All Things 2026 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread

[Gopher_In_NYC]

I don't understand the need in todays world to send scouts to watch a MLB guy play. Especially a veteran like Jeffers.

I’m guessing it’s because of the injury and the scouts trying to to mage sure he’s “seaworthy”; an AL EAst bidding war would be fun

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Injury Update
Per Hayes’ column Able & Festa are, as already knew, fine for 2026.

Now for the rest of the story -

Connor Prielipp (blister) struck out three over three scoreless innings at Triple-A St. Paul in a promising tuneup Sunday. Prielipp, who went on the 15-day IL on July 9, is scheduled to throw a bullpen before the Twins determine his next step. He could slot into the team’s rotation at some point in the upcoming homestand.



• Cole Sands is closer to returning after striking out three over two scoreless innings Friday for St. Paul. Out since May 2 with a right forearm strain, Sands still needs to appear in games on two out of three days before he is eligible to return.

“He’s been down for a while,” Zoll said. “We’re trying to get him fully built back, workload-wise, and check off a number of boxes.”

• Marco Raya (right shoulder impingement) is scheduled for a two-inning, 35-pitch outing Tuesday after pitching an inning for St. Paul on Saturday. Raya’s velocity this weekend was in line with his season average.

 

[TRF Guy]

Ryan getting lit up like a Christmas tree

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Ryan getting lit up like a Christmas tree

 

[TRF Guy]

6-2 and 4 homers for the Guardians

 

[kg21]

I'd be in sell mode

 

[howeda7]

Extra long break for Joe Ryan was a mistake. Should have just pitched him Friday or Saturday.

 

[Breakin' The Plane]

2025 Twins were right around .500 at the break too...and then lost 5 series in a row.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Had to be tipping his pitches

 

[Married@SiebertField]

Twins by all appearances were in good shape after winning the opener against the Cubs with Bradley and Ryan starting two of the next three games. Need to suck it up from the kishkes and win the bullpen game tomorrow and even the series.

 

[GophersInIowa]

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Extra long break for Joe Ryan was a mistake. Should have just pitched him Friday or Saturday.

FWIW -

He pitched 6 innings in his regular start against the Angels in 7/11.

He pitched 1 inning in the AS game on 7/14.

He commented in Hayes’ column today that because of the above he missed his regular bullpen day.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Kendrys is listed as the probable starter for tonight’s tilt.

 

[GopherVotary]

I'd be in sell mode

With series against the A’s and Royals coming up, they may be able to get back in the WC picture. But unless they win two of the next three at Cleveland, it appears another fire sale would be likely (and appropriate).

 

[GophersInIowa]

Unless they completely bomb the next 10 days, I still think they will do a bit of both (buying and selling). They'll certainly entertain moving Jeffers if they get a good offer. Larnach maybe as well. But may also try to add another bullpen arm or two. Won't be super exciting however.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Unless they completely bomb the next 10 days, I still think they will do a bit of both (buying and selling). They'll certainly entertain moving Jeffers if they get a good offer. Larnach maybe as well. But may also try to add another bullpen arm or two. Won't be super exciting however.

The Twins thus far in July have the 10th best team bullpen ERA, per Mike Pertello of Baseball Savant. The radio broadcast has some good hardcore info in their pregame show

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

https://x.com/UnderdogMLB/status/2079425557142679671?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^2079425557142679671|twgr^dc3b976fcde036c8faa0faf775e415ba949c707e|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7462089/2026/07/21/athletics-diamondbacks-joshua-kuroda-grauer-surgery/


Video of an As hitter who took a direct shot to the nards, played another inning and then had surgery for a ruptured nard - the video isn’t pretty.

Joshua Kuroda-Grauer, A’s hottest hitter, undergoes emergency surgery for ruptured testicle

In just 16 games with the Athletics, Joshua Kuroda-Grauer posted a 175 OPS+ and 0.6 bWAR, making his absence particularly unfortunate.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Go was sent down today and Jack Anderson gets his shot

 

[GophersInIowa]

The odds of turning two 5-4-3 triple plays in the same game have to be insanely low so I tried figuring it out the best I could. There have been 740 recorded triple plays since 1876, only 95 of which were 5-4-3. I've seen different numbers as far as games played since 1876 so for fun will just go with a rough estimate of 220,000.

So based on history, the chances of a 5-4-3 triple play occurring is 95 divided by 220,000. That comes to 0.043%. The chances of it happening twice in a game using that number is 0.000018% or about 1 in 5.55 million. So should only happen once every 5 1/2 million games played.

Edit: I realized afterwards that I should have used 94 as the number instead of 95 as it's actually only happened in 94 games, but whatever. Close enough.

Well how about that…

 

[GophersInIowa]

The Twins have competition for the worst baserunning