Vance Worley

The Twins at the beginning of last season thought that Vance Worley was one of the answers to their long-term starting needs. He failed horribly.

This year they were optimistic thinking that a year of seasoning in the minors would fix most of what ailed him last season.

Boy, were they wrong. As I write this, his ERA stands at 13.50 so far this spring. Yesterday he gave up 11 hits and 7 earned runs in less than 3 innings (eight outs) and he didn't have ONE swing and a miss by a single batter. Not one.

Worley's out of options. We have to put him on waivers to be able to send him down to the minors again. We should probably do that right away because, at this point, NOBODY else will probably want him either. But the Worley trade cost us a very good center fielder last season and the Twins don't want to admit defeat on Worley, because some team MIGHT take him. And they would look even worse than they do now.

Yesterday I talked about the business of baseball. Here we go again. Scott Diamond and Sam Deduno are out of options, too. We can't send them down either, because other teams will most assuredly snatch them from the waiver wire.

One of them HAS to be our fifth starter. One MIGHT be added to the bullpen for safe keeping. The other HAS to go. That's business.

And I'm afraid that the Twins will keep Worley.

And they really shouldn't.