A rundown of how Twins players did in the World Baseball Classic:
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This Week in Twins Transactions
One assumes nearly all of these decisions were made before spring training started and that, barring a rash of injuries, these players were going to be sent down at this time no matter what they did.
B. J. Hermsen was optioned to New Britain.
Chris Herrmann was optioned to Rochester.
Trevor May was optioned to New Britain.
Josmil Pinto was optioned to New Britain.
Danny Santana was optioned to New Britain.
Michael Tonkin was optioned to New Britain.
Kyle Gibson was optioned to Rochester.
Caleb Thielbar was optioned to Rochester.
Bryan Augenstein was assigned to minor league camp.
Nick Blackburn was assigned to minor league camp.
Alex Meyer was assigned to minor league camp.
Lester Oliveros was assigned to minor league camp.
Esmerling Vasquez was assigned to minor league camp.
Anthony Slama was assigned to minor league camp.
Kyle Knudson was assigned to minor league camp.
James Beresford was assigned to minor league camp.
Oswaldo Arcia was optioned to Rochester.
It appears that B. J. Hermsen is now sometimes being referred to as Brett Hermsen. I don't know why.
Spring training game! Twins -v- Red Sox 6:05pm
game is on FSN+
Tonight's lineups: (from Phil Miller)
Twins -- Hicks CF, Carroll 3B, Parmelee 1B, Doumit C, Arcia RF, Benson DH, Dozier 2B, Escobar SS, Mastroianni LF. Hendriks P, potentially followed by Duensing, Hernandez, Robertson, Perdomo and Walters.
This Week in Twins Transactions
Daniel Ortiz was assigned to major league camp.
One assumes the pace of transactions will pick up soon.
Happy Birthday–March 5
Sam Thompson (1860)
Jeff Tesreau (1888)
Lu Blue (1897)
Elmer Valo (1921)
Del Crandall (1930)
Phil Roof (1941)
Katsuo Osugi (1945)
Kent Tekulve (1947)
Doug Bird (1950)
Mike Veeck (1951)
Mike Squires (1952)
Steve Ontiveros (1961)
Brian Hunter (1971)
Jeffrey Hammonds (1971)
Ryan Franklin (1973)
Paul Konerko (1976)
Mike MacDougal (1977)
Joe Benson (1988)
Katsuo Osugi was the first player to have a thousand hits in the Japanese Central League and the Japanese Pacific League.
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to brianS’ daughter.
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This Week in Twins Transactions
Kyle Davies was signed.
Andrew Albers was assigned to major league camp.
Twins (and Ex-Twins) in the WBC
Twins players are in bold. Ex-Twins are in italics.
Happy Birthday–February 24
Honus Wagner (1874)
Wilbur Cooper (1892)
Del Wilber (1919)
Bubba Phillips (1928)
Dave Edwards (1954)
Eddie Murray (1956)
Nick Esasky (1960)
Stubby Clapp (1973)
Mike Lowell (1974)
Randy Keisler (1976)
Bronson Arroyo (1977)
Dewayne Wise (1978)
Rob Bowen (1981)
Nick Blackburn (1982)
J. D. Durbin (1982)
Chris Parmelee (1988)
Today is also the birthday of Twins' farm director Jim Rantz (1938), who was the winning pitcher in the deciding game of the 1960 College World Series.
Happy Birthday–February 18
Ray Ryan (1883)
George Mogridge (1889)
Sherry Smith (1891)
Jake Kline (1895)
Huck Betts (1897)
Joe Gordon (1915)
Herm Wehmeier (1927)
Frank House (1930)
Manny Mota (1938)
Dal Maxvill (1939)
Bob Miller (1939)
Jerry Morales (1949)
John Mayberry (1949)
Bruce Kison (1950)
Marc Hill (1952)
Rafael Ramirez (1958)
Kevin Tapani (1964)
John Valentin (1967)
Shawn Estes (1973)
Jamey Carroll (1974)
Chad Moeller (1975)
Ray Ryan was involved in minor league baseball for six decades. He had one baseball card, a part of the T206 tobacco series. This is the series that produced the famous Honus Wagner card.
Jake Kline was the baseball coach at Notre Dame from 1934-1975.
Happy Birthday–February 17
Pat Pieper (1886)
Nemo Leibold (1892)
Wally Pipp (1893)
Ed Brandt (1905)
Red Barber (1908)
Rod Dedeaux (1914)
Roger Craig (1930)
Cliff Gustafson (1931)
Dick Bosman (1944)
Dave Roberts (1951)
Jaime Easterley (1953)
Mike Hart (1958)
Michael Jordan (1963)
Scott Williamson (1976)
Juan Padilla (1977)
Josh Willingham (1979)
Pat Pieper was the public address announcer for the Chicago Cubs from 1916-1974. For the first sixteen of those years, he made the announcements with a megaphone.
Rod Dedeaux and Cliff Gustafson were highly successful college baseball coaches, Dedeaux with USC and Gustafson with Texas.
Already known as a basketball star, Michael Jordan played one year of minor league baseball for AA Birmingham in the White Sox organization before returning to the less-challenging sport.