Garza has got the call!

[Outdoors Junkie]

The Twins have called up Garza!  He will make his major league debut on Friday, against Toronto.  This kid started the year in class A ball.  He has pitched great at every level and will get his chance at the big show.  I'm excited to see what he can do.  It would be nice if he could continue pitching well, since Liriano is going on the DL.

[Ryan]

Hopefully he will pitch well, but we have to remember he is a rookie.  Remember last year when Liriano got called up, his ERA for the season was around 5.00. 

[ScottPugh]

Garza better mix up his pitches or they will sit on that fastball that he had been using 90% of the time in the minors.?

[Spinach]

Garza better mix up his pictures or they will sit on that fastball that he had been using 90% of the time in the minors.?

don't think mixing up his pictures will help!

[ScottPugh]

Garza better mix up his pictures or they will sit on that fastball that he had been using 90% of the time in the minors.?

don't think mixing up his pictures will help!

Nah I don't think so...  ::)

[Outdoors Junkie]

Only time will tell with this kid.  There has been a lot of hipe about him the last couple months.

[Outdoors Junkie]

After Garza struck out the first major league batter he faced on only three pitches, I thought he might have a good game.  Well, that changed in a hurry and he was pulled after giving up 7 runs in 2 2/3 innings.

Scott Pugh was right, he threw is fast ball the majority of the time, and Toronto ate him up.

Hopefully it was nerves, and he will be able to throw his breaking balls for strikes next time out.

[Ryan]

I think a lot of it was probably nerves.  I didn't really get to watch much, but the little I saw it looks like he has pretty good stuff even though they were hitting the ball all over the place against him.  Hopefully they give him another start to see what he can do.  I don't think we really have any better options in the minor leagues right now.

[Joe]

Garza on the mound tonight. (fingers crossed)
Let's hope he pitches a better game than Silva did last night.

[A-Rod]

Or at least we drive in a few more runs... aggresive base running seems to light a fire under hitters arsses.

[Outdoors Junkie]

Hopefully he will improve this game as much as he did from his first major league start to the second. 

[Joe]

It surly wouldn't hurt to have a few bats come alive tonight.

[Outdoors Junkie]

Garza pitched great tonight!  He gave up one unearned run.  Twins beat the Orioles 4-1.

[Spinach]

This win should give him al lot of confidence down the stretch.

[Outdoors Junkie]

I hope he keeps improving and he can help the Twins get to the post season!

[shakey legs 2]

He kept the ball down and his curve/slider was in the strike zone plus he had some great defensive help from Bartlett, Castillo and Cudeyer.  In the paper this morning they talked about Liarano possibly being used in a relief role instead of starting for the rest of the year if they can't build his arm strength up to the point where he can throw 80 pitches which I assume would be like 5 innings of work.  If they can get him back to where he was, the Twins will be awful tough in a short series assuming they make the playoffs.

[JohnWester]

Let me preface this with the following statement, negative comments in this forum in the past about the twins (both the team and individual players) have seemed to spark them. So...


There is no way the twins will make post season.

[Outdoors Junkie]

Garza pitched his 4th major league game tonight.  He gave up 2 runs over 7 2/3 innings.  He looked darn good!  Garza breaking balls were over the plate for strikes, and his fast ball was humming.  Too bad the Twins didn't score any runs for him.  They lost 2-0. 

[Joe]

He pitched a hell of a game. He had 7 strike outs too.

[Outdoors Junkie]

Game 2 tonight vs. the Tigers.  Hopefully the offense will support Garza better then they did Baker last night.

[Bufflehead]

 They have pulled him in the 5th and they just tied her up ...forget that...just went ahead 5-4

 go twins!

[Outdoors Junkie]

Twins win tonight 9-5!