Twins Announce Minor-League Coaching Staffs, Parker Signing & Curtiss DFA

On Monday the Minnesota Twins announced their full slate of minor-league coaching staffs, some of which had already been released.

Here are the staffs:

Triple-A Rochester

Skinner has managed in the big leagues with the Cleveland Indians and in the White Sox organization with Triple-A Charlotte and Single-A Winston-Salem. Valentin was the team's Double-A hitting coach at Chattanooga the past two seasons.

Double-A Pensacola

Borrego managed last season at Single-A Fort Myers. Bello and Willard were dual pitching coaches at Low-A Cedar Rapids in 2018. LaCroix was the trainer for High-A Fort Myers in 2018.

High-A Fort Myers

Gardenhire managed Low-A Cedar Rapids in 2018. Borgschulte was the hitting coach for the GCL Twins last year. Ramirez is up to High-A after spending the last four seasons with the Elizabethton Twins. Jagoda was the Twins minor-league rehab pitching coach last season.

Low-A Cedar Rapids

Dinkelman was the hitting coach for the Kernels in 2018. Smith joins the Kernels from the College of Central Florida. Rodriguez was an infielder with the Twins in the big leagues from 2005-07. Kelly is joining the Kernels from Notre Dame.

Rookie Level Elizabethton

Smith has been with Elizabethton for 33 seasons -- including the upcoming one -- and this will be his 26th as manager. Salazar split last season between the GCL Twins and Chattanooga. Reed is in his 18th season as hitting coach.

Gulf Coast League Twins

Robinson managed the DSL Twins in 2018. Bove is coming from the College of Central Florida, while Hernandez was with the DSL Twins last season. Thomas was in Fort Myers, Rasmussen was at Norther Colorado and Abney was at Austin Peay State.

Dominican Summer League Twins

Feldman was an assistant coach at Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Various Organizational Roles

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On Monday, the Twins also formalized their deal with Blake Parker about a week after it was first rumored among national reporters.

Parker signed for $1.8 million guaranteed, with a potential for $3.2 million total -- the initially reported amount of the deal -- based on days on the active roster, per Jon Heyman of Fancred.

We broke down the Parker signing in detail here, but the general gist is that he gives them some more depth toward the back of games. It's unclear if he's viewed as the team's closer heading into this season, but that seems unlikely since he's coming off a tough season.

To make room on the 40-man roster, the Twins designated reliever John Curtiss for assignment. The Twins now have 10 days to trade or release Curtiss, or place him on waivers for the purpose of outrighting him to the minors. If he clears waivers, he will be sent to the minors, because this is his first outright and he doesn't have enough service time to refuse the assignment.

Curtiss has shown good velocity (94.7 mph average fastball) and some feel for a pretty good slider (18.7 percent whiff rate), but has otherwise not stood out so far in his 15 big-league innings (7.20 ERA, 4.03 FIP, 10.2 K/9, 3.6 BB/9, 18.6 percent GB rate).

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