Twins Claim LHP Adam Wilk From Mets

Well, if you all remember, during Spring Training, I kept saying that Berrios leaving the Twins to go and "pitch" (he warmed the bench) with his island's team in the WBC, while others were busting their rears to win a spot in the Twins' team, was neither the smart choice nor something that I would recommend to a person in his position...

 

But there were a lot of "national pride" and "someone's nation should mean more than his team" (as if PR were a different nation to begin with) replies...

 

Guess Berrios is learning a hard lesson:

If he shows the Twins that making the Twins is not his number 1 priority, the Twins will act like him making the Twins is not his number 1 priority.

 

You got to walk the talk and Berrios did not.  How long will he keep getting punished for it?  I don't know, but if I were Berrios or Berrios's agent, I'd have a meeting with the Twins brass, explain my priorities and apologize for previous bad choices.

 

But I am not Berrios or his agent.

Vargas and Santiago send their regards from the MLB team...

All of those guys are RHPs.

Wilk is a lefty

Then reimpinge Haley's elbow and bring Boshers back up. Or bring up Hurlbut.

So is this one of those message moments? Showing Mejia and Berrios that they will pitch Herb Carneals second cousin in place of them if they don't start to control the FB? I really cannot come up with anything else that would make enough sense to justify one calling himself a MLB GM. While I am not one of those that think these games actually mean anything, as I can't see this team being a season long contender, I still cannot see a plan here. I know the new acquisitions are as expendable as an FBI director but Berrios just is not going to learn anything more from blowing away AAA hitters.

Free Jose!!!!

Alright!  Excellent!  We're on our way!

What a coup!  Now we can keep our delusions about contending this year with a bunch of placeholders on the pitching staff, and don't have to give any of those young arms a chance.  

Whew!

Like everyone else, I'm not sure what the point is with this move.

I could only guess as to what they could be thinking....

I haven't agreed with all the moves, or non moves, by the new FO before ST, during, or so far this season. But I absolutely have a feel for their moves, their direction, and any method to their madness, so to speak. This move, however, just befuddles me!

This just screams someone off the street to start a game and then move to the pen, or AAA, or just be a rent-a-game player. Nothing about it makes any sense at all.

Are they just trying that hard to give Berrios that one or two more starts? I just don't get it!

My fingers are tightly crossed that 2-3 pitching moves will be taking place over the next couple of weeks

He did not play for his National Team. That would had been team USA. Check his passport if you don't believe me And he did not play much. They just sat him on the bench most of the spring

I'm not sure that he would have been able to predict that. Two of the pitchers that started for PR had fewer career MLB innings than Berrios had at the time.

How many of the following are on another major league roster?

Wilk

Breslow

Haley

Presley

Tepesch

So the pitchers at AAA or AA are worse than these guys?

Well, I'm trying to rationalize by thinking that maybe they're playing the service time game with Mr. B.  But by God, if you're thinking about getting those young arms in the rotation for future pennant contention, that time is even earlier than today.

Berrios has nothing to prove by mowing down AAA cats.  If he has to take his lumps and learn how to adjust, how about doing it in a whole year like this one?  Don't even try to pretend we have a chance in even this watered-down Central with the pedestrians we have on the current staff.  I know the injuries have hit the AA studs hard the past couple of years, and delayed their Mlb debuts, but Geez Louise, get them the hell up here soon, and let them get to learning.  Our young hitters are now taking those lumps and learning those lessons, and the pitchers are going to be a year or 2 behind even at this point.

We are not going to the Series this year.  Wilk and Haley and Pressly and Belisle and Breslow and Kintzler, et.al., are not going to carry us there.  If we have to wait til the service time clock is done ticking, so be it.  But I can't stand this placeholder crap, as a fan, for yet another year.  Get those guys up here ASAP, the ones we could or should be counting on, and let them take their medicine and learn their lessons.  

And--- while I'm ranting-- clean out that dugout.  Molly (IMHO) is not going to take this team to the promised land, either.

a. he was jaded

b. he had bad council

 

Does not matter. He chose team PR,USA over the Twins, which is what (apparently) matters.

 

Bad choice and he has to learn from it.

Apparently being the key word. There is nothing that supports your opinion. The fact that the WBC is allowed to continue to exist supports my opinion that MLB and therefore the majority of its owners want MLB players to play in it.

Santiago had already an MLB contract, and please remind me where Vargas spent the last month or so?

A month? He played his first game on April 8th and his last on the 21st for a whopping total of 12. Try two weeks. 

I haven't seen the Twins make an effort to add additional 1B/DH to the 40 man to keep Vargas in AAA. I also didn't hear them say a word about how Santiago needed to get stretched out before making his first start. 

If there is some kind of internal stance against participating in the WBC then it must only apply if your name is Jose Berrios....

I'm pretty late to this discussion. I'm failing to see what the Wilks move has to do with Berrios.

Pretty unexciting; back in the day this would have been fine print Transaction stuff in the newspaper. Rucsinski for Wilks? Wake me when Burdi, et al are ready.

I'm pretty late to this discussion. I'm failing to see what the Wilks move has to do with Berrios.

Pretty unexciting; back in the day this would have been fine print Transaction stuff in the newspaper. Rucsinski for Wilks? Wake me when Burdi, et al are ready.

You're right, the Twins are using Wilk as a reliever, so the Berrios point isn't valid in this topic. 

Why the Twins are using Wilk as a reliever is beyond me...

He made just one start for the Mets this season. He made five starts for the Mets AAA affiliate in Las Vegas where he went 2-3 with a 5.91 ERA.

Wilk is 29 years old. He made eight appearances for the Detroit Tigers between the 2011 and 2012 seasons. He did not pitch again in the big leagues until 2015 when he pitched two innings for the Angels. He spent 2013 in Korea.

His one start for the Mets was an "emergency" start on Sunday when he pitched in place of the suspended Matt Harvey. He gave up six runs (5 earned) on eight hits (including three homers) and a walk in 3.2 innings.

He had something going on?  Had a thing he had to be at?

He's not eligible to return until Monday. And if you think they're going to bring him back after 1-2 starts, well...