Pedro Florimon signs a minor league contract.
Tag Archives: Minnesota Twins
Happy Birthday–January 8
Walker Cooper (1915)
Jim Busby (1927)
Gene Freese (1934)
Reno Bertoia (1935)
Bruce Sutter (1953)
Ramon Romero (1959)
Randy Ready (1960)
Brian Boehringer (1969)
Jason Giambi (1971)
Mike Cameron (1973)
Carl Pavano (1976)
This Week in Twins Transactions
Sean Burroughs signed a minor league contract.
Casey Fien signed a minor league contract.
Steve Pearce signed a minor league contract.
Cesar Ciurcina was released.
Pedro Guerra was released.
Todd Van Steensel was released.
Happy Birthday–January 6
George Shoch (1859)
Phil Masi (1916)
Jiro Noguchi (1920)
Early Wynn (1920)
Ralph Branca (1926)
Lee Walls (1933)
Lenny Green (1933)
Ruben Amaro (1936)
Don Gullett (1951)
Kiyoshi Nakahata (1954)
Norm Charlton (1963)
Dan Naulty (1970)
Marlon Anderson (1974)
Brian Bass (1982)
Anthony Slama (1984)
This Week In Twins Transactions
Bill Smith was named assistant to the president and general manager.
Jason Marquis agrees to terms on a one year contract.
This Week in Twins Transactions
Jim Hoey was claimed off waivers by Toronto.
Jose Mijares was not tendered a contract.
Pedro Florimon was outrighted to Rochester.
Gene Glynn was named manager of Rochester.
Tom Brunansky was named batting coach of Rochester.
Stu Cliburn was named pitching coach of New Britain.
Rudy Hernandez was named coach for New Britain.
Ivan Arteaga was named pitching coach of Elizabethton.
Josh Willingham agrees to terms on a three year contract.
Happy Birthday–December 11
Hoss Radbourn (1854)
Art Wilson (1885)
Fred Toney (1888)
Swish Nicholson (1914)
Hal Brown (1924)
Lee Maye (1934)
Mike Henneman (1961)
Thomas Howard (1964)
Jay Bell (1965)
Derek Bell (1968)
Frankie Rodriguez (1972)
Happy Birthday–December 10
Jimmy Johnston (1889)
Rudy Hernandez (1931)
Jaime Jarrin (1935)
Doc Edwards (1936)
Bob Priddy (1939)
Dalton Jones (1943)
Steve Renko (1944)
Paul Assenmacher (1960)
Doug Henry (1963)
Luis Polonia (1963)
Mel Rojas (1966)
Joe Mays (1975)
Dan Wheeler (1977)
Pedro Florimon (1986)
Pitcher Rudy Hernandez was a member of the old Washington franchise in 1960, but was chosen by the new Washington franchise in the expansion draft in December of 1960.
This Week in Twins Transactions
Pedro Florimon was claimed off waivers from Baltimore.
Kevin Slowey was traded to Colorado for a player to be named later.
Daniel Turpen was acquired from Colorado as the player to be named later.
Matt Capps agreed to terms on a one year contract.
Terry Doyle was selected from the White Sox in the Rule 5 draft.
Marty Popham was claimed off waivers from Cleveland (A Carolina).
Shooter Hunt was placed on waivers by A Ft. Myers and was claimed by St. Louis.
Happy Birthday–December 6
Jocko Conlan (1899)
Tony Lazzeri (1903)
Stan Hack (1909)
Dan Dobbek (1934)
Tony Horton (1944)
Larry Bowa (1945)
Tim Foli (1950)
Chuck Baker (1952)
Gary Ward (1953)
Juan Carlos Oliva (1954)
Steve Bedrosian (1957)
Larry Sheets (1959)
Kevin Campbell (1964)
Kevin Appier (1967)
Chris Basak (1978)
Jason Bulger (1978)
The younger brother of Tony Oliva, Juan Carlos Oliva was a star pitcher in Cuba and later became a successful pitching coach there.