The Twins have the second-best run differential in the division

[Brock Beauchamp]

Wow, the AL Central is at it again. While Cleveland and KC have winning records, they're not exactly lighting the world ablaze with their play.

[NotAboutWinning]

More proof the only real baseball statistic is W/L 🫤

[Richie the Rally Goat]

On 4/27/2025 at 7:25 AM, Brock Beauchamp said:

Wow, the AL Central is at it again. While Cleveland and KC have winning records, they're not exactly lighting the world ablaze with their play.

I was trying to wrap my head around that, especially when it was a positive differential. They have three 11 run games that boosts their runs per game from about 3 per game (if those three games were average) to almost 4 runs per game.

Every team has outliers, it’s not exactly fair analysis, but over the last few years they’ve needed almost 5 runs per game to win. This team needs runs badly.

[thelanges5]

On 4/27/2025 at 7:25 AM, Brock Beauchamp said:

Wow, the AL Central is at it again. While Cleveland and KC have winning records, they're not exactly lighting the world ablaze with their play.

Pitching is doing well overall. All we need is the batters to do something. Truly average four runs per game instead of going 11, 1, 1, 2. Any semblance of an offense would be sufficient

[TheLeviathan]

5 hours ago, thelanges5 said:

Pitching is doing well overall. All we need is the batters to do something. Truly average four runs per game instead of going 11, 1, 1, 2. Any semblance of an offense would be sufficient

Four?  You greedy fool!!!!

Three would have us above .500 at this point!

[Twins91]

The Twins record after at the end of the 5th inning after 28 games was 13-6-9 with 9 being ties. Then Rocco's analytics relief staff takes over

[Twins91]

The Twins starting pitchers are in  the top 3 in the majors in ERA. It's the relief staff that's being played with too much by Rocco. There's no consistency

[DocBauer]

A few runs scored, and games lost, skew the fact that the bullpen has largely been good. While ERA isn't a complete picture of competence, the Twins total team ERA since April 1st is below 3 I believe.

Having the 2nd best run differential in the division is skewed due to a few highly productive games that mask the 1 and 2 run games that have them with a losing record.

No Lewis, and Wallner out, and nothing from Correa except for a couple solid games really messes with the lineup. Bader has been more productive than expected. France has really been a solid contributor. Larnach has been a little inconsistent, but not bad. Buxton is always streaky, but has provided some solid production overall. And while Lee hasn't figured it out yet, he's showing signs of doing do.

But 3 key bats either out or floundering really makes it hard for this team to score runs. And just when Keaschall comes up to provide a spark, he's now out for 2 months.

Any chance the baseball gods cut us a break here at some point? K's are way down, contact is up, and the power is suddenly gone. I'd rather have the K's come back at this time and see a big power jump.

No offense to Bride, Gasper, and Clemons, who have actually contributed some here and there in SSSS, but I'd still love to see McCusker get a chance to see if he could hit .230 and slap the ball to and over the fence once in a while.

There's just no consistency in the offense. Lewis and Castro will be back soon. Wallner should be back about June 1st. And that can't happen soon enough at this point.

[Richie the Rally Goat]

13 hours ago, Twins91 said:

The Twins starting pitchers are in  the top 3 in the majors in ERA. It's the relief staff that's being played with too much by Rocco. There's no consistency

Here’s the thing with ERA, the runs have to be earned. Last year Twins pitchers were punished by ERA in part because the fielders behind them were statues. Lowest range metrics in MLB last year and lowest errors. They weren’t charged with errors because none of them could get to the dang ball.

this year, Buxton and Bader in the outfield swings the range metrics quite a bit ranked 12 in MLB (way too early for sample sizes, but I’m going with it anyways). But man that infield…

France is short, he’s scooping the digs OK, but a couple throws per week sail by a couple inches that 5’10” Carlos Santana would have stabbed. Lee and Correa are good, but that’s only two of the three, which brings us to the old school .981 fielding percentage, 25th in baseball with 21 errors tied for 7th most.

last year ERA was ballooned by the crap fielding, this year buoyed by it.