Five players with major-league experience, four of them pitchers, will join the Twins for spring training next month, the team announced today as it issued 15 invitations to camp.
Luis Matos, an outfielder who has played 508 games with the Orioles and Nationals over the past seven seasons, will be in training camp, along with pitchers Mike Gosling, a left-hander who has appeared in 43 games with Arizona and Cincinnati; R.A. Dickey, a right-handed knuckleballer who has pitched 109 games for Texas and Seattle; Sean Henn, a left-handed reliever who has appeared in 40 games for the Yankees and Padres; and Bobby Keppel, a right-hander with six starts and six relief appearances for the Royals and Rockies. Keppel and Dickey are former first-round draft picks, while Gosling was a second-rounder. The other 10 players invited to camp all spent the 2008 season in the Twins' farm system. Right-hander Kevin Mulvey and infielder Alejandro Machado spent last year with Class AAA Rochester, catcher Danny Lehmann was at Class A Fort Myers, and the other seven primarily played for Class AA New Britain: outfielders Dustin Martin and David Winfree, first baseman Brock Peterson, third baseman Danny Valencia, catcher Jeff Christy, and pitchers Ben Julianel, a left-hander, and Rob Delaney.
Those 15 players will join the members of the Twins' 40-man roster in Fort Myers, Fla., beginning Feb. 15 for pitchers and catchers, and Feb. 20 for the remainder of the team.
