Since the Twins played their first game on February 29, the centerfield competition has been dubbed a three-man race. But some of the comments that Gardenhire made yesterday on the Twins official site tell us differently:

"I look at one of them to be our center fielder," Gardenhire said in reference to Gomez and Span. "I could send them both down, but I don't know what good that's going to do me. They need to play center field, and they both need to play."

And he said this of Pridie:

"I look at him as more of a role guy."

This assumption could have been made by looking at the amount of playing time Span and Gomez have received in comparison to Pridie. Pridie has made just one start in center this spring, and a good amount of his at-bats have come when he has subbed into the game for Span or Gomez.

So overall the news isn’t all that surprising, but it’s weird to me that the team would come right out and say this. In addition, for all of those people that want Pridie to be the guy on March 31, you may be out of luck.

I’ll have a game recap later tonight as Liriano takes on the Red Sox in the game that will decide the winner of the Mayor’s Cup. I just thought this was interesting and wanted to start a little discussion for everybody here.