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Pretty fitting to have a guy the Twins gave up on close out the series winner. Pathetic effort.
All Things 2025 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread
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5 hits today including 2 (yes 2) extra base hits, good for 1 run. Dang pitchers didn't throw a shutout. No wonder they lost.
Seriously, this team is badly, badly flawed offensively. Not only are they losing but, worse, they are BORING! Not fun to watch.
Seriously, this team is badly, badly flawed offensively. Not only are they losing but, worse, they are BORING! Not fun to watch.
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Listening to Twins radio, Festa's ERA with Vázquez catching him was under 2.00 before today. With Jeffers it was over 3.50.
Didn't work. In part because of a muffed double play attempt in the bottom of the 1st.
Meanwhile, Jeffers was afforded an opportunity to chase Vázquez' futility at the plate by being inserted as a PH and killed a late potential Twins rally.
Didn't watch live today, just following along when I could.
But, I was just able to look at the highlight of the potential double play ball. Looked like Lee and Castro handled it fine. What did I miss?
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3 runs in 4 games against the marlins. If I am Rocco I wanna be fired so I don’t have to watch this disaster anymore. I hate them.
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It was only 3 games against the Marlins, as I believe it is for all series against NL Teams now.
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I was only going by Twins Radio. Off the bat, Atteberry indicated "it should be two". He and Perkins just thought there was hesitation in the turn.
Fine. He shouldn't have caught on Monday then. Catching him more than one game per series is absurd.
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The guy he's backing up is no great shakes either. 2 for 29, with a robust Season WAR of 0.5.
Pretty minor difference. Both are stinking up the joint currently.
Jeffers isn't having a good season. But he's still hitting 65 points better and OPSing over 200 points better. That's not a minor difference.
Ok. Maybe. I didn't see it but Perkins knows better than me. Fast runner.
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Astonishingly, the Twins are 53-73 since the Great Collapse of 2024 despite having a 13 game win streak during this period.
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The WAR differential is what I was referencing as being minor, which is also a season long statistic.
Neither are very good right now.
1-33 vs 2-29.
Obsessing over their AB distribution seems like a complete waste of time.
When your offense is terrible giving 50% of your starts to the worst hitter in baseball for no reason isn't logical. How many other teams platoon catchers 50/50?
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The other half of the 50/50 isn't doing substantially better. A difference of 0.4 WAR is pretty minute, in my opinion.
There was a reason today. Festa's ERA was more than a run and a half better throwing to Vázquez instead of Jeffers, who still got an AB anyway and failed while killing a rally.
That's actually my gripe. When they PH, they could have used Clemens or even Correa instead of Jeffers to potentially make noise.
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