Friday, March 7th

First off i want to say i was impressed with Francise today for being his first start in 18 months his changup was good and his velocity will pick up and i believe his slider will come around. he gave up 2 hits and 0 runs in 1 and 2/3 innings and threw 40 pitches but its a good start.
Next i want to go through some of the position battles and say who i think is winning so far.
2b Punto vs Harris
neither one is really hitting very good to be honest and both will be on the team this spring punto is hitting .111 while harris is hitting a robust .083 this spring. I know harris is not hitting well now but i think he will be at 2b on opening day.
gomez vs Pridie vs Span
This battle i think is going to go on until the end of spring training because none of them are really taking the bull by the horns and earning the spot one day one guy has a good game and the next nothing and vice versa. so far this spring span is hitting .200, pridie is hitting .308 and gomez is hitting .235. I have actually changed my mind on this im gong with gomez because of the excitement he can bring to the team. Of course he will have his o fors but his defense and speed will put him in cf on opening day
Buscher vs Jones
This is an interesting battle i think Buscher has outplayed Jones but Garrett Jones is out of options and the Twins dont want to lose him so im thinking he will make the team out of spring training especailly with that memorable hr off chamberlian. Buscher has had a good spring so far hitting .375 to Jones' .182 but on opening day i think garrett jones will be there.
5th starter job
Kevin Slowey i think is still a favorite to get the job but he is not producing this spring with a 14.71 era and if he doesnt pick it up he wont make it but there is still time. The guys that have been making up ground are Nick Blackburn and Philip Humber along with Glen Perkins.
humber 0 runs in 4 innings after a bad game vs concordia and blackburn 0 runs in 3 innings when its all said an done i think Philip Humber is going to be the 5th starter with Nick Blackburn making the team in the bullpen.
its really early but those are some of the early results this spring see if they change.

Friday, March 7th

Top 50 prospects

im going to do a top 50 prospects with a few small tweaks and if they have 130 ab's or 50 innings they are out.
1.Deolis Guerra
2.Carlos Gomez
3.Tyler Robertson
4.Kevin Mulvey
5.Anthony Swarzak
6.Ben Revere
7.Jeff Manship
8.Trevor Plouffe
9.Philip Humber
10.Joe Benson
11.Glen Perkins
12.Brian Duensing
13.Chris Parmalee
14.Danny Valencia
15.Oswaldo Sosa
16.Nick Blackburn
17.Jason Pridie
18.Jay Rainville
19.Alex Burnett
20.Erik Lis
21.Wilson Ramos
22.Deibinson Romero
23.David Bromberg
24.Brock Peterson
25.Mike Mccardel
26.David Winfree
27.Ryan Mullins
28.Yohan Pino
29.Dustin Martin
30.Kyle Waldrop
31.Denard Span
32.Danny Rams
33.Juan Portes
34.Brian Dinkelman
35.Rene Tosoni
36.Brandon Roberts
37.Ozzie Lewis
38.Angel Morales
39.Matt Tolbert
40.Matt Macri
41.Micheal Tarsi
42.Dan Berlind
43.Jose Mijares
44.Cole Devries
45.Jose Morales
46.Brian Buscher
47.Drew Butera
48.Matt Moses
49.Zack Ward
50.Brad Tippett
heres my list everyone let me know what you think