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Game Thread: Twins @ Cleveland 4:10 PM PST (6:10 PM CST) 9/13/2019

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Blake
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This is the city, Cleveland, Ohio. A city unlike any other, in that two titans of baseball will be meeting in a head to head contest. Some may call it destiny, that these two team would meet like this

Richie the Rally Goat
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I helped my in-laws move after work tonight. I never want to move again!

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Cleveland had a really nice trade deadline.

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I find it curious that a team based about 75 miles away from THE Mayo Clinic has had such trouble keeping a relatively young roster healthy. Sure, Cruz is old. But the roster besides him is pretty young. Young guys are supposed to heal faster.

 

From a season perspective, it seems like this is more an issue of lots of injuries *at the same time* than one of lots of injuries *overall*. This team was remarkably healthy (especially the pitchers) until about mid-August, and now we have everyone going down together.

 

In some ways, this is more of a challenge because instead of outfielder #4 seeing regular action as #1, #2, and #3 are out one at a time, we are now seeing outfielders #6 and #7 in the lineup every day, because #1 (Buxton), #2 (Kepler), #4 (Cave), and #5 (Gonzalez) are all out at the same time.

 

Although it's brutal on us right now, it's helped us in the first 4 months. We might have 5 more wins at this point than we would have with a more normal pattern of injuries spread through the season. So instead of protecting a 5-game lead with a AAA lineup we'd be battling even-up with our usual stars.

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Regarding injuries, believe it or not it could be worse. The Yankees have 16 injured players, Padres have 15, Phillies 14, Pirates 12 ... The Twins are right about in the middle at 8.

 

And Sano, Kepler, Adrianza and Cave are coming back shortly, right? Gonzales is listed as "out indefinitely," which sounds bad; anybody have an update on him?

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