Eight wins in May, twelve so far in June.
Monthly Archives: June 2011
2011 Game 68 Recap: Residents of Petco – 5, Residents of Petco North – 6
Mauer's back, Valencia hit one a country mile, and our bullpen is nice enough to pad Capps' stats.
It's late and I've been drinking and playing cribbage, so that is all.
2011 Game 68: San Diego Padres at Minnesota Twins
Clayton Richard vs Brian Duensing
Jake Peavy with White Sox: 3.3 fWAR for $25.067 million, with $21 million more guaranteed.
Clayton Richard with Padres: 2.8 fWAR for $0.746 million.
I hear Peavy did quite well in his last rehab start though.
The Padres rank dead last in runs scored per game. The Twins next stop, the Giants, rank second to last, a smidgen less than the Mariners. Both have good pitching, although it's helped one more than the other.
Playing well over last two weeks: check
Playing a weaker league: check
Time to take back first place move above .500!
This Week in Twins Transactions
Joe Mauer was activated from the disabled list.
Tsuyoshi Nishioka was activated from the disabled list.
Glen Perkins was activated from the disabled list.
Yorman Bazardo was activated from the disabled list by Rochester.
Brian Dinkelman was outrighted to Rochester.
Dusty Hughes was outrighted to Rochester.
Chuck James was optioned to Rochester.
Jeremy Reed was placed on the seven day disabled list by Rochester with a sore back.
Nick Romero was promoted from Ft. Myers to Rochester.
Brian Dozier was placed on the seven day disabled list by New Britain
Nate Hanson was promoted from Ft. Myers to New Britain.
Michael Tarsi was sent from Rochester to New Britain.
Ricky Bowen was activated from the temporarily inactive list by Ft. Myers.
Jamaal Hawkins was promoted from Beloit to Ft. Myers.
Brad Stillings was placed on the seven day disabled list by Ft. Myers.
Adam Bryant was assigned to Beloit, then was assigned to Elizabethton by Minnesota.
Tyler Grimes was assigned to Beloit by Minnesota.
Angel Mata was promoted from the DSL Twins to the GCL Twins.
Aderlin Mejia was promoted from the DSL Twins to the GCL Twins.
The GCL Twins placed the following players on the reserve list: Bart Carter, Derek Christensen, Cesar Ciurcina, Niko Goodrum, Matej Hejma, Joshua Hendricks, Kevin Mention, Justin Parker, Rory Rhodes, Eddy Rosario, Miguel Sano, Kennys Vargas, and JaDamion Williams. They later activated Joshua Hendricks.
The following players were assigned to the GCL Twins: Tim Atherton, Philip Chapman, Nick Cicio, Garrett Jewell, Cole Johnson, Drew Leachman, Marcus Limon, Bobby O’Neill, Tim Shibuya, Marcus Solbach, Matthew Tomshaw, Kyle Wahl, and Stephen Wickens.
The Twins organization has also signed the following players: Steven Evans, Steve Gruver, David Hurlbut, Corey Kimes, Tyler Koelling, and A. J. Petterson.
Where They Stand
Rochester is 25-37, tied for fifth in the IL North, fourteen games behind Lehigh Valley. The Red Wings won their last game and are 4-6 in their last ten games.
New Britain is 34-30, fourth in the EL East, four and a half games behind New Hampshire. The Rock Cats have lost their last two games and are 4-7 in their last ten games.
Ft. Myers is 33-34, second in the FSL South, two games behind St. Lucie. The Miracle won its last game and is 4-6 in its last ten games.
Beloit is 36-31, fourth in the ML West, eight games behind Burlington. The Snappers have won their last three games and are 8-2 in their last ten games.
The DSL Twins are 10-5, tied for first in the B. C. B. C. with the White Sox. The Twins have won their last three and are 6-4 in their last ten games.
The Appalachian League and the Gulf Coast League will begin play next week.
This Week in Ex-Twins
Arizona organization (AAA Reno) places Kevin Mulvey on the seven day disabled list.
Baltimore names Terry Crowley interim bullpen coach.
Boston activates Darnell McDonald from the disabled list.
Detroit assigns Brad Thomas to Toledo (AAA).
Houston organization (AAA Oklahoma City) activates Ryan Rowland-Smith from the temporarily inactive list.
Dodgers organization (AAA Albuquerque) activates Juan Castro, then places him on the seven day disabled list.
Philadelphia designates J. C. Romero for assignment.
San Diego assigns Orlando Hudson to Lake Elsinore (A).
Seattle options Luis Rodriguez to Tacoma (AAA).
Yucatan of the Mexican League signs D’Angelo Jimenez.
He’s still around? Well, not any more: Ronnie Belliard retired from the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (Philadelphia organization).
Game 67 Recap: Twins 1, White Sox 0
This is going to be quicker than a Delmon Young at-bat against Mark Buehrle.
Twins win. Cuddy jacked a donger. Blackburn wriggled for all he was worth (leadoff guy reached in 4 of his 8 innings). Nishioka returned, made some good plays (and a bad one) at SS, didn't hit much (1 for 4), but then no one did (Twins got 4 hits).
Sweeps of Chicago are always welcome.
Minor Details: Games of 6/16
Indianapolis at Rochester. Postponed. Will be made up as part of a doubleheader Saturday.
Altoona 3, New Britain 1 in Altoona. The Curve took a 2-1 lead after one inning. Nate Hanson singled and homered. Bobby Lanigan gave up three runs on nine hits in 7.1 innings, walking none.
Ft. Myers 4, Jupiter 1 in Jupiter. The Miracle scored two in the second to take the lead. Reggie Williams had two singles and a double. Ricky Bowen struck out five in four shutout innings, giving up one hit and two walks. The win went to Matthew Tone, who allowed an unearned run on two hits and three walks in three innings. Jhon Garcia pitched a scoreless ninth to get the save.
Beloit 7, Cedar Rapids 2 in Beloit. The Snappers scored five in the eighth to break a 2-2 tie. Lance Ray had two singles and a double. Wang-wei Lin and Michael Gonzales each singled and doubled. Adrian Salcedo struck out seven in 6.2 innings, giving up two runs on four hits and a walk. Clinton Dempster got the win with 1.1 innings of scoreless relief.
DSL Cubs1 at Twins. Postponed.
Friday Music Day: June 17, 2011
I'm almost done with my summer mix. I've got about 105 minutes and CDs are only 80 minutes long. I might do like one 60 minute disc and one 35 minute disc to cover songs with cursing (like the Weeknd and Shabazz Palaces). Then I won't have to cut so much.
When previewing some of the songs last night, CER asked me about rapping. What is rapping? How is it different from singing? &c. I didn't really know how to explain it: singing without melody but more rhythm, talking with a beat. I figured it'd be easier to show her, so I filtered my iTunes to Hip-hop*, sorted by year. The earliest I have imported is Eric B and Rakim's Paid in Full, and that's all I have for the 80's (somewhere, my Slick Rick is sitting on a shelf, waiting to be imported). So I pulled up the title track and showed her the prototypical rap flow. After that, I skipped forward to Das EFX "They Want EFX", the Pharcyde "Passing Me By", and Cypress Hill "Loco en el Coco"**.
*I'm very diligent about genres in my iTunes. I keep it under a dozen. So, no distinctions between indie rock, classic rock, country rock, lo fi rock, prog rock, punk rock, folk rock, modern rock, etc. Just rock. (Though country rock might end up in country.)
**No need to screen for lyrical content if it's in Spanish.
I'd like to share more with her, maybe with a CD I could burn, or an iPod playlist (she borrows my wife's iPod -- full of P&W and folk-rock -- from time to time). It should all be clean in lyrics and subject (so nothing like the radio edit of "I Want to Get High"). I'm not even sure if what I played was halal enough. You got any suggestions? (It doesn't need to be stuff 20 or more years old like my first few there, newer stuff is just as good, I just don't know any of it by heart enough where I can make it to the skip button about two lines before the cussing, violence, drugs, or sex begins.)
Or, if you've got nothing (Cheaptoy, Rob, Beau), just drop your own random dozen.
June 17, 2011: Ho-Hum
Yet another sweep of the White Sox. Now on to the Padres; the last(?) time the Twins hosted them, I attended a Father's Day game with Skim. Santana was not only outpitched by Peavy, I'm pretty sure Santana got ejected. Plus, some clown two rows in front of me wouldn't leave despite one of his sons screaming for about four innings straight. I'm not using the word "screaming" to color the situation. He was screaming. For four. Innings. Straight.