https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/540/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-recap-twins-5-white-sox-4-r10775/Box Score Ober: 4 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 1 BB, 4 K Home Runs: Sanó 3 (6) Top 3 WPA: Sanó .477, Polanco .432, Rogers .139 Win Probability Chart (via Fangraphs) Pineda Scratched, Pen Shuffled Michael Pineda was scratched from his start Tuesday, with Twins injury news coming thick a...10775Wed, 19 May 2021 03:33:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/how-improved-is-the-twins-defense-r10773/Defensive metrics have come a long way in recent years, so there are plenty of ways to judge a team's defensive value. Minnesota’s front office added pieces this winter to improve the team’s overall defense. Andrelton Simmons being signed allowed Jorge Polanco to move to a stronger position. Whi...10773Wed, 19 May 2021 02:37:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-recap-white-sox-16-twins-4-r10772/Box Score Starter: J.A. Happ 3.2 IP, 7 H, 6 ER, 3 BB, 1 K Home Runs: Josh Donaldson (5) Bottom 3 WPA: Happ (-.314), Law (-.091), Garlick (-.039) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) May 17, 2021, White Sox vs. Twins was supposed to be a matchup of two AL Central foes battling...10772Tue, 18 May 2021 03:02:03 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/have-the-twins-been-unlucky-in-2021-r10770/Pythagorean Winning Percentage One aspect that shows how the Twins have been unlucky is their Pythagorean winning percentage. For those unfamiliar, Pythagorean winning percentage is an estimate of a team’s winning percentage given their runs scored and runs allowed. For example, the Twins s...10770Tue, 18 May 2021 02:30:11 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-the-geek-ep-526-point-of-no-return-r10768/10768Mon, 17 May 2021 14:43:24 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/week-in-review-no-end-in-sight-r10767/Weekly Snapshot: Mon, 5/10 through Sun, 5/16 *** Record Last Week: 1-5 (Overall: 13-25) Run Differential Last Week: -18 (Overall: -20) Standing: 5th Place in AL Central (10.5 GB) Last Week's Game Recaps: Game 33 | CWS 9, MIN 3: White Sox Roll in Lopsided Series Opener Game 34...10767Mon, 17 May 2021 02:00:06 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-recap-athletics-7-twins-6-r10765/Boxscore Kenta Maeda: 4.0 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 3 ER, BB, 2 K Home Runs: Kepler (4), Simmons (2) Bottom 3 WPA: Rogers -.298, Maeda -.224, Polanco -.149 Win Probability Chart (via  FanGraphs) Despite some early offensive action, the Twins were plagued by a tough fifth inning and a cost...10765Sun, 16 May 2021 22:08:19 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-recap-twins-5-athletics-4-r10762/Boxscore José Berríos: 7.0 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 0 BB, 6 K Home Runs: Sanó (3) Top 3 WPA: Sanó .558, Donaldson .145, Cruz .141 Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) Well, that's one way to win a game. Trailing 4-1 entering the bottom of the eighth inning, the Minnesota Twin...10762Sat, 15 May 2021 23:03:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/analyzing-the-early-returns-from-matt-shoemaker-r10760/Admittedly, Shoemaker hasn’t had a great start to his Twins tenure posting a 1.43 WHIP and 6.00 ERA in 30 innings pitched. Especially after the worst outing of his career against Kansas City two weeks ago, Twins Twitter seemed ready to move on from the oft-injured veteran which I think was a lit...10760Sat, 15 May 2021 18:02:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/ranking-the-top-5-twins-by-trade-value-r10757/It's the middle of May and I'm writing about which key players hold the most trade value. I think something may have gone wrong recently... This isn't necessarily who could or will get traded (Cody Christie did a piece on that recently) but instead who holds the most value. For a team looki...10757Sat, 15 May 2021 16:32:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-recap-athletics-6-twins-1-r10758/Box Score Shoemaker: 6.0 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 2 BB, 4 K Home Runs: Donaldson (4) Bottom 3 WPA: Shoemaker -.166, Donaldson -132, Polanco -.092 Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) Shoemaker can’t benefit from the good defense behind him Matt Shoemaker had another awful start. The...10758Sat, 15 May 2021 03:15:38 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/a-broken-club-twins-put-in-place-by-white-hot-sox-r10756/At some point it’s no longer a tough start. It’s no longer something that’s bound to turn around. This is a bad baseball team; one that entered the season with the expectation of a third straight division crown and (finally) postseason success.  Much like Cleveland in 2019, these Twins have...10756Sat, 15 May 2021 01:01:01 +0000