Some workout notes from Tuesday

FORT MYERS, FLA. -- I have pulled into my favorite coffee shop, the Courtyard Cafe, to get some work done. Boy I did I walk into an atmosphere,

Some guy is doing an Elvis Tribute Show right outside the shop. I'm trying to read, and he rolls in looking for a bottle of water. Then he walks over to where I'm sitting and starts practicing, ``Suspicious Minds." Ack.

More than a dozen players already are in town and are working out at the Lee County Sports Complex. Liam Hendriks and draftee Hudson Boyd threw off the mound. Scott Baker, Brian Duensing, Nick Blackburn, Glen Perkins and Tsuyoshi Nishioka ran in the outfield. Blackburn looks like he's lost a little weight. Baker is in outstanding shape as usual.

Chris Parmelee, J.R. Towles and other position players fielded grounders and took battling practice on another field.

Joe Mauer hit the weights then took some swings in the battling cages. Whoever hit before him had the sound system blasting, and it was pretty funny as Mauer tried to hit with Adele and R. Kelly in the background,

``I'm just jamming out," Mauer said, ``because I don't know how to turn this down."

Ran into Joe Benson in the clubhouse. His hair is even bigger than it was last year. He's a little down. A two-sport star in high school, he used to own the single-game rushing record of 367 yards at Joliet Catholic High School, located outside Chicago. But junior Ty Issac destroyed the record with a 515-yard performance in the state title game in November.

Players began leaving the complex around noon. Twins officials were expected to fly in from the Twin Cities this afternoon.

I'll check in with notes each day before the pitchers and catchers open camp on Sunday. We're also waiting to see if the Twins can avoid arbitration with Alexi Casilla and sign him to a one-year deal.