Minnesota Twins 2012 (Triple-A Rochester/Double-A New Britain)

last updated 6/27/12 

*Players on the 40-man roster: BOLD 
*Baseball America '12 pre-season rankings: BLUE #
*Baseball Prospectus '12 pre-season rankings: GREEN # 
*MLBDepthCharts 'Under the Radar' breakout candidate: UTR 
*ESPN's 2012 Farm System Ranking: 14

•Minnesota Twins (Major League Roster)
•Fort Myers (Hi-A)/ Beloit (Lo-A)/ Rookie Levels

ORGANIZATIONAL SCOREBOARD via Baseball America

Rochester Red Wings (AAA)
'Go-To' Starting Lineup (*indicates left-handed batter **indicates switch-hitter) 
1 2B Tsuyoshi Nishioka** 
2 1B Sean Burroughs*
3 3B Danny Valencia
4 LF Matt Carson
5 CF Clete Thomas* 
6 RF Wilkin Ramirez
7 SS Pedro Florimon**  
8 DH Brian Dinkelman*
9 C Rene Rivera

Bench
C J.R. Towles
IF Ray Chang
IF/OF Mike Hollimon**

Starting Rotation
1 RHP Cole De Vries 
2 RHP Steve Hirschfeld
3 LHP Luke French
4 RHP Brendan Wise

Bullpen
CL RHP Casey Fien

SU RHP Caleb Thielbar

SU RHP Jeff Manship 

MID RHP Esmerling Vasquez
MID RHP Deolis Guerra BA#15 
MID RHP Luis Perdomo
LR RHP Bobby Lanigan

Disabled List

Position Players

None 

Pitchers
RHP David Bromberg
RHP Kyle Gibson BA#8 BP#10  + underwent Tommy John surgery in September 2011
RHP Carlos Gutierrez BA#17 BP#17 
RHP Lester Oliveros BA#26  
RHP Anthony Slama
LHP Matt Maloney

New Britain Rock Cats (AA)

'Go-To' Starting Lineup (*indicates left-handed batter **indicates switch-hitter) 

1 RF Rene Tosoni*

2 CF Aaron Hicks** BA#4 BP#4  

3 RF Oswaldo Arcia* BA#5 BP#5
4 C Chris Herrmann* BA#14 

5 3B Deibinson Romero 

6 1B Matthew Rizzotti* 

7 LF Nathan Hanson

8 DH Chris Colabello

9 SS James Beresford* 

Bench

C Danny Lehmann
C Daniel Rohlfing
IF Estarlin De Los Santos**
IF Shawn Roof
OF Evan Bigley

Starting Rotation
1 LHP Aaron Thompson
2 LHP Logan Darnell BA#22
3 RHP B.J. Hermsen BA#27 BP#20
4 LHP Andrew Albers
5 RHP Brett Jacobson
6 RHP Shairon Martis

Bullpen
CL RHP Bruce Pugh 
SU RHP Dan Turpen
SU LHP Blake Martin
MID LHP Edgar Ibarra
MID RHP Dakota Watts
LR RHP Daniel Sattler

Disabled List
Position Players
OF Joe Benson BA#2 BP#3 UPDATE 5/24 - likely out 6 weeks (hamate surgery)

Pitchers 
RHP Alex Wimmers BA#25 BP#7