, but I believe he’s more likely to be pitching for a contender come August than to be a long-term piece here. If the Twins continue to operate with the same mentality that Derek Falvey and Joe Pohlad did last July, Gómez is as good as gone. Will Jeremy Zoll and Tom Pohlad take a different approach? We’ll see. The thirst for bullpen help at the trade deadline is nearly unquenchable. Twins fans know this as well as anyone. The Twins may end up being among the teams seeking relief help. Thanks to a middling American League, they’re just two games out of a Wild Card spot despite being 35-40 entering Thursday's play. But, as Cody Christie recently wrote, decision time is coming, one way or another. Should the Twins fall further from contention, Gómez will be a commodity. Given his lack of a track record, he wouldn’t be any team’s first choice, but there will be no shortage of suitors if he continues to pitch well. Gómez had been used as a long-,relief mop-up man with the Rays, pitching at least two innings in six of his nine outings. After the Twins acquired him in early May, he worked himself into high leverage in short order. The role looks good on him, and a few minor adjustments are doing wonders. As Matthew Lenz recently pointed out, the Twins have Gómez throwing more sweepers and fewer of his other secondaries. Also, among the many items Aaron Gleeman recently called out in his lengthy profile of Gómez was that he dropped his arm slot (link to article here, subscription required but highly recommended). Gómez has a 1.53 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, and 29.2 K% in 17 2/3 innings as a Twin. In 20 outings, he’s already earned seven saves and five holds. This is exactly the type of guy the Twins desperately needed to find. As if the early returns weren’t exciting enough, the righty is also under team control for ages. Though this is the fourth season in which he's pitched in the majors, he didn't even start the campaign with one full year of official service time. He's likely to become artbitration-eligible as a Super Two guy after 2027, but he still won't hit free agency until the end of 2031 campaign. Relievers are frustratingly fickle, and Gómez embodies that. Still, there’s a real chance he could be a high-leverage reliever for the Twins for another five seasons. On the other hand, he could turn back into a pumpkin at any moment. After all, this guy had pitched so poorly that the Twins were able to acquire him for cash considerations. In the past two seasons, he has been claimed off waivers twice and traded twice. Before joining the Twins, Gómez had 93 1/3 career innings in the big leagues. In that time, he had a 5.11 ERA, 5.60 FIP, 20.2 K% and 10.5 BB%, and had recorded just a pair of saves (one of them being a three-inning save in a 9-2 blowout). In his pre-Twins days, Gómez particularly struggled to keep the ball in the park. From the start of the 2023 season to the point that he joined the Twins, he was among 524 pitchers to log 90+ innings. Among that sample, he had … The fourth-worst Barrel% (12.6%). The 20th-worst HR/9 (1.83). The 24th-worst xERA (5.52). It was easier to envision him being DFAd again by now, rather than him even simply finding his footing. Is this run he’s on sustainable? The one thing we can say for certain is that Gómez will eventually give up another home run. It might not feel like there’s any rush for the Twins to come to a conclusion on Gómez’s future outlook, but that conversation changes once teams start to ask about him. And they will. Maybe things will be different this time around. Jeremy Zoll inherited a mess. Even with Gómez stabilizing the late innings, this bullpen is in disorder. You can’t build a good team around a bullpen, but you also can’t build a good team without one. Zoll and his front office clearly saw something in Gómez. Maybe he’ll want to relish in this victory of an addition and keep him around as a building block of a more functional future bullpen. While he hasn’t done much to back it up, Tom Pohlad has talked a lot about the Twins' intention to win. Since he’s been every bit as penny-pinching as all his relatives before him, the fact that Gómez will be dirt-cheap over the coming several seasons should endear him to Pohlad. This is an affordable potential building block, albeit a minor one. If the payroll is going to continue to be limited, these are the types of players the Twins need to prioritize holding onto. At the end of the day, everyone has a price. It all comes down to value. Perhaps trading Gómez would turn out to be the smart move, but the Twins' bullpen is in dire straits due to a series of previous “smart moves.” If Zoll and Pohlad are content to simply sell off Gómez to the highest bidder, it’ll be a signal to expect more of the same. But if they aren't, maybe there's something genuinely different happening. View full article

Walker JenkinsKaelen CulpepperEmmanuel RodriguezDasan HillKendry RojasEduardo TaitMarek HoustonRiley QuickCharlee SotoBrandon WinokurHendry MendezGabriel GonzalezRyan GallagherQuentin YoungJames EllwangerKyle DeBargeYasser MercedesBilly AmickAdrian BohorquezKhadim Diaw

Walker JenkinsKaelen CulpepperEmmanuel RodriguezDasan HillKendry RojasEduardo TaitMarek HoustonRiley QuickCharlee SotoBrandon WinokurHendry MendezGabriel GonzalezRyan GallagherQuentin YoungJames EllwangerKyle DeBargeYasser MercedesBilly AmickAdrian BohorquezKhadim Diaw

No, the next Willi Castro is Greggory Masterson.

Twins System Recap: Breakout hitter of 2025 Kyler Fedko has kept rolling this season and is being promoted up to the big leagues to make his Major League debut. It was tough for him to just find playing time with the Saints to open this season, but opportunities opened up and he's taken advantage of them. Today's recap starts with some discussion on Fedko, how long he figures to stick around and why Kaelen Culpepper wasn't promoted. Down on the farm, Walker Jenkins started a rehab assignment, Kala'i Rosario helped break Wichita's losing streak, the Kernels scored 23 runs in a game and the Saints went unbeaten over the weekend thanks to some help from guys called up from A-Ball, including a monster game from Graham Brown in his Triple-A debut. View full video

Twins System Recap: The Saints beat up Justin Verlander in a rehab outing, slugging four homers off the three-time Cy Young Award winner. Aaron Sabato continues to bring the thump for St. Paul, along with Kyler Fedko and Gabriel Gonzalez. Also this week, Khadim Diaw continued his hot streak, and fellow Kernel Riley Quick set career single-game highs in innings and strikeouts. View full video

This has been good stuff on both sides. No need to apologize, imo.

Twins System Recap: Marek Houston and Riley Quick both had big weekends for the Kernels, even with Cedar Rapids being rained out on Sunday. Also, the unlikely bash brother duo of Kyler Fedko and Aaron Sabato continued to slug, Merit Jones stayed rolling for Fort Myers, and Wichita embraced a new identity. View full video

It'd be more about survival than savior. They were 20th in ERA and 23rd in fWAR. I guess garbage doesn't stink as bad as hot garbage. They seem to think it works in the postseason. I get the extra off days change the conversation, but most teams only trust a couple of their guys to even go two times through an order when the games really matter. I'm pretty sure the game has changed some over those 125 years. Thank you! I wouldn't suggest this approach with any team that has a competent staff. The Twins are just nowhere near that right now, so may as well experiment. My favorite player to pull up and marvel at his stats is Mike Marshall. He pitched 106 games in his Cy Young 1974 season! 106!!! That's unthinkable! It seems like the difference is a lot of pitchers back then pitched to the score or pitched to contact. I think I've hear Jack Morris talk about that some in the past. Guys don't do that these days and I think it revolves around how you get to and stay in the big leagues in 2026. You need to turn heads, you need to stick out, all your numbers need to be on point or else you'll get passed up. That and all the imaging they have can identify the tiniest imperfections and prompt a team to put a guy on the IL. There are a bunch of other factors, too, but I would LOVE to see a return to the Marshall/Tekulve class of reliever. The top of the rotation guys and the back of the bullpen guys can remain used the way they traditionally have. This idea would be more about meshing back of the rotation guys and middle relievers into a role where they're covering more innings than your typical relief outing but not as many as a typical start. Basically, there are starters I only really trust to get through a lineup once but there are also relievers I think who could get through a lineup once instead of mostly pitching single innings.

Image courtesy of © Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images The philosophy behind starting pitching usage has dramatically changed over the past few decades, but relief roles are more or less the same. There are starters you hope can at least give you five innings, relievers who go one inning (maybe two once in a blue moon) and basically nothing in between. The 2026 Twins should explore that area in between. A Near Change of Course Once upon a time, it appeared the Twins were going to start to break free from the restraints of the modern pitching staff. Back in November of 2021, former Twins GM Thad Levine said this: “I think with the challenge comes opportunity. We’re going to be as creative as we can be in terms of not being necessarily hemmed into the notion of it has to look exactly the way it has always looked. We may end up looking at this from the lens of how many multi-inning guys can we add to a staff and how far does that take us?” Nick Nelson reacted to that news here at Twins Daily at the time, and some goofball named Tom’s his thoughts in the comments: “Some team is going to do it eventually. Once one finds a way to get it right, I think it won't be long before this is just normal … There's been a lot of exploration in the big leagues the past decade but it's still pretty paint-by-numbers when it comes to bullpen/reliever usage.” So What Happened? The situation changed from winter, when Levine made those comments, to spring. The Twins bullpen stunk in 2021 and they were coming off an 89-loss season. It was easy for the Twins front office to see a tough road ahead. Then Jhoan Duran returned from missing most of the 2021 season, converted into a bullpen role during spring and completely dominated (salute to the 2022 Sire of Fort Myers). Griffin Jax, who was mostly an afterthought after failing as a starter, also blossomed in a relief role. Those two breakouts and an unexpected 30-21 record through May caused the course to change and the Twins to stick with a conventional approach to the pitching staff. The rotation influenced that decision, as well, with the addition of Sonny Gray and emergence of Joe Ryan. At the time, it was the right call … But What About Now? Thad Levine is long gone but the org should revisit this idea. A glass half-full view of the 2026 Twins is that they’re only two games out of a playoff spot and shouldn’t jeopardize any chance they have by experimenting. A glass half-empty view is that the Twins still have four teams between them and a Wild Card spot, and this pitching staff is currently a hot mess express. To their credit, the Twins have already started tinkering with the recipe they opened the season with. Matt Wallner and Royce Lewis were demoted. Brooks Lee has moved off shortstop. Kody Clemens is … playing some center field!?!?!? Things have also changed on the pitching side, but that’s due to need more than anything. This bullpen was always going to be an adventure, but the rotation being decimated by injury has really fudged the overall pitching formula. Navigating this current pitching staff through games may be the most challenging task any manager across baseball faces. Derek Shelton needs an Option C beyond just starting pitchers and primarily single-inning relievers. Enter the Swarzak I’d like to introduce a new stat I’m naming after former Twins great Anthony Swarzak. The elements of a Swarzak: 1) A relief appearance. 2) Of more than two innings (seven or more outs). 3) On fewer than four-days rest. I took to Baseball-Reference’s Stathead search to get some info on how often these outings occur. Through May of this year, there were 127 Swarzaks across the majors, six for the Twins. Meanwhile, Nationals reliever Brad Lord has seven Swarzaks alone. Over the past five seasons, the Twins have totaled 39 Swarzaks. The Giants had 32 of them just in the 2022 season, which is the single season high in that sample. That Giants team had only two pitchers make 20+ starts. It’s easy to envision that also being the case for this 2026 Twins team. Let’s Take a Moment to Remember Some Guys In the Target Field era (since 2010), Anthony Swarzak leads not only all Twins in this metric dedicated to him, but all of baseball. Swarzak had 39 Swarzaks and the second-place Swarzaker had 30 (T.J. McFarland ). Swarzak’s single-season high was 12, which he accomplished twice and is one off from the single-season record from this period. The Minnesota Twins all-time (since 1961) leader in Swarzaks is Bill Campbell with 62 and nobody else even has 50. The other guys with 40+ are Senor Smoke Juan Berenguer with 48, Tom Burgmeier with 46 and Mike Trombley with 45. Campbell also holds the single-season Twins record with 29 Swarzaks in 1976. I was shocked it wasn’t Mike Marshall, who had “only” 16 Swarzaks for the 1979 Twins. So, there’s a good case this stat should be called a Cambell instead, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it. Challenges of Building a Bullpen with Multiple Swarzaks 1. Leverage. If you use one of your arms in a Swarzak, he’s not going to be available for a few games. Having a paint-by-numbers bullpen makes things incredibly simple for a manager. Trying to play jazz with it is sketchy and creates opportunities for second-guessing. For me, this concern blows up any notion of completely eliminating roles or general usage expectations. I think a bullpen still needs at least four arms reserved for higher-leverage work and almost exclusively throw single innings. That way, you have those guys ready to deploy when you need them the most. 2. Adoption and implementation. This one is a distant second, but everybody would need to be on board. The front office, manager/coaching staff and players would need to be on the same page about this approach. For some guys, disrupting the rhythm and predictability of their current role is not going to go over well, at least at first. 3. Deviation is dangerous. If this strategy is implemented and fails, everyone is eventually getting fired. There’s a reason why nobody has really given this strategy a try, and I don’t think it’s because teams have universally determined it’s not going to work. So Where Does That Leave Us? I still feel strongly that a team is eventually going to build a staff with a bunch of Swarzaks and become trendsetters. It just might not work out the first time it’s attempted. Don’t expect this revolution to come from a contending or high-payroll team. This is going to come from a forward-thinking team with a zig when everyone else is zagging mentality. It’s easy to think of the Tampa Bay Rays in that regard, and they have produced a number of Swarzak-type guys. But why not us? Jeremy Zoll isn’t even supposed to be at this stage of his career. As a guy not even in his 40s yet, he figures to have a long career in baseball ahead of him even if things eventually turn sour here. Derek Shelton might be on his last legs as a manager, and he’s painted into a corner with this current pitching staff. Why not experiment? What’s there to lose right now? Joe Ryan, Taj Bradley and Zebby Matthews figure to be good sources of innings, but we’re already seeing Connor Prielipp struggle to hold up to the demands of pitching on a Major League starter’s schedule. Mick Abel is working his way back, but they’ll want to handle him carefully. The same can be said about Bailey Ober, Kendry Rojas and David Festa whenever they return from the IL. The Twins Are Already Experimenting John Klein and Mike Paredes are among the faces of a new strategy the Twins have been tinkering with down on the farm. A few pitchers are regularly throwing four innings (or at least that’s the intention) every four days. These are still primarily starting pitchers, allowing for them to work on a schedule as if they were in a traditional rotation rather than an unstructured mop-up type role. This approach has well-positioned those arms to become Swarzaks. It’s starting to appear that Marco Raya, C.J. Culpepper and Alejandro Hidalgo may start ramping up in similar roles with the Saints, as well. But What Would This New Pitching Staff Look Like? If we map things out as the active roster is currently constructed, it’s not going to look all that appealing, to be honest There’s just no way of getting around the reality of the situation. This pitching staff is in trouble, and there is no magic wand. Let’s do it anyway. Here’s how things would look with the current active roster. Traditional starters throwing every fifth game: Joe Ryan, Taj Bradley, Zebby Matthews Starting every sixth game to lighten his load: Connor Prielipp Swarzaks: Andrew Morris, Travis Adams, Mike Paredes, Cody Laweryson Traditional single-inning high-leverage relievers: Yoendrys Gómez, Anthony Banda, Taylor Rogers, Eric Orze, Justin Lawrence, If this strategy were to be implemented, it would probably be wise to drop Justin Lawrence and replace him with another Swarzak-type guy like John Klein, Marco Raya or even the recently acquired Austin Voth. Again, it’s not the prettiest picture, but it’s a way to navigate through a chunk of your schedule when you only have 3 3/4 starting pitchers. Even when some of these guys on the IL return from injury, it’s not as if they’ll be able to provide much length for a while. A fully staffed version of this plan may have Kendry Rojas and David Festa as Swarzaks. Maybe even Bailey Ober would be in that role. Cole Sands would join the high-leverage group and Mick Abel could be on a similar schedule as Prielipp, at least when he first gets back. Conclusion I’m sure most everyone is going to hate this idea, and I get it. It’s fun watching aces pitch deep into games on a regular basis. Those guys are increasingly difficult to find. Rob Manfred would also hate this idea. Aces are marketable. He’s floated out the possibility of implementing rules that would incentivize teams to leave their starters in longer. In the past, MLB had the Atlantic League test out teams losing their DH if their starter didn’t go at least five innings. The Player’s Association would probably hate this idea, too. A lot of the earnings structure for pitchers revolves around starting or throwing innings. This might suppress pitcher salaries to some degree. Heck, I’m sure several of the players and coaches would hate this. Regardless, in the context of the 2026 Minnesota Twins, I think it’s a worthwhile experiment. Long live Anthony Swarzak. View full article

Twins System Recap: The early part of this week was highlighted by some impressive displays of power from Royce Lewis and Matt Wallner on the Saints. Fort Myers continued to get excellent work from their arms out of the 2025 draft class, including Merit Jones, Jason Reitz, Matthew Dalquist, and Justin Mitrovich. Also, Eduardo Tait put me in my place with his big game on Thursday. Info on those performances and more in tonight's recap. View full video

Twins System Recap: A couple of Saints starting pitchers had impressive performances this week. Mike Paredes kept it rolling with five quality innings on the back of his dominant sweeper. Ryan Gallagher topped out at 97 mph while firing five shutout innings. On the hitting side, the big stars were Hendry Mendez, Yasser Mercedes, and 19-year-old Merphy Hernandez. View full video

Image courtesy of Rob Thompson, St. Paul Saints (photo of Hendry Mendez) TRANSACTIONS IF Harry Genth was assigned to Cedar Rapids from Wichita. OF Kala’i Rosario was activated off Wichita’s injured list. OF Graham Brown was signed as a free agent and joined Fort Myers. He had been playing for the Washington Wild Things of the independent Frontier League. C Ian Daugherty was placed on the developmental list. SAINTS SENTINEL St. Paul 6, Louisville 4 Box Score SP: John Klein (3 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 3 BB, 5 K) HR: Kaelen Culpepper (11) Multi-hit games: Hendry Mendez (4-for-4, BB, 2 2B), Matt Wallner (2-for-5, 2 2B) The Saints lineup steadily piled up runs, tacking on a pair in the first, third and sixth innings. Hendry Mendez was a menace. He went 4-for-4 with a walk and a pair of doubles. All four of his batted balls were hard hit, registering exit velos of 104.2 mph, 103.7 mph, 100.6 mph and 95.7 mph. In 17 games with St. Paul, Mendez is hitting .400/.513/.600 (1.113 OPS). He also has more walks (18.8 BB%) than strikeouts (12.5 K%) so far is his first taste of Triple A. The Saints lineup combined to record 11 batted balls hit in excess of 100 mph. Matt Wallner led the way with both of his doubles clocked at 109.1 mph. Wallner and catcher Richardo Olivar had two RBIs each. Kaelen Culpepper led off the game by hitting a low 82 mph curveball out for his 11th home run of the season. He’s hitting .266/.392/.557 (.949 OPS) so far in May. John Klein had a rocky first inning that featured two hits, two walks, a stolen base and a run-scoring wild pitch. After surrendering two runs in that first frame, Klein retired six of the next seven batters he faced. He topped out at 95.8 mph and got 10 swinging strikes on his 60 total pitches. The only two runs the bullpen surrendered were unearned. Grant Hartwig and Cody Laweryson provided an inning each before both Marco Raya and Raul Brito went two frames. Royce Lewis was 0-for-4, was hit by a pitch and drove in a run. WIND SURGE WISDOM Springfield 8, Wichita 5 Box Score SP: Eli Jones (2 2/3 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 2 K HR: None Multi-hit games: Kyle DeBarge (2-for-5, 2 2B), Jaime Ferrer (2-for-4, 3B, BB) Since this game was delayed and the first pitch wasn’t thrown until after 8 p.m. CT, you just knew the final innings were destined to drag on. Seven of the game’s 13 runs were scored in the final inning and a half. The final out was recorded at 11 p.m. Wichita starter Eli Jones gave up a lot of traffic and surrendered a pair of runs before exiting with an injury in the bottom of the third inning. The Wind Surge could never climb out of that hole. Not only did Kyle DeBarge and Jaime Ferrer carry the offense, but the rest of the lineup struggled to just make contact, going 2-for-21 with 13 strikeouts. KERNELS NUGGETS Cedar Rapids 9, Quand Cities 8 Box Score SP: Michael Ross (3 1/3 IP, 12 H, 8 R, 7 ER, 1 BB, 1 K) HR: Yasser Mercedes (2) Multi-hit games: Yasser Mercedes (2-for-4, HR, BB), Eduardo Tait (2-for-4, 2B, BB), Khadim Diaw (2-for-4, 2B, BB) What a comeback! The Kernels entered the bottom of the ninth inning trailing 8-5. Brandon Winokur provided the spark, leading things off with a walk and then stealing second base. Eduardo Tait capped an eight-pitch at bat by hitting a double into the gap to plate Winokur. Back-to-back singles followed from Khadim Diaw and Yasser Mercedes that brought Tait around to score, putting Cedar Rapids within a run of tying the game. Mercedes stole second to put two runners in scoring position, but Quinn McDaniel went down swinging for the first out of the inning. Next, Jacob McCombs was intentionally walked to load the bases. Rayne Doncon managed to foul off two two-strike pitches in an eight-pitch battle that resulted in him drawing a bases-loaded walk to score the game-tying run. Jay Thomason came up with the opportunity to play the hero, and he was perfect for the role. Thomason chased a pitch away that was nearly in the opposite batter’s box but was able to get a bat on it. He swatted the pitch the other way, sending a soft liner through the drawn in infield to deliver a walk-off win. MUSSEL MATTERS Jupiter 9, Fort Myers 7 Box Score SP: Ramiro Villanueva (3 2/3 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 3 K) HR: Luis Fragoza (2) Multi-hit games: Dameury Pena (2-for-5) The Mussels led 7-3 heading into the seventh inning, but the Hammerheads, well, kept hammering ... ahead. Things really unraveled in the top of the ninth for Fort Myers, as some poor defense contributed to what ended up being a three-run inning. Starter Ramiro Villanueva tallied another solid start. Over 3 2/3 innings, the 20-year-old surrendered one run on two hits. He did walk three batters, though. Villanueva struck out three batters, got eight swinging strikes and topped out at 96 mph. He has a 2.66 ERA through 20 1/3 innings but his 16 walks are cause for some concern. Matthew Dalquist had been among the many pitching bright spots for Fort Myers, but he was rocked for five runs (four earned) while only recording four outs. Luis Fragoza, a 19-year-old playing in his fifth game with the Mussels, hit a two-run homer. He was in center field tonight and has played all three outfield positions in addition to first base in his handful of games with Fort Myers. Enrique Jimenez had a pesky day at the plate. He went 1-for-1 with a two-run double and three walks. One of his free passes was thanks to a successful check swing challenge, which is something that’s being tested in some of the lower levels. Unfortunately, Jimenez also exited this game early. In that messy ninth inning, there was a play at the plate that put Jimenez in a tough position to both catch the throw and apply the tag at the same time. Though he couldn’t corral the throw, he managed to get through that unscathed. He actually appeared to suffer the injury retrieving the ball. He took an awkward step and came up limping. COMPLEX CHRONICLES FCL Twins 1, FCL Orioles 0 (8 innings) Box Score SP: Cristian Hernandez (5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 1 K) HR: None Multi-hit games: Miguel Caraballo (2-for-2, BB) The Baby Twins finally broke through in the top of the eighth (which is an extra inning in the FCL) when Yovanny Duran drove in Jose Barrios on a single. That’s right, Duran driving in Barrios. It’s like we’re in the year 2057 in an OOTP simulation or something. Pitching was the standout in this one, with Cristian Hernandez delivering five shutout frames of two-hit ball. Geremy Villoria, who was acquired alongside Hendry Mendez in the Harrison Bader trade, followed with a perfect inning. Villoria, 17, has now logged 5 2/3 scoreless innings to start his season. Carter Holjes held off the O’s in both the seventh and eighth innings TWINS DAILY MINOR LEAGUE PLAYERS OF THE DAY Pitcher of the Day: Cristian Hernandez, FCL Twins (5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 1 K) Hitter of the Day: Hendry Mendez, St. Paul (4-for-4, BB, 2 2B) PROSPECT SUMMARY Check out the Prospect Tracker for more. 2. Kaelen Culpepper (St. Paul) 1-for-4, HR, BB, 2 R, RBI, K 5. Eduardo Tait (Cedar Rapids) 2-for-4, 2B, BB, 2 R, RBI, K and threw out one of three attempted base stealers 7. Marek Houston (Cedar Rapids) 0-for-4, BB 10. Gabriel Gonzalez (St. Paul) 1-for-4, 2B, R 12. Andrew Morris (Twins) 2/3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K 13. Hendry Mendez (St. Paul) 4-for-4, 2B, BB, 2 R, CS 14. Quentin Young (Fort Myers) 0-for-2, 2 BB, 2 K 15. Brandon Winokur (Cedar Rapids) 1-for-3, 2B, BB, HBP, SB, 3 R 19. Khadim Diaw (Cedar Rapids) 2-for-4, 2B, BB, R, RBI 20. Kyle DeBarge (Wichita) 2-for-5, 2 2B, R, RBI TOMORROW’S PROBABLE STARTERS St. Paul: Mike Paredes Wichita: Off Cedar Rapids: Jason Doktorczyk Fort Myers: Merit Jones CURRENT W-L RECORDS Minnesota Twins: 27-28 St. Paul Saints: 26-25 Wichita Wind Surge: 21-25 Cedar Rapids Kernels: 24-22 Fort Myers Mighty Mussels: 24-22 FCL Twins: 10-8 DSL Twins: (season begins Monday, June 1) View full article

And part of the point I'm making is he needs to let that timing stuff go. Lots of guys play unfamiliar positions in season. He needs to be open minded, not rigid about when a change can/should happen.