Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch

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This is the latest update of the Twins' Bench Battle and the Bullpen Battle Dashboards, to track player performance to date this spring. Performances include those in the last game vs the Red Sox earlier this afternoon. You can read the basic premise behind the Bench Battle Dashboard here and behind the Bullpen Battle Dashboard here.

I will be updating them daily and post daily updates. Players who were assigned to the minor league camp were removed from the dashboards but kept in the rankings, denoted by "(MILB)". Also, I have denoted today's cuts the same way as well. One thing I am doing differently from now on (Because if I kept the old way these would be very hard to read and very small) is to not denote performance on a particular day (and use DNP if someone did not play or MILB if they were assigned to the minors) but list them sequentially. An advantage of this way of listing is to see which players played more, which means that the Twins are interested enough to have many looks. As a bonus, because it is getting close to the season and the pitching staff has been somewhat of a concern, I am listing the performances of the pitchers who are "locks" to make the team, but do not include them in the rankings.

Here is what the Bench Battle Dashboard looks like today:

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Here is what the Bullpen Battle Dashboard looks like today:

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Here is the ranking of the position player combatants today (based on position) :

Catchers:

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Rene Rivera 2.5

Drew Butera 1.0

J.R. Towles 0.97

Daniel Rohlfing 0.67 (MILB)

Danny Lehmann 0.28

Chris Herrmann 0.1 (MILB)

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Danny Rams -0.98 (MILB)

Infielders:

Chris Parmelee 3.2

Mike Hollimon 2.5

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Aaron Bates 1.3 (MILB)

Ray Chang 1.3

Luke Hughes 1.3

Sean Burroughs 1.1

Brian Dozier 1.1

Brian Dinkelman 0.89

Tsuyoshi Nishioka 0.84 (MILB)

Pedro Florimon 0.63

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Steve Pearce -0.31 (MILB)

Outfielders:

Joe Benson 2.2

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Wilkin Ramirez 0.43 (MILB)

Matt Carson 0.37

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Darin Mastroianni -0.01 (MILB)

Rene Tosoni -0.07 (MILB)

Oswaldo Arcia -0.33 (MILB)

Here is the ranking of pitcher combatants today:

Matt Maloney 54.6

Liam Hendriks 54.5

P.J. Walters 54.3 (MILB)

Casey Fien 53.6

Jeff Manship 52.5

Samuel Deduno 52.3

Jared Burton 51.7

Carlos Gutierrez 51.3 (MILB)

Luis Perdomo 51.3 (MILB)

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Esmerling Vasquez 51 (MILB)

Daryl Thompson 50.8 (MILB)

Kyle Waldrop 50.8

Lester Oliveros 50.3 (MILB)

Aaron Thompson 50 (MILB)

Tyler Robertson 49.7 (MILB)

Scott Diamond 49 (MILB)

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Jeff Gray 48.3

Brendan Wise 47.8

Phil Dumatrait 46.2

Alex Burnett 45.8

Deolis Guerra 42 (MILB)

Jason Bulger 38.3 (MILB)

Terry Doyle 31.3

As always you can find all Spring Training coverage at The Tenth Inning Stretch here.