The Twins' pitching rotation has been, ah, unsettled for a while. We were curious: how many different starters have they used since everything went to [redacted] at the beginning of 2011?
Turns out Tommy Milone, who is slated to start tonight in Houston, will be the 27th different starting pitcher used by the Twins from 2011-14.
Twenty-seven.
Sounds like a random big number you would throw out if you were trying to be mean. But it's the real number.
Here are the other 26 aside from Milone, in order of the number of starts they have made. Honestly, we had forgotten at least a few of these guys:
Scott Diamond 58
Kevin Correia 54
Nick Blackburn 45
Carl Pavano 44
Francisco Liriano 41
Samuel Deduno 41
Brian Duensing 39
Mike Pelfrey 34
Kyle Gibson 32
Liam Hendriks 28
Phil Hughes 24
Scott Baker 21
P.J. Walters 20
Cole De Vries 18
Ricky Nolasco 18
Anthony Swarzak 17
Pedro Hernandez 12
Andrew Albers 10
Vance Worley 10
Yohan Pino 9
Kevin Slowey 8
Jason Marquis 7
Esmerling Vasquez 6
Kris Johnson 3
Logan Darnell 2
Trevor May 1