2030 Minnesota Twins

[Slyder]

After losing in 6 games the Twins return a large chunk of their team from last year. The only significant losses were Mike McCollough to retirement and Jason Lock.

The Cornerstone of this team is still the rotation.

#	Name	Age	ERA	W-L	WHIP	CG	Shutout	End
97	Amador Ramirez	22	3.21	23-6	1.09	16	2	10
8	Johnnie Maselli	25	3.00	23-5	1.16	16	5	9
53	Jeffrey McCarthy	33	3.64	17-7	1.18	14	1	9
74	Jacob Dexter	20	4.91	17-12	1.29	14	1	9
77	Joshua Gehring	32	5.14	11-14	1.47	8	2	8

Dexter needs to take the next step and secure my confidence that he can do it from April til October and be that 4th arm in a series. Gehring is in the rotation because I don't want to over tax my rotation and have them get tired. Will probably be a little faster with the hook considering playoffs they all seem to get gassed and it cost me games.

Opening Day Lineup returns almost intact. The loss of the DH made Olson movable as he went to CF to fill the loss of Jason Lock.

	Pos	#	Name	Age	BA	OBP	HR	RBI	Runs	SB
1	SS	39	Val Hunt	28	.291	.403	15	86	115	46
2	2b	91	Daniel Wade	33	.320	.379	10	117	115	45
3	RF	8	Emilio Lizardo	28	.306	.403	27	118	139	76
4	1B	71	Jon St. John	24	.316	.385	21	131	114	23
5	3B	73	Justin Hickmon	27	.290	.357	8	65	65	1
6	CF	50	Earle Olson	25	.268	.411	20	83	104	16
7	CA	45	Douglas Blair	32	.322	.376	15	106	92	28
8	LF	59	Carl Ruvalcaba	29	.322	.355	8	78	86	2

Lineup was one of the best last year and hopefully with another year under a lot of guys belts it will be even more prolific this year. Olson could be a wild card if he takes that next step. And Justin Hickmon is my Edwin Encarncion.

Bullpen= Easiest job in baseball last year was being a reliever for the Minnesota Twins. Going to put a little more pressure on them so they are better prepaired for the postseason.

#		Name	Age	App	ERA	Whip	W-L	Saves
26	RHP	Ramon Omara	26	50	2.79	1.16	4-4	38
62	RHP	Robert Ward	36	48	3.33	1.16	6-2	29	Chi Cubs
91	LHP	Robert Sanchez	32	10	9.35	1.73	0-1	0	Lefty Spec
98	RHP	Lloyd McCarville	28	19	2.55	1.13	5-1	1
76	LHP	Harold Richardson	26	3	1.98	0.80	0-0	0
83	LHP	Frank Alaniz	30	21	2.55	1.14	1-1	2	AAA stats
28	RHP	David Braud	22	27GS	5.51	1.50	8-8	0	AAA

The pen is going to be a more fluid situation than last year, hope to get a couple more arms via trade to compete.

Bench: Is yet to be finalized. I will post after scrap session is done.

Feel free to throw out thoughts of the Twins.