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  1. stringer bell
    Always wonder about these scenarios. They sent Anderson down for Sands, but he has pitched well. So has Fundrrburk for a while now. To me, Adams should also be in the conversation. A decision on Acton will need to be made in a week or so. Right now the bullpen looks……okay, but certainly not dominating.
  2. stringer bell
    When the Twins got Kody, I thought I came up with a good burn by calling him “Bronnie”. I was totally wrong.
  3. stringer bell
    Roden (and Fedko too) are outfielders who "can play center", but they aren't center fielders. It seems to me that Roden has average-ish speed and arm from what I've seen and that would be subpar as a center fielder. Keaschall has the speed to have good range in the outfield. He's inexperienced and it has shown a few times.
  4. stringer bell
    25 at-bats. A couple of bloopers fall in and he would look like he was ripping the ball. He's an infielder and the Twins have been playing short an infielder since Buxton was activated 10 days ago.
  5. stringer bell
    I'm not a big Gray fan either, but they have been short an infielder since Gray was optioned and Buxton was activated. I'd probably rather see one of the other St. Paul guys who plays infield, but I don't know if they want to start the clock on Culpepper who is just coming off a fairly long IL stint himself. I think Gray will get some starts at shortstop and it will bother me because he's no better there than Brooks Lee. Just a note, neither Jenkins or Culpepper (or Gonzalez or Mendez) are really setting AAA on fire. The Saints have a team OPS of .834, Jenkins OPS is .880 and Culpepper is .841, Mendez is .844 and Gonzalez is .729. Guys like Wallner and Fedko have far better numbers and we've seen what they have done against major league pitching.
  6. stringer bell
    Rehabbing at Ft. Myers
  7. stringer bell
    Gray recalled as Buxton was put on the IL for recurring hip pain.
  8. stringer bell
    Buxton to IL, Gray recalled.
  9. stringer bell
    Does anyone have the catch probability of Perez' fly ball single? Provus miscalled it as a potential gapper IIRC, so it would appear to be one of those big swing poorly hit ball that get misjudged fairly often. Also, was Lewis' hit catchable? I watched the replay a couple of times and couldn't see exactly where it hit off the wall.
  10. stringer bell
    Half a game behind Cleveland and two back of Chicago. I think winning the division is the easier way to the postseason. I am going to speculate thst Buxton is IL bound again. Who replaces him?
  11. stringer bell
    Have you not been watching for the last 10 years? He's streaky, always has been and probably always will be. If he's healthy, he'll come out of it and be a force, we just don't know when. Also, he's not the guy you want hitting with the tying or winning runner in scoring position. That has been true for more than 2026.
  12. stringer bell
    Rogers is having a very nice month of July. Probably a lot of BABiP luck etc, but only one run allowed in 7+ innings. Also, Fundy has been pretty good in July on what has to be close to his last chance--one run allowed in 9 innings and significantly only two walks.
  13. stringer bell
    If this wasn't Minnesota, I guess I might feel different about buying to sneak into the playoffs. There has been so little success in postseason for all the male professional teams that just making it for a team that wasn't expected to is worth something. Gleeman and others have noted that a young and more athletic core is taking shape in the near future. There is never enough pitching and adding controllable pitching is expensive but usually necessary.
  14. stringer bell
    I think the Twins have a better shot at winningbthe division than being a wild card. While they’ve consistently trailed both Chicago and Cleveland, the margin is less than a series sweep right now. These are two franchises that are unlikely to spend much to improve at the deadline and frankly are the most suspect of teams nominally contending for postseason. I think Jeffers is going to be traded and i would hope the Twins can acquire a major league arm in any package for him. Pick up another pitcher and perhaps a hitter and go from there.
  15. stringer bell
    The Twins are 12-8 thus far in July. They've been outscored by seven runs and outhomered by 6. Overall, the pitching has been better, particularly the bullpen (4.15 ERA for the staff). Several hitters have hit the skids in July (Caratini, Bell, Lewis, Kreidler, Buxton, Lee) but there has been enough offense to win a majority of games. A hidden factor might be much improved defense. Lee, Lewis and Keaschall are all better at their new positions than they were as starting infielders when the season started. Ryan Kreidler is by far the best shortstop option defensively and Roden, Martin and Keaschall have improved the corner OF, particularly right field.
  16. stringer bell
    Relief pitcher Scott Blewett, who I always thought deserved a better fate with the Twins, was DFA'd by the Cardinals recently and traded to the A's. He will be on the A's roster. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/07/as-acquire-scott-blewett.html
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  18. stringer bell
    I think rehab is limited to 20 days. Sands started a rehab, but was shut down IIRC. Edit to add: I was wr-wr-wr-wrong. 20 days for position players. 30 days for pitchers.
  19. stringer bell
    Coming into this season Kreidler was among the absolute worst hitters given even a minimal number of PAs in recent years. He’s been better than that even including the July slump. His body of work for the Twins is pretty good—positive WAR, positive defensive ratings at key positions and an OPS+ of around 100. Given the defense, that’s a regular player. We can’t predict that he’ll keep his hitting numbers acceptable, but at the two-thirds milepost, Kreidler has been pretty decent. Sands hasn’t been the same since ‘24. Velocity is down, chase rate is down, Ks are down, walks are up. I don’t know if he can be optioned, the Twins haven’t used one for him in years. I wouldn’t be totally surprised if he went right back on the IL, but maybe he was just rusty. Regardless, he would fall behind atleast five.guys on the bullpen trust meter—Gómez, Morris, Nance, and lefthanders Rogers and Funderburk.
  20. stringer bell
    Martin looked like he was consuming bad things on that fly ball. I am getting bad feelings about the game that was supposedly in tge bag.
  21. stringer bell
    I haven’t been to many stadiums, but went to both old and new Yankee Stadium. Not impressed by the new and it was time to close down the old. I like Seattle’s retractable-roof stadium, not a big fan of Milwaukee’s park. I really like Mile High in Denver.
  22. stringer bell
    99% of the time if the fielder leaves his feet and doesn’t make a catch it will be a hit. Official scorers get pretty loose with what constitutes extra difficulty and what is hard hit. I thought Cleveland’s official scoring was the wrst for home-town calls earlier this week.
  23. stringer bell
    Honestly, it looks like the Twins are playing a high school team.
  24. stringer bell
    No. He was with the Braves, just released last week.
  25. stringer bell
    1-0! Lewis is definitely running better this year.
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