this is who it should be. He has a good chance to pass through waivers and potentially stay with the Twins. Although if I were him, I’d look at other organizations if given the chance, which I think DFA’ing him would allow.

He’s 4 string here long term. Though he might be 2nd string for a short time at the beginning of the season, which is the monkey wrench in this whole thing.

We can also replace his -replacement level production easily, probably, if worse comes to worse. That said, it probably won’t be him, lol.

is that the Twins don’t have an overload of outfielders, and Young still has more potential than Harris.

My feeling on him is that he can’t seem to play an entire season well. But is fine for about 95 games. Gardy just needs to give him that and split the other games amongst the scrappy puppies.

Somebody will pay him eventually.

Butera is competing with two other catchers for the backup job… and one of those two is injured. Morales is supposed to be ready in mid-March, but if he has any sort of complication with his recovery, releasing Butera means that not only is Ramos the only backup catcher, but there isn’t even another guy available without a 40-man roster move if he or Mauer go on the DL (so you’d have to release someone else anyway).

In a vacuum, releasing Butera is a pretty low-risk move (I doubt he’ll be claimed by anyone), but I’d be just a bit more skittish about it with Morales on the shelf, and knowing how the Twins love their emergency catcher contingencies, they’re probably even more concerned than I am.

I don’t care if he has an option. We might need Butera for April/May if Morales can’t go.

But i do believe he will be picked up. I think we should either go with a 5 man bench and see how everyone does…Have Thome, Punto, Moralas, Pridi, and Alexi. I dont think Neshek will be will be with the team to begin the season anyway.

He has shown that he’s either a good player or he’s horrible. We’ve seen wild fluctuations in the level of play based on his confidence. Even this winter, he was horrible during the season and great i the playoffs. It was all confidence. He’s had three oppotunities in the MLB, and never really established himself because, when he’s bad, he’s so badhe doesn’t belong in the majors. Last year, he started the season with .400 OPS for the first month and found the bench. He had a two-week stretch of good play when Cabrera was building him up.

Oh, as to the game winning hit thing: Several players stepped up in that game, including Tolbert. The fact that he was the last one to step up means nothing in terms of his chances of being a consistent good player in the majors.

Now he doesn’t have a role with this team. Time to move on.

So if Span gets hurt, who plays center?

That’s just deferring the problem, and taking a real risk that someone will claim him at the same time. I don’t know how many times I have to write this, but the Twins go into camp with two healthy backup catcher candidates. They cannot afford to go down to one healthy back-up catcher candidate because, if one of their two healthy catchers go down, they must scramble to sign somebody. Catcher is one position where you need a lot of depth. And they have less depth than they have had in years, with Morales going down. Last year, they had all these guys plus Redmond in camp.

Trade? Maybe. Cut? No.