March 29, 2007
Silva Nickel
Carlos Silva takes the fifth spot in the Twins rotation over Matt Garza:
Garza, the team's first-round draft pick in 2005, appeared upset upon arriving in a golf cart at the minor league complex with his equipment. He declined to comment.
"We've been thinking about it over and over again, trying to decide what's best for this young man and our ballclub," manager Ron Gardenhire said. "He needs to be able to locate his pitches a little bit more.
"You have to be able to locate all of your pitches, besides your fastball. You can survive in spring training into six or seven innings with your fastball. You can't do that in the big leagues. He'll mature out there after a couple of weeks."
I suspect a bad outing or two by Sliva is all that's needed to return Garza to the majors.
re: carlos silva
still, silva had an amazing stat from two years ago of walking less than ten men or something in over 150 innings pitched. his control was phenomenal.
if he can't start, he certainly should relieve. control like that would be great in any relief pitcher.
--arthur j kyriazis, philly