Twins (Matthews) vs Brewers (Drohan): 08/07/26, 6:40 PM

[Brock Beauchamp]

The Twins visit the Brewers as Matthews takes on Drohan at American Family Field.

[Brock Beauchamp]

	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	TOT
Yoendrys Gómez	19	0	0	0	18	37
Travis Adams	0	0	20	0	0	20
Tommy Nance	0	0	0	7	0	7
Taylor Rogers	0	0	14	0	0	14
Kody Funderburk	0	0	14	0	20	34
Jeff Hoffman	0	0	0	11	0	11
Andrew Morris	0	0	0	0	13	13
A.J. Minter	19	0	0	12	0	31

[sampleSizeOfOne]

19 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	TOT
Yoendrys Gómez	19	0	0	0	18	37
Travis Adams	0	0	20	0	0	20
Tommy Nance	0	0	0	7	0	7
Taylor Rogers	0	0	14	0	0	14
Kody Funderburk	0	0	14	0	20	34
Jeff Hoffman	0	0	0	11	0	11
Andrew Morris	0	0	0	0	13	13
A.J. Minter	19	0	0	12	0	31

Reverse alphabetical order based on first name?

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Reverse alphabetical order based on first name?

Huh. Maybe? It's updated programmatically now.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

11 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Huh. Maybe? It's updated programmatically now.

Works for me.

(sorry for paying attention to details that don't actually matter.)

[Brock Beauchamp]

3 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Works for me.

(sorry for paying attention to details that don't actually matter.)

Oh no, please share. Now I'm interested if it's doing that for a reason, or if it's just coincidence. I *think* it's probably coincidence, but I'm not sure.

[Craig Arko]

1 hour ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Reverse alphabetical order based on first name?

Checking back at a couple of archived game threads from a month and two ago this looks like what it does.

[MMMordabito]

Well, they shuffled the deck chairs on the Titanic. I don't have any confidence in these next 12 games. If you offered me 5-7, I'd probably take it.

[Mortimerkenny21]

A challenging series! Do we have the juice to compete?!? 🤷‍♂️ Go Twins!!

[nicksaviking]

The Twins added another lefty in Minter to the pen, I don't get why Matthews is still in the rotation over Rojas.

And I'm seriously not giving up on Matthews, I REALLY want to see what he looks like in late inning relief. I think he's this team's future closer; he can drop his changeup which doesn't work and his four seamer is going to be touching 99 MPH once he's a one inning guy.

[jaimedude]

I luke Rojas but he to me isn't stretched out, built up to pitch more than 3 to 4 innings right now. 

[nicksaviking]

16 minutes ago, jaimedude said:

I luke Rojas but he to me isn't stretched out, built up to pitch more than 3 to 4 innings right now. 

Yeah, I think it's been bad load management regarding Rojas. Looks like he's at 51 innings pitched across MLB/AAA this year, and he threw 69 innings last year. You'd like to think he was going to be pushed to 100+ innings and he's not going to get anywhere close.

But mostly, I want to get Matthews in the pen and experienced for the role before next year. It often doesn't go very smoothly when these guys are only told they're no longer starters when they report to camp.

[chpettit19]

Zebby the injury replacement for Ryan? I haven't seen any official announcement that Ryan is hitting the IL, but I have to assume that's what Zebby being back in the bigs means, right?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Oh no, please share. Now I'm interested if it's doing that for a reason, or if it's just coincidence. I *think* it's probably coincidence, but I'm not sure.

I have no idea how it's implemented, but things are usually more efficient if there is an order, and this sounds like the result of choosing an order as a default behavior at a low level of implementation when one has no idea how it will get used. I expect somewhere there is a way to specify the order when people care. So if you are bored and want to look under the hood at the programatic process, i'm sure there's a point where you could trivially tell it to sort differently just before displaying it, and it will?

(been almost 2 decades since i collected a vaguely programming related pay check, so i got no specific, direct or current wisdom to impart... and nominally i was by edumacation on the theoretical side, so what do i know. Anyone know yet for sure if P=NP or not? Or can i continue my rip van winkle life style?)

Now i'm curious how it handled the roster changes over the past few weeks. Was it able to include the recent work of pitchers now available but who pitched recently for other teams? Or pitchers who'd pitched recently for us but now on other teams?

But i'm too lazy to do more than ponder in a long winded post... Sorry.

 

But i digress... Happy Culpepper day!

[Chris Hove]

In the 19 games since the All-Star break, the Twins have scored 23 runs (1.21 per game) against opponents' SPs. It's not going to get easier against 2 of the best SP staffs in baseball (Mil, Phi). Maybe something will change, but it would be nice to see the Twins score early, chase some of these starters, and make it a long series for their relievers. Here's to hoping........

[wesnewy]

So nice to see a top prospect called up! I hope we win!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

12 minutes ago, wesnewy said:

So nice to see a top prospect called up! I hope we win!

Me too

[Chris Hove]

Joe Ryan officially to the IL. Zebby Mathews called back up. Waiting to hear the move for KC; it should come soon.

[Chris Hove]

Official roster moves, hot off the press.

 

[Chris Hove]

Also, Cody Lawyerson cleared waivers and re-signed with the Twins on a minor league deal.

[Mike Sixel]

Have I ever heard of Taylor Rashi?

[Parfigliano]

4 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

Have I ever heard of Taylor Rashi?

I admit I haven't.

[Vanimal46]

10 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

Have I ever heard of Taylor Rashi?

I couldn’t point him out in a 2 person police lineup 

[Vanimal46]

On this day in 2007 Barry Bonds broke the all time career HR record 

[Mike Sixel]

Minnesota acquired Rashi from the D-backs in a cash swap back in June after Arizona had designated him for assignment. Despite what was then a dire need for bullpen arms, he never got a look in the big leagues. Rashi pitched 17 innings for the Twins’ top affiliate in St. Paul and logged a 4.76 ERA, 28.7% strikeout rate and 11.3% walk rate.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/08/twins-designate-taylor-rashi-for-assignment.html

 

[umterp23]

Throwing Culpepper right in and batting 7th. I like it

[sampleSizeOfOne]

3 minutes ago, umterp23 said:

Throwing Culpepper right in and batting 7th. I like it

Who are the 6 batting in front of him?

[mrmpls]

MartinLF	R	2	21	10	.236	.662
JeffersC	R	10	36	1	.281	.885
Lewis, R2B	R	13	38	10	.233	.735
BellDH	S	14	65	1	.246	.720
ClemensRF	L	19	53	8	.234	.758
KeaschallCF	R	6	33	13	.263	.714
Culpepper, KSS	R	-	-	-	-	-
Caratini1B	S	7	37	0	.226	.650
Kreidler3B	R	5	25	4	.232	.679

Lineups subject to change

[mrmpls]

Just now, mrmpls said:

MartinLF	R	2	21	10	.236	.662
JeffersC	R	10	36	1	.281	.885
Lewis, R2B	R	13	38	10	.233	.735
BellDH	S	14	65	1	.246	.720
ClemensRF	L	19	53	8	.234	.758
KeaschallCF	R	6	33	13	.263	.714
Culpepper, KSS	R	-	-	-	-	-
Caratini1B	S	7	37	0	.226	.650
Kreidler3B	R	5	25	4	.232	.679

Lineups subject to change

Whats the fascination  with Caratini at 1b?   Shelton ever asked ?  Leave Lewis there Pleez!! 

[Mike Sixel]

Just now, mrmpls said:

Whats the fascination  with Caratini at 1b?   Shelton ever asked ?  Leave Lewis there Pleez!! 

Caratini over Lee makes zero sense to me....zero.