Twins 13, Red Sox 6: This Team is Hot

Eric Orze once again leads the Twins to victory.

6-0 when he pitches. 

Those first two innings were nuts! 

This is a fun team to watch right now and should get more exciting as Prielipp, Festa, Matthews, Culpepper, Emma and possibly GG/Jenkins join the big squad.

You know it is going to be A NIGHT when Kreidler hits one out in the 2nd!

Jeffers is going to get PAID this offseason... unfortunately it is highly unlikely to be by the Twins.... so are we going to let him run out the string and walk for nothing but a comp pick?  

If we are not solidly out of contention by the deadline... it is going to be VERY interesting how we handle Ryan and Jeffers. 

It would be a nice problem to have, but a problem none the less.....  unless they think this team is a championship contender.... which I do not believe that it is.

I don’t think the Twins need any more help hitting lefties. They’ve beaten the best ones.

Chased the Cy Young winner last week and now the runner up tonight with an impressive offensive showing. 

Ober looked better tonight. Home run to Durran was really the only blemish during an otherwise decent outing. 

Hoping Abel can have another good game and we can get after Sonny! Go Twins!

16 minutes ago, D.C Twins said:

You know it is going to be A NIGHT when Kreidler hits one out in the 2nd!

 

In his 2nd AB of the game....

13 runs on 16 base runners. 6 for 7 with RiSP.

This is exactly how I saw the lineup performing this season.

Lewis better hurry back - he's getting Wally Pipped by Kreidler and Gray.

Baseball can be a mind boggling game.  Watching them shell Crochet was surreal and astonishing.

Extend Jeffers, extend Joe Ryan, and honestly given the injury question marks maybe even extend Pablo and the fans will return to you in full force Mr. Pohlad. Extend one of your young studs (Keaschall? Jenkins?) and show the fans you care. I was one of the 4%'ers but this is how you start to get the rest back

Jeffers has been valuable. He plays catcher. He has a wRC+ of 179. He is second in the league in WPA from overturning calls. He has to be among the leagues most valuable players thus far.

47 minutes ago, DarrenPS said:

Extend Jeffers, extend Joe Ryan, and honestly given the injury question marks maybe even extend Pablo and the fans will return to you in full force Mr. Pohlad. Extend one of your young studs (Keaschall? Jenkins?) and show the fans you care. I was one of the 4%'ers but this is how you start to get the rest back

Disagree very respectably.  Go young.  OBP, speed, defense.  We will never compete with the dodgers with big contracts to Pablo, Jeffers. (Ryan I struggle with)

2 hours ago, GopherMike said:

Eric Orze once again leads the Twins to victory.

6-0 when he pitches. 

Haha

typical MN response (from me) "I know it's really early in the year" but is it possible Rocco was simply an awful manager?  I think most liked him, me included, but somewhere along the way it feels like he lost concept.  We can debate MW all day but if in the lineup, should Rocco had him as lead off hitter? Probably not fair to Matt.   The lineups changed every single day.  A starter couldn't go more than 4-5 innings.

no idea where this ends, but as and old timer it's fun to watch baseball played again the way I was raised with.

We are actually 10-7.

1 hour ago, ashbury said:

Very efficient offense, several of these last games.

Kinda mind blowing considering the last couple of years.

43 minutes ago, AceWrigley said:

Kinda mind blowing considering the last couple of years.

Kinda mind blowing considering some the best lefthanders we have beaten  ...

Caratini was a very shrewd signing. He's a decent 1B so his bat will be in the lineup most days and we have our main catcher for next year assuming Jeffers departs in FA. 

It's hard to believe the Twins are 2nd in the AL in runs scored. It helps that the two main FA signings, Bell and Caratini have settled really nicely. And Buxton and Keaschall haven't got going yet so there's more to come.

4 hours ago, DJL44 said:

I don’t think the Twins need any more help hitting lefties. They’ve beaten the best ones.

I saw someone post this online:

Tarik Skubal, Framber Valdez, and Garrett Crochet at Target Field in the last week: 11 innings pitched, 28 hits, 7 walks, 22 earned runs. That's an 18.00 ERA for the three All-Star lefties.

Wow!!! Only thing I’m concerned with twins used up all their runs/home runs for today! It’s still early but twins aren’t going away and will be in division and wild card race all year long!!! You have to think with all the negativity it’s bulletin board material!!! Huge win!!! Let’s get win today and clinch series!!! As always go Twins!!!

7 hours ago, Colbeh said:

Those first two innings were nuts! 

This is a fun team to watch right now and should get more exciting as Prielipp, Festa, Matthews, Culpepper, Emma and possibly GG/Jenkins join the big squad.

Festa dn Matthews are likely to join mid-summer - the others are long team injury replacements as Roden will be called up before any of the outfielders.  The rest will most likely get a cup of coffee as season end, or at the trade deadline if a sell becomes a reality.

3 hours ago, UK Twin said:

Caratini was a very shrewd signing. He's a decent 1B so his bat will be in the lineup most days and we have our main catcher for next year assuming Jeffers departs in FA. 

It's hard to believe the Twins are 2nd in the AL in runs scored. It helps that the two main FA signings, Bell and Caratini have settled really nicely. And Buxton and Keaschall haven't got going yet so there's more to come.

Make the big move and extend Jeffers now...........his price tag just keeps going up and his value to this team is huge.