Recent transactions involving former Minnesota Twins players:
Cleveland agrees to terms with Brian Buscher.
Cleveland agrees to terms with Mike Gosling.
Cleveland agrees to terms with Luis Rodriguez.
Colorado does not offer arbitration to Joe Beimel.
Houston names Danny Sheaffer catching coordinator.
Minnesota releases Hyun-Wook Choi.
Mets name Chip Hale third base coach.
Mets reinstate Johan Santana from the disabled list.
Juan Morillo signs with Rakuten in Japan.
Please place any additions or corrections in the comments.
Brian Buscher is going to make the Twins pay.
That's another one that I should consider retiring (i.e. have it permanently displayed on the page). Just the mention of it still makes me laugh.
When working in the Bisons press box this past season I heard plenty of stories about what a great guy Jason Tyner was while he was in Buffalo. Whenever his name came up, which was more than you would expect, I just couldn't get the image of a furrowed browed Tyner snarling "The Twins are gonna pay!".
Did Wayne Krivsky start working for the Indians or summat?
It's my understanding that apparently the Twins get some sort of monetary compensation for Morillo signing in Japan, since we had put him on our 40-man roster.
Wow, I didn't even know we had a Hyun-Wook Choi.
Yea, but which one???
was he the no-hit middle infielder, or the no-hit corner outfielder?
This is the light-hitting outfielder. To the best of my knowledge, Hyeong-rok Choi, who had a better season at bat, is still in the Twins organization.
Hyun-Wook "batted" 207/268/288 for the GCL Twins this year (124 PA) with 16Ks to 10BBs.
Hyeong-Rok batted a much more promising 270/353/391 as a 2b (131 PA, 26K, 14 BBs).
both were in their age-19 seasons.
The Cube's scouting report on Hyeong-Rok says mediocre everything except speed, where he is abysmal. Still, he led the team in OPS (among players with more than a dozen appearances).
as for the now-departed Hyun-Wook, the Cube described him as a contact hitter with no power or speed and mediocre patience.