clutterheart

Holy Cow! Harrison played 3B? What is this 2012?

6 games in and AB Walker has played in only 3 games? Are they platooning Walker or just keeping Rodriguez's hot bat in the lineup?

Dont you think its too early in his career to do a retrospective? Also, 20 dollas? To "meet" a 2nd year player? Ridiculous.

I wish I lived near the FSL circurt. But I will have to wait for them to get called up to AAA. I drive down to Pawtucket and catch some games there

The box score I check every night is Fort Myers. Every gol darn starting pitcher is one to watch!

I don't love Fien, but he is not the problem. The offense is the problem. I agree with moving Park to AAA. Let him work things out there and hopefully Sano at DH would let him relax a bit and focus on his bat. Yesterday Park came up in some big situations and just looked....bad.

One positive is Jorge's performance. I am liking what I see from some emerging pitchers

He played 64 games at E-Town last year. It was odd they didn't pushed him up to CR after 30 games or so. If he did well there, and had a good spring they could've considered having him start at FM. Its fine he is there, but he is old for Low A baseball and his success needs to be put into that context. (Also hie is 22, not 21)

All numbers without context are weird. If you put the SO numbers into the equation it all makes sense.

We knew the bullpen would be shaky and Ryan probably did too. He made a choice that this team was going to out hit its bulpen problems. So....Dozier, Plouffe & Park better step it up! If not, they need to be gone. But its early. Wait until June, see what we got. If its not working, time to fire sale the vets and go to a full on youth movement. What other option is there?

Anyone know if Gordon's doubles were minor leauge "speed doubles" or were they hard hit balls?

two games. TWO games! TWO GAMES!! People....baseball is NOT the NFL. Sheesh

Id like to go with Romero for a breakout candidate bu he is on his first year back after TJ so he will be treated with kid gloves. So I choose Rosario. If all goes right with the kid he will be in the Twins bullpen mix at the end of next season.

Unlike last year, there is no player who you can count on to be effective. Instead its full of question marks Will Palka show his power during games? Will Harrison finally break out? Will Vielma hit the ball out of the infield? Will Eades live up to his draft position? Will Michael stay healthy and can he play anything except for 2B? Can Garver play serviceable catcher? Can Turner hit? Will Goodrum harness his tools? Will Wimmers be effective? Can Chargois, Melotakis & Burdi stay healthy? Is Peterson legit? If the answer is "yes" to 50% of these questions, this team is on its way to another good season and another crop of prospects is about to be clamerouring for playing time with the Twins. If not, the cupboard is about to be pretty bare.

Really interesting pitching staff. This will be a fun group to watch.

Thats a bit disappointing. Agewise its fine to keep them in EST and the rookie leagues - they are both still teenagers . But both are high round draft picks so I was hoping one of them would be ready to be pushed up.

Both Blakenhorn and Cabbage are starting in Extend Spring? And Paul is playing 3B? He only played 3 games at 3rd last year. I wonder what the twins are thinking here. Also this will be Murphy's 3rd full at cedar rapids. He is on his last gasp, is that right?

The Ave age of the pitching staff looks older than last year, but the infield is pretty young. I like that mix. It will be fun to see how this young infield reacts to full season & cold weather baseball!

Maybe my memory is faulty. But I can't think of the last bullpen guy at AAA who became a Twins Bullpen mainstay. Especially a closer.

Ive been a Twins fan far to long to not assume the worst

Duffey had a career year last year. He pitched better than he ever did in College or the Minors. While Berrios has a long track record of success compared to Duffey. Hopefully Duffey does well but in retrospect its strange that the FO didn't plan on Duffey potentially struggling because its not like they didn't know he "only" had 2 pitches.

Come now Seth. Its a defensible decision and there is no need to condemn the FO for having Berrios down in AAA. But its ridiculous to even imply that Nolasco beat out Berrios and deserves to be in the MLB rotation over him. (May too for that matter, but that is a different topic)

Really? If Nolasco is released, that opens a spot on the 40 man for Berrios. I would hope that he is ahead of Duffey.

Their hand wasn't forced. They did it to themselves.

I think for the first year or two he will be more valuable in the field than the plate. Hopefully he starts the year batting ninth and he can focus on playing great defense.