UpstateNewYorker

No Pinch Hitter for Vasquez???

You're probably right. Only 11 pitches thrown by Jax -- wouldn't mind seeing him go another inning.

Let's hope this one goes to 11. Fun fact: In "Spinal Tap" Christopher Guest based the look of his character on guitarist Jeff Beck (recently departed).

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Yeah, a lot of bad at bats. 28 pitches by Soroka through three innings.

Good job by SWR to get out of that jam.

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Santana stops the rally.

I get it that launch angle and hitting for power are vital. This roster is very one-dimensional and we can't steal bases or even run the bases very well due to the nature of the roster. So when the HRs don't show up, it's very difficult to produce runs. Even in this era it seems like the best offenses have at least some ability to manufacture runs without the long ball.

You might want to adopt an NL team. I suggest the Reds; they are young, athletic, and can hit. Sort of the anti-Twins,

He's now at .075 BA.

Yeah, I was confused by that too. Not a good call by Provus to say the runner may have left early.

Robert is on the 10 day IL (hip). Moncado is on the 60 day IL (adductor).

I mentioned that Vasquez was last. Next worst is actually Julien Rk. Player Team Age Position Competitive Runs Bolts HP to 1B Sprint Speed (ft / sec) 1 Buxton, Byron MIN 30 CF 20 28.6 2 Martin, Austin MIN 25 LF 20 27.9 3 Castro, Willi MIN 27 SS 19 27.2 4 Kirilloff, Alex MIN 26 DH 32 4.47 26.9 5 Correa, Carlos MIN 29 SS 12 26.9 6 Margot, Manuel MIN 29 RF 11 26.5 7 Farmer, Kyle MIN 33 3B 18 26.2 8 Jeffers, Ryan MIN 27 C 24 26.2 9 Santana, Carlos MIN 38 1B 16 25.2 10 Julien, Edouard MIN 25 2B 20 24.5 11 Vázquez, Christian MIN 33 C 11 24.5

Correa has the fifth best sprint speed among the 11 Twins who have enough attempts to qualify for this list.

Good guess, he is the third worst at 25.2 ft/sec. By the way only three Twins rank above the league average (27.0): Buxton, Martin, and Castro,

Miranda pretty slow getting to first on that DP. I checked his sprint speed on Baseball Savant, but apparently he doesn't have enough attempts on the season to register. Vazquez ranks as the slowest Twin (24.5 ft/sec). Any guesses as who is the second slowest?

Man nothing is easy.

Not a lot of team speed on this roster.

So some outs really are better than strikeouts?

Good job Jax.

A thrown on a long hop is easier to handle than a ball in the air when a runner is bearing down on you, IMHO.