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With the Twins on the grid today, I had the quickest turnaround for a player debuting with the team, Genesis Cabrera, who was a surprise in the box score from yesterday. It was a hell of a day for me on the unique players-I’m at 1475 thanks to seven new additions today; the entire top row of...

Ope, you recently mentioned your deep dive on All-Star rosters, so I went down that rabbit hole today and just mining the ‘70s was a boon to my unique player pursuit-step on up Pat Kelly and Don Buford! The expansion in 1969 and 1977 brought some dubious All-Stars into the fold throughout...

While there's been a drumbeat to get Mickey Gasper out of the lineup, I say leave him in--in this season of suckiness, embrace the suck, as something historic could be afoot. Here are the 10 lowest batting averages in Twins history (minimum 50 AB's): 1988 Tom Nieto .067 (60 AB's) 2014 Pedro...

Morton is a 41 year old whose ERA coming into this game was nearly 5.50. Jamie Moyer’s thinking about coming out of retirement to get a crack at this lineup.

The timing of ESPN rolling out the fan misery index today is eerie: https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/45344992/sports-misery-index

Well, this is f’ing depressing: https://www.startribune.com/live-pohlad-family-will-not-sell-minnesota-twins/601454306

All Hail Tony Fernandez, one of the underrated IG gods! 2000 hits: check 40+ WAR (career): check All-Star: check (with Toronto and San Diego) 200 hits: check (with Toronto) .300 average: check (with Toronto) Gold Glove: check (Toronto) 5+ WAR (season): check (Toronto) Teams played for: Blue...

It’s a really small sample size, but Griffin Jax’s start with the Rays has been inauspicious. He gave up a 3 run home run to Cal Raleigh the other night, which lost the game for the Rays and in another outing he gave up a run, so his ERA’s over 10 with the Rays and pushing near 5.00 for the...

A fascinating subplot of this season for me, particularly following the fire sale, has been the makeup of the bullpen and the mysterious journeymen that have found their way into a Twins uniform. I'm not including any homegrown products in the following list, this is a compilation of the veteran...

Today's board frustrated me, as the combination of Gold Glove, Silver Slugger and pitching categories really elevates my score and doesn't typically bring about new players--I really need to do some deep diving on that triad so I can move away from using Jim Kaat, Mike Hampton, Greg Maddux, and...

I It’d be wise for one/both to do so-Walker Jenkins is knocking on the door: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/twins-top-prospects-walker-jenkins-kaelen-culpepper-are-crushing-double-a/ar-AA1K28od

You and I shared Ron LeFlore today (a digression--does anyone remember the made for TV movie about LeFlore in the early '80s about his journey from prison to MLB? It barely registers, but I recall watching it as a kid) It was a banner day for newcomers on my end, as I picked up 5 newbies...

Alright, call me a cock-eyed optimist (or Billy Mumphrey, for Seinfeld fans), but maybe the near future won't be awful? -new owners (who won't be skinflints) -a lineup built around Buxton, Keaschall, Lewis, Lee, Jeffers, Larnach/Wallner (perhaps) -the emergence of homegrown prospects Walker...

Same as you, I was befuddled by seeing those names in the box scores, which was followed shortly by my addiction--who else had they played for in the majors? If they stick around long enough for me to remember their names, I've got two more players to roll with in Immaculate Grid.

I used Jose Canseco for that category today and was surprised that he was only 2% by the algorithm.

When we do reach 1500 players, we will have covered slightly more than 7% of the entirety of MLB players all-time (I was curious). It’s actually a higher percentage than I expected.

I also used Jeffers for the same purpose-you’re going to leave me in the dust soon, I am at 1426 players.

Was this the same Crazy George who worked Vikings games in the '80s at the Metrodome?

I guess you’ll just have to Jim Bibby this month: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bibby Bip Roberts brought me to 1425 players today, but I was happier to use Joe Nolan as player #1424. When visiting my Mom over the summer and shuffling through some of my old baseball cards, I was reminded...

Whew, Bleed you weren’t kidding-this was a bad choice for me, trying to stave off the last remnants of jet lag—I’ve got work to do, but it’s as if someone just put the sleeping pill in my drink. From the looks on the players faces, they could have been at an insurance seminar.