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In just a couple short months pitchers and catchers will be reporting to Ft. Myers, FL to kick off the 2007 spring training. If the Twins don't find a #2 starter before by then, then this could be a pretty dissapointing offseason, with Jeff Cirillo being the only noteworthy signing--and he's not even a starter.

Francisco Liriano has decided to undergo Tommy John surgery after months of questioning whether strength training was an effective option. Liriano will have the procedure done on Monday and will then immediately begin on what's expected to be 18 months of rehab. The chances of him returning during 2007 is virtually zero and even when he returns in 2008 there may be questions marks as to how effective he will be.

Carlos Silva's ineffectiveness on Wednesday night cost the Twins another loss against baseball's worst team. In Silva's final start of the season he saw he ERA jump back over the 6.00 mark. If there's any positive you can take from it, it's that Silva is even more unlikely to win a spot in the postseason rotation. He shouldn't even make the roster. Kansas City has been a much tougher opponent for the Twins than they should've been this year. The Twins have just an 11-7 record against the .373 Royals.

The Twins have seemed to play their poorest baseball after off days, and Tuesday's series opener was no exception. The offense could only muster 5 hits against mediocre lefty, Mark Redman. This was following the 1-run performance on Sunday against lefthander Mark Buerhle, who has also struggled in the second half of the season. The White Sox victory over Tampa Bay puts the Twins back in second in the wildcard race—by 1/2 game.

The Twins had a good day on Thursday against the Royals both offensively and defensively. Lefties Morneau and Mauer and also Batista and Castro had the day off today. Mark Redman started for the Royals, but didn't make it through the 2nd.

You know that optimistic feeling all baseball fans have at the beginning of the season? Well, that's starting to wear off. It doesn't look like the Twins have improved their offense as much as we'd hoped. Wednesday night, Runelvys Hernandez, who didn't even start the season in the Royals rotation limited the Twins to 2 hits, no walks, and 1 run in 7 innings. The Twins picked up a hit in both the 8th and 9th innings, for a grand total of 4 hits in the game. The only run of the game came on Justin Morneau's 5th homer of the season.