Good and the Bad

First off, I just wanted to verbally thank the Twins for this. With a pitcher of Garza's ability you would have to think that regardless of what the Twins' think he needs to work on he'd be better than Ponson and/or Ramon Ortiz with or without AAA seasoning. Terry Ryan always seems to hang with the veteran choice longer than he should, and it seems he hasn't learned a thing from last years mess with Tony Batista.

The pitcher that beat out Garza for the 5th spot, Silva, had a horrific spring and struggled last year as well. Apparently the Twins see his track record and see Silva as having something left. Silva does have amazing control, but his lack of strikeouts mixed with him being very prone to the longball (38 hrs in only 188 IP last year) makes me think it should have been an easy choice for the Twins. But thats why the play the games. For the Tribe's sake I hope Silva is just slightly below average and makes the Twins take longer to realize their mistake and further themselves from the Tribe as we start the season.

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