Current bullpen is overworked.

Prospects and arm tryouts are wonderful, if nmot competing for a division title.

And bullpen arms need to be able to also pitch consecutive days.

And one of the arms should only be that mop-up guy who can go long in blowout games.

The St.Paul shuttle hasn't been working out very well so far. Its time to go outside the organization looking for help. There was an article quite a while back that talked about how many of our "great" prospects were going to be at risk nest year in the rule 5 draft. Lets get pro-active and decide who to keep and start trading others for bullpen arms NOW! If we wait much longer we will be chasing the rest of the season and IMO this team wont do well as a chase team.

I am intrigued by Evan Sisk putting up good numbers at AA and am perplexed that he hasn't been bumped to AAA before now, in preference say to Strotman who might benefit from AA tutelage (or might be a lost cause).  At this point I'd roll the dice and jump Sisk up to the majors the next time they decide to open a 40-man spot - which IMO could and should be soon.

He's the only one that I feel that way about, though.  The Vaunted Pitching Pipeline (tm) is not gushing for the major league squad as yet - the past couple of years have dribbled out just enough to replenish a below-average pool of talent, not to sustain a winning roster, to speak nothing of making up for lost time.  What we have at AAA is not blowing away even the AAA batters, and at AA guys like Varland, SWR and Canterino would IMO get their brains beat out if thrown into the major leagues right now.

Completley frustrated with our use of Duran and Pegan as well as the others!!

As they say "pick a lane"!! 

1. Duran should be the undisputed closer... period. ONLY used 1 inning. 

Drives me bonkers ... use up Duran for 2 innings... 1st inning dominant... 2nd inning gets hit same with Pegan. 

Not only that but we hancuff our team by doing that. You burn one or both and they are not at thier best the next outing. 

So... can't use for the next day.. How about use Pegan as primary setup.. Duran as primary closer... move on.. 

PLEASE...PLEASE... this is not rocket science... Metrics .. schmetrics... this is dumb!!

I think Rocco has proven to me he can't handle a pitching staff(If he is really making these decisions).  I think he is a puppet for the FO.

Bullpen troubles were somewhat predictable this year with the limited FA additions this year and trading best reliever. I see a couple of  trends; Twins too confident can piece together a bullpen with roster castoffs and low priced FAs- thinking they can make a few adjustments and poor performing pitcher will become effective again. Injuries and limited success of pitchers coming up- Alcala's injury really hurts, sure he was in plans to share high leverage innings with Duran/Pagan. Not enough of the pitchers expected to come up from minors and contribute this year have not been able to do that on a consistent basis.

They need to make some moves and the sooner the better.  Lopez has been solid for Baltimore.  Bednar has been great for Pittsburg.  I realize RP's are volatile year to year but those two guys have good arms and stuff and would be two excellent targets.  I'm sure the Twins are talking with teams, but I'm afraid nothing really gets done until the deadline approaches.  

Imagin Kendricks, Talor and Pressly. What could have been.