All Things 2026 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread

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Breakin' The Plane said:
That's putting an awful lot of faith in a couple catching prospects that haven't proven anything yet. As noted earlier in this thread Alex Jackson was the #6 overall pick and one of the best hitting prospects in 2014.
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A team like the Twins has to be strategic with their spending. It wouldn’t make sense IMO to use the 3rd pick in the draft on a catcher and then spend a good amount on a longer contract for a catcher as well.

There’s no guarantee any of them will ever be great but they kinda have to plan on at least one of them panning out at this point.

Bringing back Jeffers on a 1 or 2 year deal would be great but there’s little chance that happens.
 






Interesting stats/notes -

In 15 1/3 innings, Angels starters struck out one Twins.

Andrew Morris has 17 scoreless innings after today’s efforts.

Larnach’s 9th inning dinger ended Zeferjohn’s 15 inning scoreless streak.

5th straight series win and thst makes 8 out of 9😎
 
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Unregistered User said:
I was thinking the same thing as the third or fourth ball dropped right in front of him.

He’s hitting well enough to garner some interest, but I’m one of those guys who still values defense, so I’m fine with him leaving
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Bell won't be back, so he could be primary DH next year. But I'm not sure it's worth $6-7 million for that when there's other options in house.
 

GophersInIowa said:
A team like the Twins has to be strategic with their spending. It wouldn’t make sense IMO to use the 3rd pick in the draft on a catcher and then spend a good amount on a longer contract for a catcher as well.

There’s no guarantee any of them will ever be great but they kinda have to plan on at least one of them panning out at this point.

Bringing back Jeffers on a 1 or 2 year deal would be great but there’s little chance that happens.
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Between Lackey and Tait, it's reasonable to assume one of them can be the opening day catcher in 2028 if not mid-2027. It doesn't make sense to pay Jeffers 4/$90 or whatever and block them. Especially when you already have Caratini/Jackson to cover 2027. I'd much rather give Joe Ryan 4/$95 or so than Jeffers.
 




Ope3 said:
This is my favorite ESPN coverage ever of the Home Run Derby.
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Agreed

When I found out it was exclusively on Netflix I knew that I would not watch one second of it

I’m not giving them another set of eyeballs that tells them that’s ok to stream everything

Total bullshit
 

howeda7 said:
Between Lackey and Tait, it's reasonable to assume one of them can be the opening day catcher in 2028 if not mid-2027. It doesn't make sense to pay Jeffers 4/$90 or whatever and block them. Especially when you already have Caratini/Jackson to cover 2027. I'd much rather give Joe Ryan 4/$95 or so than Jeffers.
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You keep throwing out these absurd contracts that you think Jeffers is going to get. He's not getting anywhere near 4/$90. That would make him the highest paid catcher in baseball next season by $5 million.

4/$50 would make him tied for the 4th highest paid catcher in baseball next season, and I'll be shocked if he even gets close to that much.
 





Ope3 said:
Hey hey, my my...Brooks Lee Career WAR is fully out of the red and into the black.

+0.1 Career
+1.0 2026

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I think he got as high as +0.2 for Career WAR, but at the All Star Break Brooks Lee is back to 0.0.

At +0.9 for 2026.

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Ope3 said:
I think he got as high as +0.2 for Career WAR, but at the All Star Break Brooks Lee is back to 0.0.

At +0.9 for 2026.

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They said on the radio he and his fiancé are doing their wedding vpkans as he’s getting hitched on November 14; same date as Kreidler’s nuptials.
 


coolhandgopher said:
During this All-Star break, if you’re looking to fill your baseball diet, I can recommend this podcast on Bert Blyleven’s career, a thorough and insightful trek in which I learned a lot about Circle Me. (the podcast is a recent discovery for me, and I am finding it really enjoyable)
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The Blyleven trade back to Minnesota on August 1, 1985 had to be the most encouraging trade in my entire Twins fandom up to that point. It immediately bolstered the rotation giving them a solid 1-2 with Viola.

There was hope.

Having traded so many All Stars at the end of the Griffith era, they were getting one back in the beginning of the Pohlad regime.
 

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