Problems With "The Most Rotation" in Baseball

The chief problem with so many starters signed in the organization, is that the Twins won't be able to keep them all.

Sam Deduno, Scott Diamond, and Vance Worley are out of options. If they don't make the 25 man roster this year, they're basically gone.

Let's say Sam Deduno is the fifth starter. And I think he deserves to be. That leaves both Worley and Diamond. It won't be easy putting them in the bullpen either. The Twins already have 7 men, under contract, there. MOST teams have seven pitchers in their bullpen.

The core seven - Glen Perkins, Jared Burton, Casey Fien, Brian Duensing,  Ryan Pressly, Anthony Swarzak and Caleb Thielbar — all made at least 48 appearances (Swarzak was low man in games pitched but led the majors in relief innings), and only Thielbar (46 innings) threw less than 60 innings. All were extremely effective in their roll.

We did go with an eighth bullpen man for a while last year, Josh Roenicke, and he's gone now, so the Twins could put either Diamond or Worley in the pen, but not both. The problem with that is, that to do that, the Twins would then have one less position player on the 25 man roster, which would be one less pinch-hit possibility in late innings. And there's plenty of good young guys that belong on the major league roster.

Signing all those starters will force the Twins to lose some. Not everybody can be sent to minors and be kept there for safe keeping.

AND if we want to bring a young pitcher up after a month or so more in the minors, it means we would have to leave Deduno go to. I'd hate to see that.

The MOST rotation in baseball will end up being a curse. And for all you fans asking for the Twins to sign Garza, yet. STOP. There is no room for him.

Unless Sam goes to an already over-crowded bullpen and we release both Diamond and Worley.

I sure don't want that.

Well, maybe Worley,

but that's it.