Twins Claim Breslow

The Twins have announced that they've claimed Craig Breslow off waivers. No word on who's next to fall for the fallacy that they can make Jorge Julio into a reliable major league pitcher.

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THey will be happy with him, given that he works > once every three weeks

The 2008 Cleveland Indians: Home of the Triple Steal, Unassisted Triple Play, and not a heck of a lot more.

by westbrook on May 29, 2008 4:57 PM EDT reply actions

Craig Breslow is a casualty of crazy circumstance. If and when he has a stretch of success elsewhere-and it wouldn’t shock me if that happens-I hope this is not lost in a future rant about endemic talent evaluation failures.

by jhon on May 29, 2008 6:01 PM EDT reply actions

Great… The Twins take waiver wire fodder and turn them into HOFers.

by gte619n on May 30, 2008 11:51 AM EDT reply actions

Such as?

by Jay on May 30, 2008 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Santana.
Nathan.
Neshek.

They just seem to have really good luck taking pitchers nobody else wants and getting the use out of them.

by gte619n on May 30, 2008 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions

Nathan was a highly coveted prospect that they acquired along with Liriano and Bonser for AJ P

Santana was rule V

by Roger Dorn on May 30, 2008 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions

I don’t think that Nathan was highly coveted at that time. If I remember correctly he was considered crap before he started dominating in Minnesota.

by gahnki on May 30, 2008 4:27 PM EDT up reply actions

He may not have been their #1 prospect, but his numbers his last year in SF were actually quite good: Bref

He was hardly fodder with a 142ERA+ 83K in 79 IP with a 1.06 WHIP.

by talonk on May 30, 2008 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions

As Dorn said, you’ll have to provide more evidence than this.

Nathan and Santana were not anyone’s fodder, ever. Also, Neshek was a 6th round pick by the Twins, so that wouldn’t fit your description either.

by talonk on May 30, 2008 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Sindney Ponson.
Ramon Ortiz.
Livan Hernandez.

Wait, that’s a different list.

by Brick. on May 30, 2008 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

gte … you have laid an egg here.

Santana was Rule 5, everyone knew he could be really good, but nobody thought a team would select a guy who was 2-3 years from being ready for the majors, and keep him on the 25-man all year even though he couldn’t compete there. Obviously, they were wrong.

Nathan was one of the best relievers in the game the year before the Twins got him. 83 K in 79 IP, 2.96 ERA. Really, really good.

Neshek was a draft pick. Their draft pick.

So that … zero waiver claims … and zero pitchers that nobody else wanted.

by Jay on May 30, 2008 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions

dot dot

Dennys Reyes
Matt Guerrier
Jason Tyner
those are the only 3 player the Twins have picked off ‘the screaheap’ that have been worth a darn over the last 3 years. Otherwise, the Twins have picked up these middle of the road minor league players in trades

by DedicatedFollowerOfFashion on May 31, 2008 2:50 PM EDT reply actions