https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/539/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-the-geek-ep-527-now-or-never-r10797/10797Mon, 24 May 2021 02:04:22 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/week-in-review-way-down-in-the-hole-r10796/Weekly Snapshot: Mon, 5/17 through Sun, 5/23 *** Record Last Week: 4-4 (Overall: 17-29) Run Differential Last Week: -4 (Overall: -24) Standing: 5th Place in AL Central (9.5 GB) Last Week's Game Recaps: Game 39 | CWS 16, MIN 4: Sox Decimate Twins in Dispiriting Blowout Game 40...10796Mon, 24 May 2021 01:52:37 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-recap-twins-8-cleveland-5-r10794/Box Score J.A. Happ: 6 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, BB, 10 K Home Runs: Max Kepler (5), Kyle Garlick (2) Top 3 WPA: Kyle Garlick (.266), Max Kepler (.206), Taylor Rogers (.147) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) The Twins signed Kyle Garlick as a cheap offseason pick-up in hopes to...10794Sun, 23 May 2021 21:26:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-recap-cleveland-5-twins-3-r10790/Box Score Kenta Maeda: 5 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, BB, 6 K Home Runs: Miguel Sanó (8) Bottom 3 WPA: Miguel Sanó (-0.338), Alexander Colomé (-0.184), Josh Donaldson (-0.147) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs? The Twins faced more injury peril in the first inning of Saturday’s gam...10790Sun, 23 May 2021 00:01:25 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/lewis-thorpe-should-be-in-the-bullpen-r10789/It’s hard to really pick at Lewis Thorpe’s performance on the season. In fact, his performance so far isn’t the issue at all. He has a 3.86 ERA and 4.22 FIP which is much better than most of the current rotation. His SIERA, Skill Interactive ERA however tells a much different story. SIERA is mor...10789Sat, 22 May 2021 16:55:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-recap-twins-10-cleveland-0-r10787/Box Score Dobnak: 6.0 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 K Home Runs: Refsnyder (1) Top 3 WPA: Dobnak .170, Refsnyder .142, Kepler .071 Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) After seven unpleasant relief appearances that had him be optioned earlier this month, Randy Dobnak was called u...10787Sat, 22 May 2021 02:30:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/doubleheader-recap-minnesota-twins-split-2-gamer-with-angels-r10785/Game 1: Twins 1, Angels 7 Box Score Thorpe: 4.0 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 0 K Home runs: None Bottom 3 WPA: Thorpe -.317, Larnach -.101, Donaldson -.100 Win Probability Chart (Via FanGraphs) Game 2: Twins 6, Angels 3 Box Score Berríos: 5.0 IP, 3 H, 3 ER,...10785Fri, 21 May 2021 02:17:52 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/2021-is-an-outlier-for-the-minnesota-twins-r10783/There’s no way of putting this lightly, the Twins have been awful in 2021. After starting 5-2 they have fallen, tripped, and smacked their faces right on the proverbial sidewalk. Rocco, the front office, and players all deserve a differing part of the blame, but the results have been nothing sho...10783Thu, 20 May 2021 16:16:39 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-time-to-trade-jos%C3%A9-berr%C3%ADos-is-now-r10782/When a baseball team deems itself a seller at the trade deadline, the names that most often pop up are the players who are on expiring contracts. For the Twins, those names are Nelson Cruz, Andrelton Simmons, J.A. Happ and Hansel Robles, among others. Those players will undoubtedly be in trade r...10782Thu, 20 May 2021 15:15:34 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-has-cursed-these-2021-minnesota-twins-r10780/It took the Boston Red Sox 86 years to break the Curse of the Bambino and the Chicago Cubs 71 years to break the Curse of the Billy Goat. Let’s hope whatever’s happening to the 2021 Minnesota Twins it doesn’t loom over the team for that long. Of course, revisionist history will apply any cu...10780Thu, 20 May 2021 01:34:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-recap-white-sox-2-twins-1-r10778/ Shoemaker: 6 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 4 BB, 2 K
Home Runs: Cruz (10)
10778Wed, 19 May 2021 19:48:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/baseball%E2%80%99s-unwritten-rules-are-hurting-the-game-r10777/How Did We Get Here? On Monday night, the Twins were getting blown out by the White Sox in the ninth inning. So instead of wasting another bullpen arm, Rocco Baldelli turned to Willians Astudillo to finish out the game. This is the third time La Tortuga has been used as a pitcher and his se...10777Wed, 19 May 2021 18:38:02 +0000