The Minnesota Twins announced this afternoon that pitchers Scott Diamond and Anthony Swarzak will begin the season on the 15-day DL.

Edit: Throw Deduno in the mix and perhaps Corriea could come down with bilateral hangnail or something, also.

 

I don't know how Pelfrey pitched last night, but he too could be dl'd the way Hendriks and DeVries are pitching.

Edited March 22, 201313 yr by Halsey Hall

Pelfrey: It did not go...terrifically. In 5 innings, he allowed 3 runs on 7 hits.

My hunch is that and the end of April, beggining ofMay Pelfrey is either rehabbing or in AAA (a la Liriano in his first year after TJ), and we have DeVries, Hendricks and Deduno up. Worley is not doing great either, and Correia, well you know.

Pelfrey: It did not go...terrifically. In 5 innings, he allowed 3 runs on 7 hits.

 

At least he went 5 innings, which seems more than most of the Twins starters have done in ST so far.

My hunch is that and the end of April, beggining ofMay Pelfrey is either rehabbing or in AAA (a la Liriano in his first year after TJ), and we have DeVries, Hendricks and Deduno up. Worley is not doing great either, and Correia, well you know.

 

I want to preface what I'm about to say by noting that its not meant to be a rip on Pelfrey.

 

I hope they are not seriously considering bringing him north if he's not ready, physically, (I'm not down there seeing what they see, so maybe he is?) just to try to win an extra game or two early in the season.

I just dont think he's ready to go, and it could be pretty ugly if he comes north throwing the same stuff he's throwing right now.

At least he went 5 innings, which seems more than most of the Twins starters have done in ST so far.

 

And at a higher "acceptable standard" set for Correia of 4-5 runs per 5-6 innings, so there's that! (oh wait, this was in a B game...)

I want to preface what I'm about to say by noting that its not meant to be a rip on Pelfrey.

 

I hope they are not seriously considering bringing him north if he's not ready, physically, (I'm not down there seeing what they see, so maybe he is?) just to try to win an extra game or two early in the season.

I just dont think he's ready to go, and it could be pretty ugly if he comes north throwing the same stuff he's throwing right now.

 

Pelfrey seems like a good guy and a real gamer, but it's becoming hard to see who was fooling themselves more in beating the statistical reality of the comeback timetable from TJ surgery- Pelfrey?- or the Twins FO?

Pelfrey seems like a good guy and a real gamer, but it's becoming hard to see who was fooling themselves more in beating the statistical reality of the comeback timetable from TJ surgery- Pelfrey?- or the Twins FO?

Probably both.