With the Twins performing triage on a suddenly thin pitching staff, the call went out to Tyler Duffey, as in not Jose Berrios.
Berrios, the Twins' top pitching prospect, is 3-1 with a 3.02 earned-run average in seven starts at Triple-A Rochester. He has 43 strikeouts in 44 1/3 innings pitched since being promoted and has a fastball that reaches into the high-90s.
Fans, understandably, want to see him but it appears that won't happen until September at the earliest.
"We thought about (Berrios), certainly, and gave that a lot of thought," general manager Terry Ryan said.