Forum Friday: Making the Cut

Topics included rookie pitchers, national media attention, rookie pitchers... and did we mention rookie pitchers?

• The Twins are "the most intriguing team" in their division, according to one national website. glunn has the highlights here:
  FiveThirtyEight Article on the Twins
   
• In 2006, the Twins found The (Rally) Monkey's Paw and wished for a great rookie pitcher, but got a playoff curse along with him. Could another rookie pitcher help break the curse this year?
  Is 2022 finally the year we see another Francisco Liriano?
   
• Vanimal46 broke the news that the Twins will be rolling the dice on one rookie pitcher as early as opening day:
  Opening Day Starter is…. (Spoiler alert: Joe Ryan.)
   
• In an alternate universe, Hunter Greene could have been another Twins rookie pitcher this year. It was with regret that MMMordabito shared that news in our Other Baseball forum:
  Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda - Hunter Greene in Red's Opening Day Rotation
   
• Sadly, not everybody will make the big club -- some will be sent to a nice farm upstate St. Paul. Twodogs wonders who they will be, in the Twins Minor League forum:
  St. Paul's starting lineup??

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