All-Star Monday Breakfast and Baseball: Futures Game, Mauer's shoulder, and more
by Jon Marthaler on Jul 12, 2010 8:01 AM EDT
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It's Monday of the All-Star Game! If you can tolerate the boredom-fest that the Home Run Derby has become, that's tonight; otherwise, here's your news for the day.
U.S. overpowers World in Futures Game | MLB.com: News
Our boys did okay. Anthony Slama gave up three hits in an inning but got out of the jam without allowing a run. His inning (the eighth): single, 1-6-3 double play, single, single, strikeout swinging. Attaboy, Anthony! Ben Revere was 0-3 (grounder to third, fly to center, grounder to first).
Sticking with Blackburn | StarTribune.com
Joe C.'s vidcast has a bunch of news, including: Nick Blackburn will start next Sunday against the Whiteys, and there's some chance that Kyle Waldrop or Anthony Slama could come up to the big club in exchange for Brian Duensing going down to start stretching himself out as a starter again.
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We'll see what happens
I knew at some point this year some tuff choices would have to be made. Condry,Slama, Waldrop, Burnett, Manship, Neshek. I don’t think all of them can be in Minnesota. Valencia,Punto,Casillia,Hughes,Plouffe,Tolbert, also, Buteria,Ramos,Morales. Plus, is their any chance of Revere,Martin ,Jones, Gibson,Gurra,comming up. Some young guy want their time in Minnesota and I think it’s time some stayed-up.
Slama / Duensing
Would be a good move, IMO. Even though Duensing has been valuable in the bullpen, we need to be looking at alternatives to Blackburn at this point. Especially if we aren’t planning to trade for a starter. We may even consider sending Blackburn down (does he have options remaining?) to get straightened out if he blows up against Chicago on Sunday.
I'm not sure why Duensing needs to go to Rochester?
Let him and Blackburn split some starts and see who desirves the spot. I feel Duensing can go three innings. I start in Roch. wouldn’t make him pitch 6 inning first time back?
He could go three innings.
But major league starters aren’t expected to go three innings. They are expected to go six innings minimum. He’s been in the pen throwing 4-30 pitches/ appearance all season. You can’t just throw him out there at the major league level and expect him to suddenly throw 60 – 100.
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by montanatwinsfan on Jul 12, 2010 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions
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He’s been pitching every couple of days, rather than every five days – if they want him to start, they wouldn’t throw him out there on short rest, so he’d be basically taking up space for five days while he waits for his turn in the rotation at the same time as the guy he replaces in the rotation is unavailable. Better to just send him to Rochester, keep the same size bullpen, and make sure he’s ready to throw full games.
"There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
I see your point
I guess the way to put it is Slama/Waldrop in place of Duensing. I just see Duensing not throwing well at AAA or Blackie having a great game and then the Questions start to fly again. Don’t you think it will take 2 starts for Duensing plus the 4 days rest to come back and start? That’s about 14 days and that puts us to Aug 1st. Oh well, best of luck to Slama/Waldrop.
by b1 on Jul 12, 2010 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, yeah...
But if they don’t stretch him out first, they risk doing damage to his arm. Better to have him two weeks later than not have him at all.
If Blackburn does manage to have a good start while waiting for Duensing to stretch out… then the Twins get a good start out of the deal. I’d guess he’ll have to have two excellent starts to keep his job anyway. If it gets to be an emergency “Get him the hell out of the rotation!” situation, there’s always Manship.
Does anyone in the rotation have options left?
"There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
I could be mistaken
But I’m pretty sure Slama was sporting a Pavano-like stache at the Futures Game.
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. ~ Terence Mann
Mixed Message
“Sticking With Blackburn” strikes me as a bit of a misleading headline. They’re sticking with Blackburn next week, sure, but if they’re looking at stretching out Duensing, that’s not exactly a vote of confidence for Blackie in the long term. I guess it’s a positive for Blackburn that they’re not immediately bringing up Manship to replace him, but I’m guessing that, barring a turnaround, he’s out of the rotation as soon as Duensing is ready.
Also, if Slama is coming up, that means there’s a 40-man roster move approaching, and if Duensing is going down to get stretched out, then that probably saves Mahay’s spot.
"There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
Right.
So who gets bumped from the 40 man roster to make room for Slama?
by z-squad on Jul 12, 2010 10:33 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
condrey?
Could they move him to the 60 day DL, since he just had another setback?
by matswilander on Jul 12, 2010 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions
"Sticking With Blackburn"
Well, its the right thing to say while sending Duensing down to get ready to cover your butt. AND, it could aslo suggest that between Blackburn abd Slowey (while both being on short leashes) the org. is more confident that Blackburn will rebound after the ASB.
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by montanatwinsfan on Jul 12, 2010 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm glad they're going to at least give Dunce a shot.
He deserves it and something needs to be done to shake up the starters.
Apparently the ChiSox are possibly going after Oswalt, despite the fact that he doesn’t want to play there.
The Pavstache will own you.
by fischean on Jul 12, 2010 10:33 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Oops, posted too early.
Anyway, the Twins should at least make an offer for Oswalt (or Haren, I suppose) just in case the Duensing experiment doesn’t work either.
The Pavstache will own you.
by fischean on Jul 12, 2010 10:34 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
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