I Dislike Your Favorite Team

In the early days of this blog (relatively speaking, we've been in existence less than 6 months--when I die 280 years from now, the first 20 years will be considered the early years. The life-giving stem cell harvesting the Democrats institute change life-expectancy for everyone alive, at the cost of babies. Or so I imagine. Take that, stupid babies.).

In any case, we sung the praises of a fairly unknown reliever named Francisco Liriano. We said he was a new Johann Santana, and back in May we suggested anyone who wanted a reliever/possible starter who would help them in their Fantasy Baseball team should snag Liriano.

Not to toot our own horn (we can't. we've tried. Believe us, we've tried) but we were dead fucking right, and we were a good deal ahead of the curve on Liriano. We as Twins fans know that the Twins, if they can, sit on great pitchers. We who loved Santana a few years ago, were convinced he was one of the best lefties in the game, tore our hair in frustration as he was relegated to the bullpen.

But now, I suppose, we see an example why. Liriano has been maybe overpitched. He's going on the DL. We can only hope it is 15 days, but no one is saying for sure.

But now that ESPN has learned that the Twins have a great eye for pitching prospects (it only took them about 5 years), there is no way to break the news that Matt Garza is going to be the next exciting Twins pitching prospect.

The link above and the photo to the right come courtesy of scout.com, and here's a quick summary of Garza's stuff, that is paraphrased from that site.

Fastball: a low to mid 90's fastball, well placed. Garza's arm doesn't get tired of throwing it. One of the best fastballs in the Twins organizations, and that's saying something, ya'll.

His other pitches lack some of the skill of his fastball, but include a mid 80's slider, a high 70's curveball, and a serviceble change.

He has a reputation as being a tireless worker, and a quick study. Don't be surprised if Garza, given the defense he'll have behind him, and some of the hitters he has on his squad, doesn't get a quality start and a win in his first Major League outing.