![]() When Santana returned, the Twins opted to outright Tommy Milone - who with Ricky Nolasco beat out Duffey for one of the five spots in the season-opening rotation - to Triple-A Rochester to keep Duffey’s rotation spot secure. The expectation was that Duffey would make just a spot start as Ervin Santana battled early-season back issues, but Santana ended up missing 16 games, and as a result Duffey settled into that spot in the rotation. It took Duffey a couple starts to hit the reset button, but his third one with the Red Wings was excellent, as he tossed seven solid innings with just one earned run on seven hits with a 6-1 K/BB ratio, and that was enough for the Twins to give him a call-up back to the big club, where he made his first start in Washington D.C. Nevertheless, Duffey finished the spring with a 7.30 ERA, a 1.62 WHIP, as many strikeouts as walks (six each) and a one-way ticket to Rochester, N.Y. The primary reasoning from Duffey’s side was that he spent the spring working on secondary things - his curve and changeup - and while the results weren’t what had been hoped for, the idea was that he was working on making himself a more well-rounded pitcher than the one who finished with a 3.10 ERA in 10 starts with the Twins in 2015. ![]() Contract Status : Free agent after 2021, arbitration-eligible after 2018.ĭuffey was a surprise omission from the Opening Day rotation, as a rough spring left him behind the curve in the eyes of Twins evaluators.Expected 2017 Role : Will be in the mix to start in 2017, but may end up a back-of-the-bullpen reliever with his two-pitch mix.That means we’ll wrap it up with Miguel Sano sometime in the first week of December. Albers and move all the way through the pitchers, then to the catchers, infielders, outfielders and finally those listed as designated hitters on the club’s official MLB.com roster. This is a series of evaluations that will be done this offseason on every player that closed the season on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins, with one appearing every weekday from now until each player has been evaluated.
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