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  1. That's a very good comparison, same age. Skenes threw 46 pitches in his first outing and is up to 71 pitches in his last outing. Raya also threw 46 in his first outing and 44 in his last outing. Festa has gone from 49 to 64.
  2. Nice to see Santana and Castro heating up. Bowman can be a little scary but he gets the job done in the end. He threw a lot of pitches. I wonder if that means he's gone when Duran comes back, assuming that's soon. The Twins are winning games they are supposed to win. Some good teams even struggle with that. Keep it up!
  3. Soto is 3 years younger than Raya and throws more pitches. Both pitched good but Raya is a relief pitcher only, in my mind, right now. At least with Festa, we are increasing his workload slowly.
  4. Topa on rehab assignment and Duran coming back. Funderburk going to the minors IMO. Then who? I guess they try to squeeze Bowman through waivers to the Saints, even though he has pitched great. We have no flexibility with most of the guys in the Twins pen right now. Doncon with a couple errors (actually had 3 when I looked last night but they must have changed one of the calls).
  5. The Twins are on an amazing streak of more than one year plus of not having any catcher hit the IL. What they are doing is keeping both catchers healthy. Vazquez is great on defense. I say keep rotating every game as Jeffers gets the DH some days when he isn't catching.
  6. Any time the Twins have a chance to slide Paddack back, they will do it. They are concerned about his total innings for the year after hardly pitching for two years. Edit: Scratch the above. It's Ober who got moved back. Not sure, maybe the Sox will be easier for SWR?????
  7. #1, #2, and #3 prospects all injured. That has to be something no other team can match. Wichita is in Groundhog's Day. Decent starting pitching by Adams, sizeable lead midway through the game, and the bullpen blows it bigtime. Though he doesn't wish to be right, @Dman continues to be right about their pen.
  8. Bowman has actually been really good so far. I'm thinking SWR for Henriquez and then Duran for Funderburk next week. But when Topa comes back, so many guys don't have options (including Bowman), so who would be the odd man out...........................
  9. Festa's first three games - 8.1 innings with 8 hits and 9 BB's but no homers. Last two games - 7.1 innings, 6 hits, 3 BB's and 1 HR. I love the 1 homer in 15 innings. Innings at least moving in the right direction, as well as his walks per inning.
  10. I agree, unless the Twins are really thinking about his overall innings count for the year and think they are going to need him to pitch in MLB. That's the only reason I can see this. Festa was pitching six innings in several starts in 2022. No known injuries with the Twins in his minor league career to my knowledge.
  11. Cespedes and E-Rod battling it out for minor league hitter of the month. Keirsey playing well. Fajardo seems to have switched from high average, low HR player to the reverse. I'm sure he's trying to add power to his game because he probably needs it to make to MLB. What do we know about Jarret Whorff? He has had a great month of April but doesn't seem to go very deep into games (not as restricted as Raya of course).
  12. You would think a team would start weighting the amount of time played in their drafting. A kid starts pitching at age 15 and is an equal rating (or maybe slightly below) as someone who started at age 10, both stars. The team would take the kid with less pitches made in his arm.
  13. No. Jeffers coming in at DH would remove Kirilloff. Jeffers could come in to play but the pitcher would need to be inserted in someone else's place.
  14. Post game show on the Twins radio just said that Brooks Lee has a herniated disk. Ouch!
  15. If Cory Lewis just need a little extra time to ramp up, I would have thought he would be pitching three weeks into the season.
  16. Combine them and get Chi-Chi Rodriguez!
  17. No, though he would fit in right now. .173 batting average, .612 OPS. Seattle fans aren't exactly thrilled with the trade either.
  18. You don't keep Farmer if he isn't your backup SS. I believe if Brooks Lee was healthy, Farmer would be #4 on the Twins depth chart at SS. You don't trade for Margot if he's not your backup CF. Margot is now #4 on the depth chart in CF, behind Buxton, Castro and Martin. And oh, if Brooks Lee was healthy, he would have had a chance to play starting in game #2 at 3B and SS after that.
  19. I'm very happy with E-Rod's start in AA. I actually thought he would struggle at first. Keep him at AA until mid-season to tweak a couple things you mentioned. But do NOT do an Austin Martin on him and try to make him someone he isn't.
  20. Love the headline. Thought the same thing when I looked at the scores last night. "542 foot blast with an exit velo of 236 mph. " Are you sure they didn't click on kilometers? Someone could get killed by that kind of hit. Raya has pitched so good this year. To only be allowed 44 pitches in his 4th game IIRC really means the Twins are concerned about something with him. He's at a high level for his age but his innings/pitch count is like no other for us.
  21. You had me going there. I had to go check the roster and transactions to see if something happened today. Nope, E-Rod is still in AA.
  22. Buxton is healthy and playing great in CF when he's out there. Stewart is pitching great and I think he should be the closer until Duran gets back. Jax will do just fine in the 7th and 8th innings. Oh, and Duran is throwing bullpen sessions.
  23. No Cory Lewis yet and Raya on a very short leash has hurt the starting pitching. The bullpen has blown some huge leads and has an ERA over 9.00. Also, Cedar Rapids started slow last year and then started winning a lot come about May, if I remember correctly.
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