All Things 2024 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread

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Sands is a mess of a relief pitcher right now. Doing the same substitution as yesterday that didn't work is the definition of insanity!
 

I don’t know how Rocco watches the twins bullpen on a daily basis? Maybe it’s just baseball bullpens in general are anything but lights out. I only see the twins issues because I watch mainly the twins.
 

jham13 said:
Sands is a mess of a relief pitcher right now. Doing the same substitution as yesterday that didn't work is the definition of insanity!
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We got limited options today, after yesterday’s mess.

Which RH would you have brought in instead is Sands?

All’s well, which ends well, as Funkmestier did his job.
 

From the Parkinglot said:
I don’t know how Rocco watches the twins bullpen on a daily basis? Maybe it’s just baseball bullpens in general are anything but lights out. I only see the twins issues because I watch mainly the twins.
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Twins had excellent pen numbers in April, remember ?, and they’re scuffling thus far in May.

Gotta take the crooked with the straights.
 










Like the Sands through an hourglass, so are the Days of Our Bullpens.

at least there is a day off on Monday, so they can re-set the Pen for the Yankees series.

I will predict at least one bullpen move will be made - just not sure who it will involve.
 

The AL Central is arguably the second strongest MLB division, behind only the AL East. Could be a real interesting pennant chase this season.
 

GopherVotary said:
The AL Central is arguably the second strongest MLB division, behind only the AL East. Could be a real interesting pennant chase this season.
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I tend not to get too excited about division races until July. I’ve seen teams fall off the table once May is over. With that said I hope it is a tight race to the end
 

GopherVotary said:
The AL Central is arguably the second strongest MLB division, behind only the AL East. Could be a real interesting pennant chase this season.
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The White Sox can also serve as fodder to help an AL Central team (or 2) gain a Wild Card berth, just as the A's helped out the Rangers.
 

a Royce Lewis update - courtesy of The Athletic:

Royce Lewis is going stir-crazy.

He feels ready to ramp up activities but is still in a holding pattern.

Now 6 1/2 weeks into his rehab from a severe right quad strain, Lewis feels like he’s healthier than a lot of his teammates who are on the active roster. But an MRI last week showed he’s still experiencing inflammation that’s preventing him from full clearance. Even so, Lewis is hitting in the cage, taking grounders and running at 85 percent.

“All signs point to, I’m healthy,” Lewis said. “Why are we doing this? That’s why it’s really hard. I know that they’re just trying to take care of me. But I think because of the past history, they’re going to overdo that. And that’s what I’m worried about.”

“It’s hard to be on the IL and there’s nothing else to do,” Baldelli said. “He’s not coming back until he’s completely healthy. He’s getting close. He’s almost there.”

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some Starting pitching stats - looking at rotation since SWR joined the starters:

Entering Sunday, Twins starters were 11-1 with a 3.28 ERA in 107 innings pitched since the swap was made. The innings pitched ranked third in the major leagues, the ERA rated ninth and the team’s strikeouts per nine innings (10.01) and walks per nine (1.6) were tops in the majors.

(innings pitched by starters ranked 3rd in MLB since April 22. "But Rocco pulls the starters too soon.......")
 

The Twins blew an 8-0 second-inning lead at Yankee Stadium on this date in 1985.

They still led 8-6 when Ron Davis gave up a two-out, three-run walk-off homer to Don Mattingly.

It was the fourth-straight game in which the Twins gave up a ninth-inning homer, after Baltimore's Fred Lynn homered in the ninth inning in three-straight games. (Two walk-offs.)
 

TRF Guy said:
The Twins blew an 8-0 second-inning lead at Yankee Stadium on this date in 1985.

They still led 8-6 when Ron Davis gave up a two-out, three-run walk-off homer to Don Mattingly.

It was the fourth-straight game in which the Twins gave up a ninth-inning homer, after Baltimore's Fred Lynn homered in the ninth inning in three-straight games. (Two walk-offs.)
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So Ron Davis was really worse than Emilio Pagan?
 


TRF Guy said:
He was so bad. I remember his pitching like it was yesterday 🤮
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The first closer I can remember is Reardon. The worst since then is between Pagan and Dave Stevens. But the team stunk when Stevens was the closer so no one really cared when he blew a save. LaTroy Hawkins also wasn't good in that role early on, ironically.
 



howeda7 said:
So Ron Davis was really worse than Emilio Pagan?
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Pagano was closer to Gossage than Ron Davis comparatively. Davis stained the early years of my Twins fandom.

Lynn, Rice and Yaz...how many OFs were better in the history of the game?
 


GophersInIowa said:
Updated Top 100 prospects list:
8. Walker Jenkins
16. Brooks Lee
33. Emmanuel Rodriguez
86. Gabriel Gonzalez

www.mlb.com

Top 100 Baseball Prospects

The Official Site of Major League Baseball
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I admittedly lost touch with the prospect game (outside of the high end guys) years ago - is there a general consensus among the experts as far as where our prospect pool ranks among other teams?
 

Twins currently ranked # 8 in MLB Power Rankings and Yankees are 5th, so this series will be a good measuring stick. Guards are 7.

www.mlb.com

Power Rankings: This team is No. 1 for the 1st time ever

We do not, unfortunately, have a comprehensive database of every single MLB.com Power Rankings since we started doing these more than a decade ago. Sorry about that. Maybe we’ll make an intern figure it out this offseason. But it seems a pretty safe bet that the Orioles, even during their
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8. Twins (previously: 8)
Season high: 8 | Season low: 23
The Twins’ tear continues: They won their sixth straight series in Toronto this weekend, adding to the cavalcade of woes north of the border. Also, Byron Buxton could be back as soon as this week. Let’s see how far this (sausage-aided?) momentum can carry Minnesota: Next week begins with a visit from that old October nemesis, the Yankees.
 

the Ron Davis mentions sent me to Baseball reference.

11 years in MLB with the Yankees, Twins, Cubs, Giants and Dodgers.

He was actually pretty good with the Yankees: 27-10 overall record with a 2.93 ERA, 22 saves with an ERA+ of 133. was 4th in Rookie of the Year voting in 1979 when he went 14-2 with a 2.85 ERA as a set-up man.

and then...........

with the Twins: 19-40 overall record with a 4.51 ERA, 108 saves and an ERA+ of 95.

some other numbers: H/9 went from 7.9 with Yankees to 9.1 with Twins. HR/9 went from 0.6 with NY to 1.1 with MN. BB/9 went from 2.7 with NY to 4.4 with MN. and - in 1984, Davis tied a record with 14 blown saves for the Twins!

on the plus side, the Twins got Greg Gagne from the Yanks in the Davis Trade. Roy Smalley to NY for Gagne, Davis and Paul Boris. (Boris was a pitcher. to the best of my knowledge, he did not have a girlfriend named Natasha)
 

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