Tigers (Jobe) vs Twins (Bradley): 08/31/26, 6:40 PM

[Brock Beauchamp]

Bradley takes the ball for the Twins tonight at Target Field as Minnesota hosts Jobe and the Tigers.

[Brock Beauchamp]

	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	TOT
Yoendrys Gómez	0	0	0	25	0	25
Travis Adams	0	0	26	0	0	26
Tommy Nance	0	0	0	0	0	0
Taylor Rogers	0	0	38	0	0	38
Kody Funderburk	18	0	18	0	0	36
Jeff Hoffman	6	0	0	0	13	19
Andrew Morris	16	0	0	27	0	43
A.J. Minter	0	0	0	20	0	20

[Mortimerkenny21]

Hopefully Bradley can have a dominating start with some run support behind him! Jenkins BOMB maybe?!? Go Twins!!

[Parfigliano]

Get that 10th win Taj.

[S Bart]

I will be interested to see who they call up on September 1. Wallner and Orze would be the easiest since they are already on the 40 man roster. My hope is Emma, obviously. Unless they really want a reliever, it should be Wallner (a chance to finally prove himself after setting the HR record for the Saints) and Emma. With this addition of hitters, I do not feel that this gimmick of Shelty keeping Jackson is needed. The wild card track is over. It is time to vet players and positions for the future.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

2 hours ago, Parfigliano said:

Get that 10th win Taj.

I'm strangly comfortable with this.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

While i'm thinking about it, how goes the state fair?

[Saxophone Joe]

OK. Hear me out…

If we win today, I think tomorrow’s game would qualify as playing a (semi)Meaningful Game in September. 

[HarmonK03]

58 minutes ago, S Bart said:

I will be interested to see who they call up on September 1. Wallner and Orze would be the easiest since they are already on the 40 man roster. My hope is Emma, obviously. Unless they really want a reliever, it should be Wallner (a chance to finally prove himself after setting the HR record for the Saints) and Emma. With this addition of hitters, I do not feel that this gimmick of Shelty keeping Jackson is needed. The wild card track is over. It is time to vet players and positions for the future.

I have a feeling they have moved on from Wallner at least in spirit.  His numbers call for him to be called up long before this.  I think he is the perfect candidate for a change of scenery.  I still like him and think there is something there, but it is at a point where I don't think it will work out with the Twins.

[Patzky]

4 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Bradley takes the ball for the Twins tonight at Target Field as Minnesota hosts Jobe and the Tigers.

I always think of those plant growth sticks when I hear the name Jobe. 

[Patzky]

27 minutes ago, Saxophone Joe said:

OK. Hear me out…

If we win today, I think tomorrow’s game would qualify as playing a (semi)Meaningful Game in September. 

Go Astros Go. 😁

[Saxophone Joe]

25 minutes ago, Patzky said:

Go Astros Go. 😁

Yes! I can tell my wife is close to staging an intervention on me.

”Honey, the playoffs you keep talking about…are they in the room with us?” 🤣

[Patzky]

8 minutes ago, Saxophone Joe said:

Yes! I can tell my wife is close to staging an intervention on me.

”Honey, the playoffs you keep taking about…are they in the room with us?” 🤣

We are surrounded by them. They're in the Sox drawer. The double stuff Orioles. Everywhere.

[ashbury]

1 hour ago, Patzky said:

I always think of those plant growth sticks when I hear the name Jobe. 

I think of elbow surgery.

[Mike Sixel]

1 hour ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

While i'm thinking about it, how goes the state fair?

I'll be in town and there this week. Looking forward to the Hmong corn dog thing. 

[Dave Borton]

2 hours ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

While i'm thinking about it, how goes the state fair?

Record crowd both Sat Sun

 

[Dave Borton]

2 hours ago, HarmonK03 said:

I have a feeling they have moved on from Wallner at least in spirit...

Classic Quad-A player.

[Dave Borton]

Will have the dial set to 97.1, Detroit. Dan Dlckerson/Bobby Scales. Clear, imaging on PBP; insightful color. One of the best pairings in MLB.

 

  

[mrmpls]

Batters MIN	B	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
KeaschallRF	R	9	41	15	.274	.754
Lee, B3B	S	22	73	7	.248	.739
Clemens2B	L	22	67	8	.236	.752
JeffersC	R	10	42	1	.270	.839
BellDH	S	17	83	2	.255	.739
LarnachLF	L	11	45	2	.266	.772
Lewis, R1B	R	13	46	14	.233	.695
Culpepper, KSS	R	3	6	0	.313	.843
JenkinsCF	L	0	1	1	.222	.633

[mrmpls]

2 hours ago, Patzky said:

I always think of those plant growth sticks when I hear the name Jobe. 

Taj     going  for win # 10  i always think Where have i heard that before,   is this the *9th  or 10 th time  ?   Zebby gonna beat him to 10 ?

[mrmpls]

6 hours ago, Parfigliano said:

Get that 10th win Taj.

10th  attempt ?

[Vanimal46]

3 hours ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

While i'm thinking about it, how goes the state fair?

Went yesterday and had a good time. The weather has been great with little to no threat of rain. 

[Mortimerkenny21]

2 hours ago, Patzky said:

We are surrounded by them. They're in the Sox drawer. The double stuff Orioles. Everywhere.

Double stuff Oriole.

[Mike Sixel]

19 minutes ago, mrmpls said:

Batters MIN	B	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
KeaschallRF	R	9	41	15	.274	.754
Lee, B3B	S	22	73	7	.248	.739
Clemens2B	L	22	67	8	.236	.752
JeffersC	R	10	42	1	.270	.839
BellDH	S	17	83	2	.255	.739
LarnachLF	L	11	45	2	.266	.772
Lewis, R1B	R	13	46	14	.233	.695
Culpepper, KSS	R	3	6	0	.313	.843
JenkinsCF	L	0	1	1	.222	.633

They called a real prospect up to sit....

[Whammy]

45 minutes ago, Dave Borton said:

Record crowd both Sat Sun

 

Record crowds were Thursday and Friday. Attendance this weekend was pretty average. 

[Dave Borton]

4 minutes ago, Whammy said:

Record crowds were Thursday and Friday. Attendance this weekend was pretty average. 

That is what happens when your wife is reading the news to you while you are looking at MLB standings. 🤫

[Whammy]

4 hours ago, S Bart said:

I will be interested to see who they call up on September 1. Wallner and Orze would be the easiest since they are already on the 40 man roster. My hope is Emma, obviously. Unless they really want a reliever, it should be Wallner (a chance to finally prove himself after setting the HR record for the Saints) and Emma. With this addition of hitters, I do not feel that this gimmick of Shelty keeping Jackson is needed. The wild card track is over. It is time to vet players and positions for the future.

I only really care about the hitter they call up. 

I'm hoping it'll be Rodriguez. He needs MLB experience and he seems healthy. It seems silly to kick the can down the road on his callup. I suspect they view Gabby Gonzalez as a place holder until Martin or Buxton come off the IL. 

As others have said, they seem to have mentally moved on from Wallner. I will say, even if that's the case, there's an argument for trying to showcase him a little bit in September to generate a tiny bit of trade interest in the offseason. 

Jackson seems locked in to the roster the rest of the year.
1) They seem to view him as, in some way, valuable
2) With rosters expanding for everyone, the odds of him getting through waivers again seem lower than the last time. Say what you will about his usefulness in 2026, but having him in the organization at least gives the Twins options for 2027. 

[S Bart]

3 hours ago, HarmonK03 said:

I have a feeling they have moved on from Wallner at least in spirit.  His numbers call for him to be called up long before this.  I think he is the perfect candidate for a change of scenery.  I still like him and think there is something there, but it is at a point where I don't think it will work out with the Twins.

I do not disagree. We will see on Tuesday. It is honestly a challenge to predict what they will do, and I have scratched my head trying to figure it out rationale at times this year. He could very well be taking the same path as Miranda.....we shall see. Although, I never thought that Ortiz would take the path he did when they traded him to the Red Sox.

[HarmonK03]

3 minutes ago, S Bart said:

I do not disagree. We will see on Tuesday. It is honestly a challenge to predict what they will do, and I have scratched my head trying to figure it out rationale at times this year. He could very well be taking the same path as Miranda.....we shall see. Although, I never thought that Ortiz would take the path he did when they traded him to the Red Sox.

Maybe it will be Tristan Gray, he might just be ready to turn the corner.

[S Bart]

1 minute ago, Whammy said:

I only really care about the hitter they call up. 

I'm hoping it'll be Rodriguez. He needs MLB experience and he seems healthy. It seems silly to kick the can down the road on his callup. I suspect they view Gabby Gonzalez as a place holder until Martin or Buxton come off the IL. 

As others have said, they seem to have mentally moved on from Wallner. I will say, even if that's the case, there's an argument for trying to showcase him a little bit in September to generate a tiny bit of trade interest in the offseason. 

Jackson seems locked in to the roster the rest of the year.
1) They seem to view him as, in some way, valuable
2) With rosters expanding for everyone, the odds of him getting through waivers again seem lower than the last time. Say what you will about his usefulness in 2026, but having him in the organization at least gives the Twins options for 2027. 

Good points....Jackson must be close to setting a team record for Twins team bench warming. The rationale seems to be using Jeffers as a pinch hitter when Caratini is catching. If something happens to Caratini after that point, Jackson will have to enter the game. It makes no sense. Interested that Jackson has a low overall batting average lifetime, but has batted about 330 in limited appearances. As others have pointed out, I believe that it is time to move on from Buxton as a full-time CF next year. He has been on the IL 3 times this year. With less than a month left in the season, why bring him back this year?