Happy Birthday–September 7

Dave Foutz (1856)
Hooks Wiltse (1879)
Curt Davis (1903)
Tommy Matchick (1943)
Willie Crawford (1946)
Joe Rudi (1946)
Darren Bragg (1969)
Jason Isringhausen (1972)
Mark Prior (1980)
Wade Davis (1985)
Devin Smeltzer (1995)

Left-hander Devin Paul Smeltzer has appeared in seven games for the Twins in 2019 at this writing.  He was born in Voorhees, New Jersey, went to high school in Pennsauken, New Jersey, attended Florida Gulf Coast University and San Jacinto College, and was drafted by the Dodgers in the fifth round in 2016.  He pitched pretty well in ten starts for Great Lakes in 2017, but didn't do much anywhere else in the Dodgers organization and was traded to Minnesota at the July deadline of 2018 along with Luke Raley and Logan Forsythe for Brian Dozier.  He did well in ten relief appearances for AA Chattanooga that season.  He began 2019 in AA Pensacola and dominated in five starts, leading to a promotion to Rochester.  He has been up and down between the Twins and the Red Wings since then.  He pitched well for Rochester, even though his won-lost record doesn't show it.  He has been in seven games with the big club, four starts and three relief appearances.  He pitched quite well in four of the seven and no so well in the other three, giving him numbers of 1-2, 4.00, 1.19 WHIP in thirty-six innings.  He turns twenty-four today.  One assumes he'll be given a chance to make the Twins' rotation in 2020.