Physics Guy

They were talking about Hicks going out on a rehab assignment. Blyleven said something to the effect that the training staff will take great care of him and get him back playing.

Did anybody catch Blyleven singing the praises of the training staff a couple of innings ago? Wow!

Thankfully Ft. Myers doesn't play this weekend (All-Star Break). Otherwise my trip to Cedar Rapids this weekend might not include seeing Buxton play. I have no doubts he will be in Ft. Myers soon after. Can't wait to watch them on Friday night.

Well done once again Seth. I don't know how you find the time to keep up on the minor leagues so well.

Holy raspberry! Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Let me guess, third out is a ground ball to 2B.

Don't you mean ASSbury???

Agree on Revere. Span's numbers look similar to what he put up the two years prior to last. I'm just happy he was better last year and Ryan flipped him for a valuable piece.

I've heard he probably isn't a CF long-term, but his bat plays in the corners also.

You are on a roll.

I'm pretty sure we still couldn't hit his slider.

Nothing like good self-deprecating humor.

I would say the same thing about TK. I really enjoy his ability to be blunt about players and not sugar coat it. If he could just show a little more enthusiasm. He would never take the job full-time, but I enjoy it when he fills in.

Jayson Stark has an article on Home Runs right now: Home runs and HR heroes of 2013 - ESPN I found an interesting tidbit: [h=3]The zero hero team[/h] Most plate appearances this season without a homer: [TABLE] PA HR [TR=class: last] Elvis Andrus 236 0 [/TR] [TR=class: last] Denard Span 220 0 [/TR] [TR=class: last] Placido Polanco 205 0 [/TR] [TR=class: last] Ruben Tejada 204 0 [/TR] [TR=class: last] Ben Revere 176 0 [/TR] [TR=class: last] Gregor Blanco 158 0 [/TR] [/TABLE] Span's OPS: .668 Revere's OPS: .582 Hicks' OPS: .569 With the improvements (albeit slight) Hicks is showing, he may end up passing the other two up yet this year. The Twins are going through obvious growing pains with Hicks, but it's starting to become apparent why they traded Span and Revere.

Keith Law has updated his Mock Draft and has Stewart going #4 to the Twins. The intriguing part is that Gray makes it to #5. Would the Twins really pass up Gray? It seems to me that Stewart might have a slightly higher ceiling, but Gray's floor is significantly higher. Houston Astros take Colin Moran over Mark Appel in second mock draft of 2013 - MLB Draft - ESPN For those that don't have Insider, the top 5 picks are: Hou - Moran ChiC - Appel Col - Bryant MN - Stewart Cle - Gray

Congrats on 10 years, Seth. Here's to many more.

Nice article Nick. I have been pulling for Florimon to somehow provide adequate production at SS and he seems to be doing it. I would be happy with an OPS in the mid-600's out of him for the season if he can continue to limit the errors/mental mistakes. He is just a stop-gap, but at his current production I am happy with that.

I hate to link to something Souhan wrote, but for the most part he is just relaying info rather than posting opinion. Ryan says Gibson close, but not quite ready | StarTribune.com I know many of you don't believe what he says, but he is pretty clearly saying it has nothing to do with Super 2 status. I find it rather humorous that many people were very critical of the Twins for starting Hicks' clock early and now many are complaining that we are doing the opposite with Gibson. Ryan really can't win either way. I guess that's why he is paid the big bucks.

Saw this on Gleeman's Link-o-Rama:

Even if yours is the right one, we will never know. Unless of course you can read Terry Ryan's mind.

Has anybody thought that it might be as simple as Gibson being scheduled to start on Friday and that having him start on Monday might not be ideal. Obviously they aren't going to have him start if he pitches tomorrow. If they were to skip him tomorrow it could mess up his routine, which they probably don't want to do since he is coming off surgery. Call me naive, but sometimes the simple answer is the right one.

Diamond is not doing MUCH worse than expected. He has 4 quality starts out of seven and his numbers are greatly skewed by his last outing. Prior to that he was at 4.08 ERA. Do you expect much better than that? His numbers last year are about his ceiling.

Haven't seen all of the game, but I would concur that this zone is not very consistent. Smalley seems to agree.

Not that I want this, but I sense a DL trip for Trevor. Carroll to 3B and Colabello up?

That looked worse than Morneau's but you just never know.