Wednesday

Hello, everybody. It's another chilly one here at McKechnie Field, but it is slowly getting warmer, so there is hope.
This is John Lembo, staff writer with The Bradenton Herald, and I will be here for the first of seven - SEVEN! - meetings this spring between the Minnesota Twins and the Pirates.
The lineups:

Twins:
Denard Span, rf
Alexi Casilla, 2b
Delmon Young, lf
Michael Cuddyer, dh
Brian Buscher, 1b
Wilson Ramos, c
Carlos Gomez, cf
Matt Tolbert, ss
Matt Macri, 3b
Francisco Liriano, p

Another ex-Ray (or should I say, Devil Ray, because he left before the Great Name Change of '08) is back, as Delmon Young suits up for the Twins. Had Minnesota won that one-game playoff for the AL Central title, Young would have been back at the Trop for the Division Series. That would have been interesting...

The Pirates
Nyjer Morgan, lf
Freddy Sanchez, 2b
Nate McLouth, cf
Ryan Doumit, c
Adam LaRoche, 1b
Craig Monroe, rf
Brandon Moss, dh
Andy LaRoche, 3b
Jack Wilson, ss
Tom Gorzelanny, p

A day after resting everyone against the Netherlands, manager John Russell throws tha A team at the Twins, including the LaRoche brothers, who will be mannin the corners.

First pitch in two hours.