to see Revere getting so many starts. If Delmon does not perform, could he possibly be gone by the trade deadline and Revere brought up to replace him? It will be interesting to watch the development of this kid.

There are a lot of guys with experience that the Twins will lean towards first. But he’ll be one of the first call-ups. I’m excited to see what he can do.

Like Young…and Punto….will make the major league roster no matter what. They are being paid big bucks and have to play pretty darn hard to play themselves off the team.

Someone like Slama and Waldrop can shine and give the Twins one tough decision.

They need two relievers in the bullpen. One a lefty who can pitch more than an inning (Duensing or Perkins).

The other is now Neshek or someone else temporarily. Looks like Swarzak went down. Manship is still a possibility (nice to have a long man). One would suppose that Neshek should start April and into May at Ft. Myers (warmth) and then New Brit/Rochester before coming back.

Slama is not on the 40-man. That is a big negative for him, right now. All his contemporaries have gone south (Burnett, Delaney, Van Mil)…so it’s just him, Waldrop, Manship and…do the Twins go north with Neshek.

I’m more surprised Hughes, Plouffe and Valencia were cut this early…except, again, all three had little or no chance of going north with the club, who have to decide between Casilla, Tolbert, Jacque Jones basically for one job. They are taking a long and hard look at Revere, and Brock Peterson is hanging about, too!

I didn’t like the Condrey signing and I wanted guys like Slama and Delaney to be given a shot. Maybe not right away, but eventually. I thought we had enough guys within rather than to sign Condrey. It might be a good thing now that Nathan is hurt, but I definitely didn’t like it at first and still kind of don’t.

Like someone else said, Slama isn’t on the 40 man so that makes it tough. Someone else will have to be kicked off of it for Slama to be added. And you know it’s not going to be a guy who shouldn’t be on it.

great to hear!

I personally think Casilla has the spot in the bag unless he really falls apart. Matt Tolbert still doesn’t have a hit this spring, his defense has been less than stellar on occasion, and he has one option remaining (whereas Casilla doesn’t).

Guys on the 40 man who are still in the big league camp, if they get injured, the player gets big league pay and (maybe) service time. Revere, Toby, Peterson, J. Jones, are not on the 40 so there is no risk to keeping them around.

I did not know that Paul Revere played baseball. Whoda thought?

since Punto can only play one position at one time.

Valencia is not on the major league roster and a day away, thus, the Twins cannot count on having Valencia for the game. Thus, Harris is playing third with Punto at SS and Drew Butera at 2B with only Thome left on the bench.

B) That outfield would be the worst in the majors. At least with Casilla, we have some flexiblity as to wether the Twins slide Casilla into CF or Punto. At least Casilla and Punto have speed and range. Cuddy, Kubel, and Young, in those positions you put above, would amount to about 5 runs given up alone. Factor in the horrible infield defense with having Harris at SS etc…ugh!

C) Why are you so anti-Casilla? Casilla is out of options and still is a valuable player….thus, he makes the team or we package him in a deal.