Thursday,
December 9, 2010
Twins and the Rule 5 Draft(s)
The Winter
Meetings is coming to an end and one of the final events of the meetings is the
Rule 5 draft. It is set to begin in about a minute, and if the Tiwns lose any players or add any players, I will be
posting here. The Twins have 37 on their 40 man roster, so if they choose to
be, they could be active.
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Twins selected Scott
Diamond, a left-handed pitcher from the Atlanta Braves organization. He
began 2010 in AA Mississippi where he went 4-6 with a 3.52 ERA in 17 starts. In
102.1 innings, he gave up 113 hits, walked 39 and struck out 90. He moved up to
AAA Gwinnett where he made ten starts and went 4-1 with a 3.36 ERA. In 56.1
innings, he gave up 53 hits, walked 15 and struck out 33.
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No Twins players were taken in the Major League portion
of the Rule 5 draft. Kyle Waldrop, Steve Singleton and others that were
eligible will be back with the organization. Only 19 players were drafted.
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Teams can have 38 players on their AAA rosters. The Twins
have 37, so they could make one pick. Note that these players do not have to be
AAA players. Typically they are from A or AA rosters.
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Michael Allen split time between AA
New Britain and Hi-A Ft. Myers in 2010. He has a great arm, but really
struggled. In 2009, he had a 50 game suspension. The Nationals took him in the
AAA portion of the Rule 5 draft.
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Jean Mijares, who pitched for the
Elizabethton Twins, was lost (I didn’t catch the team live). Pitched well after
a slow start. No relation to Jose Mijares. Jean is
small and very skinny.
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Eliecer Cardenas was taken by the Atlanta Braves in the first round of
the Rule 5 draft. This one kind of hurts. Saw him pitch at Beloit. Throws hard,
good slider.
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24 total players
were drafted in the AAA portion of the Rule 5 draft,
the AA portion starts right away and usually goes quite quickly. Only four
players were taken in the AA portion of the Rule 5 draft. The Twins did not
make a selection.
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