https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/535/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/jorge-polanco-apology/May 5th was a bad day. I attended the Twins game at Target Field and watched a lifeless team sink to 11-18 with a 3-1 loss against the last-place Rangers. Polanco and Max Kepler went a combined 0-for-8 with six strikeouts. I came home grumpy, and lamented that the Twins had seemingly founded the...11217Fri, 20 Aug 2021 04:11:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-score-yankees-7-twins-5-andrew-albers-jorge-polanco/Box Score John Gant: 3 1/3 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 4 K Home Runs: Jake Cave (2), Miguel Sanó (21) Bottom 3 WPA: John Gant -.211, Josh Donaldson -.107, Luis Arraez -.081 Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but the Minnesota Twins fel...11218Fri, 20 Aug 2021 02:02:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/luis-and-the-legends-a-twins-great-coming-r11215/Never a top prospect or one worthy of national attention, Arraez has long gone about his business quietly. He put up a .331 average across more than 300 minor league games, and the Venezuelan has continued to replicate that success at the Major League level. He’s a second baseman by trade, but n...11215Thu, 19 Aug 2021 21:38:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-score-twins-8-cleveland-7-jorge-polanco/Box Score Starter: Thorpe 1.1 IP, 1 H,  2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 1 K Home Runs: Sano (20) Top 3 WPA: Duffey (0.485), Coulombe (0.485), Sano (0.299) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) Lewis Thorpe Makes Return to Twins Rotation For the first time in nearly three months, Lewis T...11213Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:29:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/cleveland-twins-bailey-ober-rob-refsnyder/Box Score Bailey Ober: 6.0 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 3 K (75.3% strikes) Home Runs: none Bottom 3 WPA: Refsnyder -.222, Donaldson -.182, Sanó -.166 Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) The first half of this game saw a lot of action from both offenses, but, ultimately, the two young...11210Wed, 18 Aug 2021 03:19:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/hard-lessons-learned-in-trevor-larnach%E2%80%99s-rookie-campaign-r11207/EARLY CALL-UP When the season began, Larnach wasn't expected to be a significant contributor during the 2021 campaign. There was certainly a hope that he would make his big-league debut in the season's second half, but like many parts of the Twins season, things didn't go exactly to plan. Minn...11207Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:24:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-score-twins-5-cleveland-4-jorge-polanco/Box Score Starter: Griffin Jax 6.0 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 3 K Home Runs: Max Kepler (16), Ryan Jeffers (11) Top 3 WPA: Thielbar (.486), Polanco(.241), Colome (.144) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) In case you missed it, the Twins have been pretty good as of late. They have...11208Tue, 17 Aug 2021 04:04:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-the-geek-ep-539-whats-gotten-into-this-team-r11205/11205Mon, 16 Aug 2021 13:07:03 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/week-review-twins-rookies-jax-ober/Weekly Snapshot: Mon, 8/9 thru Sun, 8/15 *** Record Last Week: 4-2 (Overall: 52-66) Run Differential Last Week: -1 (Overall: -74) Standing: 4th Place in AL Central (16.0 GB) Last Week's Game Recaps: Game 113 | CWS 11, MIN 1: Sox Build Huge Early Lead in Laugher Game 114 | MIN...11204Mon, 16 Aug 2021 01:49:27 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-score-twins-5-rays-4-max-kepler-charlie-barnes/Box Score (add link) SP: Charlie Barnes: 5.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K (73 pitches, 44 strikes (60.3%)) Home Runs: None  Top 3 WPA: Max Kepler (.327), Caleb Thielbar (.232), Charlie Barnes (.200) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) Patience is a Virtue Luis Patino was th...11202Sun, 15 Aug 2021 21:50:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-shortstop-2022-polanco-gordon-martin-lewis/When the Twins signed veteran Andrelton Simmons to a one-year, $10.5MM deal last offseason, it seemed like a perfect fit for a club that needed their top prospect to get an extra year of seasoning under his belt. A torn ACL and an anti-vaxxer later and what seemed like a perfect fit has turned i...11198Sun, 15 Aug 2021 11:39:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-score-twins-12-rays-0-brent-rooker/Box Score Kenta Maeda: 6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K (76 pitches) Home Runs: Max Kepler (15), Luis Arraez (2), Rooker (6), Ryan Jeffers (10) Top 3 WPA: Maeda .153, Luis Arraez .108, Mitch Garver .097 Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) Saturday's win for the Twins was o...11199Sun, 15 Aug 2021 02:43:00 +0000