All Things 2025 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread

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TRF Guy said:
Kansas City DH Harmon Killebrew hit his final career home run off the Twins' Eddie Bane in the second inning of a 4-3 Royals win at Met Stadium on this date in 1975.

Rod Carew homered in the game for Minnesota.

Killebrew's 573 home runs were fifth-most in MLB history at the time of his retirement, and trailed only Babe Ruth in American League history. He was eventually elected to the Hall of Fame on his fourth ballot.

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Gopher_In_NYC said:
That picture is unnatural and should be banished from the internet
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A Ruthian equivalent with the Boston Braves.

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Wow dead heat.

Since MLB ditched Game 163 (idiotic) the Guards actually have the Tie Breaker having clinched the season series with their win tonight.

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And Eddie Julien climbs over .200 for the season.

So now we only have two hitters under .200 in the lineup tonight
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Outman got in the game to increase the sub-Medoza line total.

Speaking of which, Vasquez was activated yesterday.

Jeffers also returned from his concussion to DH today and his expected to go behind the plate later this week.

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Catching duo of Jeffers and Vázquez back for season's last week

ARLINGTON -- With six games to play in the season, the Twins are getting both of their catchers back. A day after Christian Vázquez was activated from the injured list, Ryan Jeffers joined him. Jeffers was reinstated from the 7-day concussion IL Tuesday after missing 16 games due to a
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Pablo will miss his last start.
 




Twins eliminated the Rangers last night from the WC chase.

Recent Bright Spots Pitching Wise -

Funderburk
Has not allowed any runs, earned of otherwise in his last nine appearances, spanning nine innings and just 3 hits, 1 walk vs. 13Ks.
This has lowered his ERA frim 4.8 to 3.69.

Zebby
Had another quality start last night; that’s his third QS in his last five outings. He’s had 16 starts this season and 4 QS - so I like how this is trending.

As I’ve said before, he has middle of the rotation stuff and is is a big boy at
6’5” 225 lbs and ultimately I think Festa will goes the Griffin Jax route and go to the pen, less innings for his 6’5” 190 lbs frame.
 





GophersInIowa said:
5-14 in September for Detroit. Lucky for them, Houston has lost 4 in a row so they currently are still in position for a wild card spot.
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Also the tank job has put a Bye into Divisional Round essentially out of reach (3 back of Seattle) for the Tigers.
 
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TNGophfan said:
Pretty good year for Buck. Mid 30's HR's, mid 80 RBI'S from leadoff spot, 20 something stolen bases (was he caught this year?), great defense, 120 games. Still too many K's, but.....
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Entering today, 24 SB - 0 CS.

116 games in CF. I had given up on being that much over 100 at least 3 seasons ago.
 

Ober at least ends on a high note, with no runs allowed in 6 innings, just 2 hits en route to a 4-0 victory over the Rangers.

I really hopes his issues this year were physical that he can recover from and regain a few MPH of velo.
 

Congrats to Kaelen and Connor Minor Leaguers of the year.

On Tuesday, the Twins announced their 2025 Minor League player and pitcher of the year. Kaelen Culpepper, the organization’s No. 4 prospect (No. 72 overall), was named player of the year after a breakout season in which he hit .289/.375/.469 between High-A Cedar Rapids and Double-A Wichita. The pitcher of the year was No. 10 prospect, left-hander Connor Prielipp, who posted a 4.03 ERA with 98 strikeouts in 82 2/3 innings at Wichita and Triple-A St. Paul.



Also on Tuesday, Minor League Baseball announced Double-A All-Star teams. Culpepper, outfielder Kala’I Rosario, outfielder Kyler Fedko (honored as a DH), and pitcher Pierson Ohl were all named Texas League All-Stars.
 

Ope3 said:
Ober at least ends on a high note, with no runs allowed in 6 innings, just 2 hits en route to a 4-0 victory over the Rangers.

I really hopes his issues this year were physical that he can recover from and regain a few MPH of velo.
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3 QS against Rangers by Zebby, Taj and Ober.

Funderburk with his 10th consecutive scoreless appearance and further lowers his ERA to 3.6

Let’s finish strong and take the series from Philly.
 

Bert Blyleven went the distance for the 2,000th win in Twins history on this date in 1985.

Remarkably, The Frying Dutchman also earned the 1,000th win in team history on July 12, 1972.
 

Per this article, if the Guards win the Central, it’s MLB history, overcoming the largest defeat to win a division.

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The greatest comeback in MLB history might be unfolding right in front of us

In mid-September, Detroit was nearly a shoo-in to win its division. Not anymore.
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Tradition in Major League Baseball dictates that teams celebrate milestone victories with booze-soaked clubhouse parties. And on Sept. 1, it surely seemed safe for the Detroit Tigers to begin ordering champagne.

Even after a loss to start September, the Tigers were given a 99.8 percent chancethat day to win the American League's Central division by FanGraphs. Detroit's odds of winning the division would remain at 99.0 percent or higher for the next two weeks, too. With the postseason beginning at month's end, it appeared likely the Tigers could earn one of the two first-round playoff byes that go to the two division winners with the best records.

Yet beginning Sept. 11, the Tigers lost 11 of their next 12 games to begin a spectacular free-fall — one that could ultimately set MLB history.

A loss Wednesday dropped the Tigers out of first place in the AL Central for the first time in 155 days. In the standings, they were looking up to Cleveland — the same Guardians who, on July 6, were 15 1/2 games behind the Tigers in the standings. At that point, only three American League teams had worse records than Cleveland.

“It’s painful,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch told reporters Wednesday.

“I’m having a hard time coming up with words, obviously. I know that’s not always that acceptable or the norm, but what I’m seeing out of our team is not normal, but unfortunately, it’s our reality.”

On Thursday, the Tigers (86-73) moved back into a tie for first by beating Cleveland (86-73). Whether the cathartic 4-2 win stops their slide, or acts as only temporary relief, remains to be seen before Sunday's end of the regular season.

As recently as Sept. 5, Cleveland was still 11 games behind the Tigers. But it has won 17 of its last 20 games through Thursday.

Since MLB created divisions in 1969, the 1978 Yankees (14 games back), 2012 Athletics (13 games), 1995 Mariners (13 games), 2006 Twins (12 1/2 games) and 1973 Mets (12 1/2 games) have completed the largest comebacks to win a division title, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, via MLB.com.

Including the pre-division era, the record for largest comeback belongs to the 1914 Braves (15 games back).

If the Guardians win the Central, they will have surpassed even the Braves' 111-year-old record. Their torrid stretch has taken place even though two of their best pitchers, closer Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, have been on non-disciplinary leave since July as the league undergoes a sports-betting investigation that remains ongoing.

Cleveland outfielder Steven Kwan told reporters Wednesday that trying to jumpstart such a comeback had appeared "daunting" earlier this summer, as the team weighed whether to be a seller at the trade deadline.


"But it’s one of those things where ignorance is bliss," Kwan said. "You keep your head down and don’t worry about it. If you get caught up in those things early on, you’re going to be doomed."

Before Sept. 5, Cleveland owned the league's second-worst on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS), second-worst slugging percentage and was dead last in on-base percentage. Only three teams had scored fewer runs. Its pitching staff, meanwhile, ranked firmly in the middle in earned runs allowed and in the bottom third in how often it allowed runners on base.

Since the teams' fortunes diverged Sept. 5, the Guardians’ hitting didn’t undergo an earth-shattering rejuvenation. It didn't need to — because no team has had better pitching. In that span they allowed allowed a league-low 34 earned runs. (Detroit, over the same span, has allowed 81.)

Detroit hasn't helped itself by forgetting how to score. Amid its slide over the last 13 games, it has scored more than three runs just four times.

Under the current MLB postseason format, six teams apiece from both the American and National leagues earn a spot in the postseason. The two division winners with the best records earn a first-round bye, and the four remaining teams play a best-of-three series where all three games are hosted by the higher seed.

Detroit still appears headed for the postseason. ESPN estimated its odds of qualifying at 70.6 percent through Thursday, when it was still five games ahead of Texas, the first team currently projected to be left out of the AL postseason.

But if the Tigers make it, they will have to shake off a month of historically bad baseball and refocus on the postseason. After being overtaken in the standings Wednesday for the first time since the spring, they were struggling to process a slide that could go down in history.

"That’s some of the best baseball I’ve seen in September, just in what they’ve been able to do," Tigers pitcher Jack Flaherty told reporters Wednesday. "They’ve done their job, and we haven’t done ours."
 

So the big debate on twitter/x right now is who the AL MVP should be. Judge has the better hitting numbers in most categories but I think it should be Raleigh. The value of what Raleigh is doing as a catcher is greater than what Judge is doing as an OF/DH.
 

GophersInIowa said:
So the big debate on twitter/x right now is who the AL MVP should be. Judge has the better hitting numbers in most categories but I think it should be Raleigh. The value of what Raleigh is doing as a catcher is greater than what Judge is doing as an OF/DH.
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Agreed. Big time.
 







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