The #Twins still are undecided but now leaning towards passing on HS pitcher Hunter Greene and taking Louisville 1B Brendan McKay w 1st pick— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) May 15, 2017
No link, no indication of source. Noteworthy, however, for the identification of McKay not as a pitcher but as a first baseman.
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A few Twins roster moves of late that I hadn't noted:
Michael Tonkin passed through waivers Saturday, indicating that (unlike Danny Santana) nobody thought him worth a roster spot, and has been reassigned to Triple A Rochester. So he remains in the organization.
Normally retaining a player is better than losing him, but I fear that Tonkin's availability might result in him getting another opportunity over one of the younger relief prospects.
Engelb Vielma and Nick Gordon had been splitting time at shortstop and second base with each other at Double A Chattanooga. Indeed, as of this morning the Lookouts team page at Baseball Reference had each with 19 games at short and 14 at second, an even split.
But Vielma has been moved up to Triple A after slashing ,286/.362/.328 for Jake Mauer's team. Gordon (.317.,380/.472) remains in Chatanooga. This presumably opens the door for each to revert to his usual shortstop position, probably more so for Gordon than Vielma.
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In all of American League history dating back to 1901, more games have now been played with the Designated Hitter Rule than without it.— Bill James Online (@billjamesonline) May 15, 2017
The AL inflicted the DH rule on itself in 1973 (as my verb choice implies, I'm not a fan), so there are still fewer seasons with it than without, but the seasons are longer now than for most of the time pre-DH and there are more AL teams than pre-DH, so there are more games per year.
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