Gulf Coast League Twins

Gulf Coast League Twins Founded in 1991 Fort Myers, Florida
Team Logo Cap Insignia
Class-level
Rookie "A"
Minor league affiliations
Gulf Coast League Southern Division
Major league affiliations
Minnesota Twins
Name
GCL Twins
Ballpark
Lee County Sports Complex
Minor league titles
League titles
Division titles	2007, 2009
Owner(s)/Operated by: Minnesota Twins
Manager: Ramón Borrego
General Manager: Tom Saffell

The Gulf Coast League Twins are the Rookie "A" Level Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. The team plays in Fort Myers, Florida, at the Lee County Sports Complex.

Four players from the 2008 GCL Twins & a fan smile for a picture

Gulf Coast League team rosters are thirty players, and cannot have more than twelve players over twenty years old, and no more than four players over 21. No player can have more than two years of prior service, excluding Rookie leagues outside the United States and Canada. The team is composed mainly of players who are in their first year of professional baseball either as draftees or non-drafted free agents from the United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Venezuela and other countries.

The GCL Twins compete in the GCL's Southern Division. In 2009, the GCL Twins won the South with a 34-21 record under manager Jake Mauer, who is the older brother of the Minnesota Twins AL MVP catcher Joe Mauer. They lost 1-0 in twelve innings to the wild card winning GCL Nationals in the one game playoff. Following the season, Mauer was promoted to manager of the Florida State League Fort Myers Miracle, and Chris Heintz took the reins for the GCL Twins. Like Mauer, Heintz was also a player in the Twins organization. He coached with the Beloit Snappers the final two months of the 2009 season. In addition to managing the GCL club, Heintz will also run the Twins' extended Spring Training.

On July 25, 2010, it was announced that Tom Brunansky, member of the 1987 Twin's championship team, accepted a job to be the hitting coach for the GCL Twins and had started working early this July.

Roster

Gulf Coast League Twins roster
Players				Coaches/Other
Pitchers 16 Gonzalo Sanudo 19 Markus Solbach 21 Nathan Fawbush 31 Josue Montanez 36 Brett Lee 37 Bobby O'Neill 49 Angel Mata 54 Ricardo Arevalo 55 Luis Nunez 59 Nick Cicio 67 Kyle Wahl 68 Gerardo Ramierez 70 Hung Yi Chen 73 Hein Robb 92 Mark Trau 97 Tyler Herr		Catchers 2 Michael Quesada 7 Kelly Cross 45 Phillip Chapman Infielders 11 Aderlin Meija 18 Javier Pimentel 27 Kevin Silvania 30 Joshua Hendricks 57 Julio Torres 65 Stephen Wickens 87 Jorge Polanco 90 Jacob Younis Outfielders Kevin Mention 1 Candido Pimental 12 Romy Jimenez 24 Kevin Ortiz 44 Drew Leachmen 58 Dereck Rodriguez		Manager 59 Ramón Borrego Coaches 22 Ivan Arteaga (pitching) 20 Milt Cuyler (hitting) -- Rudy Hernández (coach) 7-day disabled list * On Minnesota Twins 40-man roster ∞ Reserve list § Suspended list ‡ Restricted list # Rehab assignment Roster updated November 22, 2010 Transactions → More rosters