The Minnesota Twins have placed Ryan Doumit on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right calf and will recall outfielder Ben Revere from AAA Rochester, according to the team:

#Twins place Doumit on 15-day DL with right calf strain. Will recall Ben Revere from AAA Rochester prior to tomorrow's game at Detroit.

— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) May 17, 2012

Doumit, 31, was signed by the Twins to a one-year, $3 million deal back in November after seven seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Spending the majority of his time with the Twins as designated hitter, Doumit has also seen time as catcher, right fielder, and at first base. He's hitting .264/.328/.445, close to his career line of .270/.333/.442.

Revere, a 24 year-old center fielder, comes back to the club after hitting .278/.316/.333 in twenty plate appearances over six games earlier this season. He comes back from AAA Rochester, where he's hitting .322/.354/.333.

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Nick Blackburn

#53 / Pitcher / Minnesota Twins

Height: 6-4

Weight: 240

Bats: R

Throws: R

Born: Feb 24, 1982

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	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2012 - Nick Blackburn	1-4	6	6	0	0	0	0	31.1	40	25	25	7	11	17	7.18	1.63

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Rick Porcello

#48 / Pitcher / Detroit Tigers

Height: 6-5

Weight: 200

Bats: R

Throws: R

Born: Dec 27, 1988

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	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2012 - Rick Porcello	3-3	7	7	0	0	0	0	41.2	49	25	24	6	9	24	5.18	1.39

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Still losing? Check.

Let's have some fun today. We had a few contests a while back, such as ranking Twins hurlers by fastball velocity and whatnot, but today, let's take a look at club leaders by fWAR (again, since I write for f) dating back to the first World Series champ club back in 1987.

Remember the rules? If not, let me refresh with the ones I ah, the ones I remember. I reserve the right to add new ones, by the way:

1. No CHEATING. (obviously)
2. No subsequent guesses. If Jesse guesses, he then must wait for another guess before he can enter a second one.
3. Guess must have year AND player.
4. Once guessed, I'll fill in the blanks with the guesser's log-in name.
5. I'll try keep up, but I'm also at my day job.

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If today's Twins game had been televised , you would have seen starting pitcher Jason Marquis give up a double and RBI single in the second inning, and again in the third. You would have seen Marquis pitch a scoreless fourth inning and perhaps have thought the Twins still had a chance to win this game. Then the fifth inning would have rolled around, and you would have seen Marquis give up homeruns to Shin-Soo Choo, Asdrubal Cabrera, and Carlos Santana--the first time a Twins pitcher has given up three homeruns in one inning since 2010.

Luckily, this game was not televised and the vast majority of us did not witness these things. If you are extra lucky, you did not even realize today was a noon game and do not know this game even happened.

Indians ace third starter Derek Lowe mowed down the Twins, pitching his first complete game shutout since August 31, 2005. Lowe surrendered only six hits, three of them coming from last week's call-up Brian Dozier. The Twins did manage to load the bases in the bottom of the seventh--but we all know how that usually ends.

Now the good news: Justin Morneau was activated off the DL today, with Chris Parmelee sent to AAA to make room on the roster. Yay. Be still my heart.

Studs and duds after the jump.

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Jason Marquis

#21 / Pitcher / Minnesota Twins

Height: 6-1

Weight: 210

Bats: L

Throws: R

Born: Aug 21, 1978

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Derek Lowe

#26 / Pitcher / Cleveland Indians

Height: 6-6

Weight: 230

Bats: R

Throws: R

Born: Jun 01, 1973

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Quick show of hands: Who had Scott Diamond as the Twins leader for WAR among pitchers through the season's first six weeks? Easy enough to predict, right?

In what's been a brutal season thus far, Diamond has provided us with at least s fleeting breath of fresh air. Whether or not you're a believer in his ability to maintain success at the Major League level, it looks like the Twins can at the very least break even on the trade they made with the Braves to retain Diamond. That's a lot better than a lot of people thought at the time of the deal.

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Well, that was fun for a minute.

Tonight's game started otut swimmingly enough for Carl Pavano as he started us off with three scoreless innings. The offense even caught a break, as Darin Mastroianni scored on a passed ball. But that would be it until the late innings. Pavano's luck also ran out, as he gave up a ground rule double to Asdrubal Cabrera, which moved Jason Kipnis to third. Kipnis would come around to score on Travis Hafner's ground ball to Mauer, and Cabrera would also score on Carlos Santana's sacrifice fly to left field. In the very next inning, Pavano would give up a double to Jose Lopez, and a home run to Casey Kotchman. At this point, the Indians were up 4-1. And that seemed like it was the game. Until the 8th inning.

It started very innocently. Denard Span walked, and Brian Dozier flew out after battling Indians reliever, Vinnie Pestano for 8 pitches. Up came Mauer, who forced Pestano to use 7 pitches before finally retiring him. Then came the thunder, so to speak. Josh Willingham came up, and promptly doubled home Span, who had stolen second on Mauer's strike out. Manny Acta came out replace Pestano with Nick Hagadone, who threw two balls to Doumit, before delivering a strike. A strike that Ryan Doumit sent 401 feet over the left field wall. We had a tied game!

But, again, in the very next inning, Matt Capps came in, and he gave up a single to Kotchman, who was ran for by Lou Marson. Capps threw a wild pitch to move him to second, and Shin-Soo Choo singled him home. 5-1 would be the final score, as Chris Perez picks up what had to be the easiest save of his career. He threw 12 pitches, and 7 of them were to Jamey Carroll.

Notes: Chris Parmelee looks so lost right now.

Studs and Duds after the jump.

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TV: FS North

Radio: 1500 ESPN TRN

First Pitch: 7:10 PM

Know Thine Enemy: Let's Go Tribe!

Lots of cool things going on prior to tonight’s tilt with the Cleveland Indians. Firstly, Carl Pavano is pitching through pain, as per Mackey. Pavano did have an MRI, which showed no structural damage, which is a good thing.

and perhaps more importantly, Justin Morneau is taking live BP and is apparently destroying everything. Morneau is able to come off the DL on Wednesday, if he will or not has yet to be decided. And in case you didn’t see, Trevor Plouffe shaved off his hair after the Mother’s Day game, to donate. His mother, Diane is a breast cancer survivor. Twins pitchers are also taking BP, and apparently, Rhett Bollinger is impressed with the power of Jason Marquis. I would like to see him DH sometime this year.

Lineups after the jump!

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