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A few White Sox farm hands, including their hot-shot 3B Josh Fields, quit winter ball because their team fired the new White Sox third-base coach. I just can't see that happening with the Twins. Maybe if Al Newman were still manning the 3B line, but Scott Ulger? In all seriousness, you just don't see this kind of thing from Terry Ryan's organization.

Less than 48 hours after new Sox third-base coach Razor Shines was fired as LaGuaira's manager last week, prospects Josh Fields, Ryan Sweeney, Sean Tracey and Heath Phillips returned to the United States.

Ozzie is saying this is going to seriously affect Fields' chances of making the team. Can you imagine if Matt Moses would have done this?

On an unrelated note, a guy named 'Dan' e-mailed me and said to check out a list of the Twin top 10 prospects, as ranked by J.P Schwartz at topprospectalert.com. One name jumped out at me from the list -- #5. Yohan Pino (23) Pitcher -- because I don't remember reading his name. Anyone know something about him? He was ranked above bigger names like Glen Perkins, Alexi Casilla and Denard Spahn.

He put up outstanding numbers last year at Beloit, but he's going to be 23 next season and is EXTREMELY skinny: 6'3", 158 pounds. Seriously, is that right?

UPDATE: Whew. The Beloit Snappers page says he's bulked up to 170 pounds. Still rail-thin, but I can cancel that order for 2 pizzas and a bucket of KFC to his home.