Liam Hendriks News

While I am traveling to one of my favorite cities, Boston, the organization put together another winning week at 14-12. Rochester and New Britain were both above .500. In player movement, Joe Benson was placed on the disabled list a day after hitting his first home run back with New Britain.

"We're trying to win games, and whoever's going to give us the best chance to win games is going to continue to get the ball," he said before the Twins' game Friday night, May 25, against the Detroit Tigers at Target Field.

Yohan Flande allowed only a run over a season-high 7 innings, but the Gwinnett Braves' bats couldn't solve Rochester right-hander Liam Hendriks as they were shut down by the Red Wings, 3-1 on Thursday night at Coolray Field.

Cole DeVries was the Gophers' ace in 2006, going 7-3 with a 2.42 ERA and 72-to-32 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 93 innings to earn All-Big Ten second-team honors, but the Eden Prairie native went undrafted before signing with the Twins.

The numbers don't lie: 7 starts, 33 innings, 46 hits, 8.37 earned-run average. Oh wait! Those are Nick Blackburn's numbers.

Marquis is the latest in a long line of Twins DFA'd in 2012. Photo by Benny Sieu-US PRESSWIRE After a nightmarish start in Milwaukee, the Twins are designating Jason Marquis for assignment.

The Red Wings used a four-run third inning Friday night and held off the lowly Louisville Bats 5-3 at Frontier Field, taking three of four in the series.

Nick Blackburn allowed six runs over two innings against the Tigers on Wednesday, raising his ERA to 8.37. And this came after Jason Marquis raised his ERA to 6.68 after Tuesday's loss to the Indians.

The Los Angeles Angels, who open a series against the Texas Rangers on Friday night, will be without catcher Chris Iannetta for at least six weeks.

Guelph native, Scott Diamond went 5-19 last year in 30 combined starts for Class AAA Rochester and the Twins, so the Angels couldn't help but feel stumped after he blanked them for seven innings Tuesday night.

Last time the Pawtucket Red Sox were part of the wrong side of a nine-inning no-hitter, "Moneyball" star Scott Hatteberg manned the backstop in 75 games for the club and tonight's starter for the Rochester Red Wings, Liam Hendriks, was five-years-old. Hendriks, now 23, pitched 5.0 hitless innings before Nate Spears' lead off the sixth-inning with a ... (more)

Dan Haren has thrown four quality starts in six outings this season, and in all four, the 31-year-old right-hander has exited with the lead.

Diamond will replace struggling righthander Liam Hendriks in the rotation. Last season, Diamond was 1-5 with a 5.08 ERA in seven starts with the Twins.

Brian Dozier began the season as the most promising Twins prospect with a chance to reach the Big League club.

It is now four days since the conclusion of qualifying for the MLB 2K12 Perfect Game Challenge and there has been no official declaration of the final eight contestants.

I held off on writing anything for this morning's feature because I figured the Twins would be making a minimum of two roster moves for this weekend's series against the Seattle Mariners .

Weaver pitched the fifth no-hitter ever thrown against the Twins and the second in the majors in less than two weeks, propelling the Los Angeles Angels to a 9-0 victory in Minnesota's ninth loss in 10 games.

Coming off his worst start of the 2012 campaign, and perhaps his young career, Twins starter Liam Hendriks will try to turn his fortunes around Wednesday against the Angels.

In several divisions, the standings look upside-down from preseason predictions.

At this point of the season, the Twins have a lot of problems and obviously very few solutions.