*slow clap* Holy moly, great post. Going from memory, it’d seemed like bullpen games were getting a lot of unfair flak when it seemed to me they’d been working quite well for the Twins. Thanks for doing a ton of work into qualifying that belief. I mean, from a fan perspective, bullpen games are less fun but it’s not as if the Twins *wanted* most of their rotation to go down the first week of the season. As a workaround to a bunch of injuries, these bullpen games have kept the Twins near the front of the division, even if they’re not much fun for us to watch.