To continue the Matt Garza story, here’s one of the more ridiculous quotes of the day courtesy of Twins manager Ron Gardenhire (in reference to Garza):

“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."

Ok, so he’s not mature enough today, but after pitching 2 or 3 games at AAA, he’ll be mature? Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.

My, how the mighty have fallen…

As expected, right-handed pitchers Mark Prior and Rocky Cherry, and outfielder Angel Pagan have been optioned to Triple-A Iowa. Prior, 26, went 0-2 with a 6.97 ERA (8 ER/10.1 IP) in four spring training contests (three starts).

Today we are fortunate to have a special guest contribution from Bill Chuck. Bill is the creator of Billy-Ball.com and, with Jim Kaplan, is the author of the book, Walk-Offs, Last Licks, and Final Outs – Baseball’s Grand (and not so Grand Finales), to be published by ACTA Publishing, later this year.

Now head on over and check out Bill’s debut article here at BDD: Rush, Rush to Boston