14 thoughts on “Cuddyer’s Teammates”

1. these count appearances by the players, not days on the roster, right? Of course, common days on the roster sounds like a lot more work.

   1. Right. Those are games played from March 31 2001-July 5 2011 for all players who shared at least one day on the active roster with Cuddy. So the Pierzynski and David Ortiz numbers, for example do not represent how many games they played while Cuddy was on the roster, as a lot of their games during that span were before Cuddy's 2001 debut.

      Between 2001-Today, there were only 14 Twins who did not share roster time with Cuddy:
      Cuddyer himself,
      Chad Allen (as mentioned above)
      Casey Blake (claimed on waivers the day Cuddy was promoted in 2001, and outrighted well before Cuddy was promoted again in 2002).
      Darnell McDonald (only active during Cuddy's 2007 DL stint)
      James Baldwin (only active during Cuddy's 2003 demotion)
      Jay Canizaro (was not with the team in 2001, last played with the team in May 2002, before Cuddy's July promotion)
      John Barnes (traded before Cuddy's debut)
      Mark Redman (traded before Cuddy's debut)
      Matt Kinney (last played with the team in June 2002, before Cuddy's July promotion)
      Matt Lawton (traded before Cuddy's debut)
      Michael Nakamura (only active during Cuddy's 2003 demotion)
      Mike Trombley (last played with the team in May 2002, before Cuddy's July promotion)
      Quinton McCracken (released before Cuddy's debut)
      Warren Morris (last played with the team in April 2002, before Cuddy's July promotion)

      I put in way too much work to only find Darnell McDonald after 2003.

   2. Yeah, common days on the roster would be a real pain.
      I haven't found any simple place on the internet that tracks roster moves in a regular manner.
      A simple database could make this easier. I imagine something that turns this and this into this:

      Date	Player	From	To	Process
      2001-09-01	Matthew LeCroy	MIN-40 (AAA)	MIN-40 (MLB)	Recall (Sept)
      2001-09-01	Johann Santana	MIN-DL15	MIN-DL60	Transfer
      2001-09-01	Mike Duvall	MIN-00 (AAA)	MIN-40 (AAA)	Purchase
      2001-09-01	Mike Duvall	MIN-40 (AAA)	MIN-40 (MLB)	Promotion (Sept)
      2001-09-04	Tony Fiore	MIN-00 (AAA)	MIN-40 (AAA)	Purchase
      2001-09-04	Tony Fiore	MIN-40 (AAA)	MIN-40 (MLB)	Promotion (Sept)
      2001-09-04	Danny Ardoin	MIN-40 (AAA)	MIN-00 (AAA)	DFA
      2001-09-04	Adam Johnson	MIN-40 (AAA)	MIN-40 (MLB)	Recall (Sept)
      2001-09-04	Bobby Kielty	MIN-40 (AAA)	MIN-40 (MLB)	Recall (Sept)
      2001-09-18	Michael Cuddyer	MIN-00 (AAA)	MIN-40 (AAA)	Purchase
      2001-09-18	John Barnes	MIN-25	MIN-00	DFA
      2001-09-18	John Barnes	MIN-00	COL-40 (MLB)	Waiver Claim (Sept)
      2001-09-21	Casey Blake	MIN-25	MIN-00	DFA
      2001-09-21	Casey Blake	MIN-00	BAL-40 (MLB)	Waiver Claim (Sept)
      2001-09-21	Michael Cuddyer	MIN-40 (AAA)	MIN-40 (MLB)	Promotion (Sept)
      2001-09-21	Johann Santana	MIN-DL60	MIN-40 (MLB)	Activation (Sept)
      2001-10-12	Casey Blake	BAL-40 (MLB)	MIN-40 (MLB)	Waiver Claim (Offseason)
      2001-10-12	Jason Maxwell	MIN-40 (MLB)	FA	DFA
      2001-10-14	Hector Carrasco	MIN-40 (MLB)	FA	DFA
      2001-10-16	Javier Valentin	MIN-00 (AAA)	MIN-40 (MLB)	Purchase
      2001-10-24	Chad Allen	MIN-40 (MLB)	FA	DFA

2. Hey, AMR got a shout by the All Star on Twitter:

   mcuddy5 Michael Cuddyer
   Wow. Pretty impressive! RT @AMR_MN: @mcuddy5 After your last FSNorth column, I made a list of all 172 players (cont) http://tl.gd/bjgrmb

   1. Cuddyer's a very fan-friendly Twitter guy. Maybe this will make him the official Twins representative at the WGOM, eh?

      1. It'd be weird to have a Twin check in with any frequency. Too much Clemenating of people that any Twin would know personally.
         Imagine if Cuddy would check in on game recaps. "SoCal, you're being too tough on Capps. I talked to him after the game and ..." Sorry but that's too close. Twitter is the appropriate distance for me.*

         *Not true for Chuck James! Come join our online community, Chuck! We're awesome and you're awesome and we love you and you'll love us. You and I agree on the important things, like that you should be pitching for the Twins now and for years to come. BTW, when you get the next call, I want you to know that we have a guest room in our new house, just minutes from Target Field via public transit. The room is available to you any time you want, I've got clean sheets on it and the #44 Pillow that I appliquéed just for you. I'll even let you use the internet whenever you want, even if it's just to post on Talking Chop instead of here.

         But we now know that at least one Twin has been to the new URL.

         1. I'd love it if some players would check in here once in a while, as long as they didn't take any of the stuff said here personally.

   2. I hope Cuddy is not traded

      1. Dido.

         1. Thirded.
            I want him to be Twin for Life like Radke, Hrbek, Kirby, Gassner, Watkins, and Glenn.
            And I proposed it before, but if he can stay a Twin for Life and avoid injury and aging well enough to retire on his own timetable, I'd love for the Twins to send him off by letting him go César Tovar and play every position in one game. (He's only avoided Catcher, Pitcher, and Shortstop in his career).

   3. Thanks. As I read the article on the bus, I imagined putting it together and then tweeting it to Cuddy as Twitter bait. Success!
      It's like near-instant-gratification fan-mail.

      I waited a few hours after posting to Tweet to Cuddy so it had a chance to be peer reviewed. (No one saw any material defects.)

      I wonder what banner he got. I hope it was his Magic or the Punto one.
      I hope it was not Tolbertin' Lasers or Capps & Gravy.

      1. heh. when i opened the article after seeing he had read it, i got the mustache banner and wondered the exact same thing.

         1. All I could wonder after seeing this is which banner he got. I sure hope he saw "Where the Magic Happens".

3. (494) Days of Lew.

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