>Only difference between the Angles and Twins last night was
>one team has a bullpen. And (of slightly greater importance,)
>Mike Trout. But also a bullpen.

I think that shutting down Jose Berrios at around 160 innings was exactly the right move. He's starting to look like somebody with #1 upside and that's a commodity to be protected. But there's a point where even if "don't let Jose Berrios throw over 160ish innings" is a valid and correct conclusion that we can still question HOW those innings were distributed.

Dude made twelve starts for Rochester. He basically proved that he had mastered AAA at about half that. Say the Twins cut him off at around 130, call him up and say "you're in our bullpen to learn bigleague hitters for the last eight weeks of the season."

He gets his feet wet, doesn't excede 160 innings, and the Twins have somebody with big bat-missing potential pitching out of the pen instead of... Neal Cotts.

All of this applies to Alex Meyer, who had a rough year but has not stopped doing the following:

-throw 98mph
-strike out a bunch of dudes

It'd be nice to have both of those guys around right now. And they're on the 40-man, so all it would take is a phone call.