Speaking of Hoffman. I could see him taking over the closer job in 2027. He is still signed though next season. Morris/Funderburk should slide into the 8th. Funderburk has looked a lot better in this iteration.
I think that is just a manager thing in general. The whole reason we have Hoffman now is because he imploded and Toronto waited too long to replace him.
Earlier in the season, Morneau had stated from the minor league stats that the umps strike zone widens out when a team loses all of their challenges. Haven't heard anything about that since May, but I bet that would still be true for ML umps as well.
I had somewhat expected that the Gophers would finally schedule NDSU again since they moved up to FBS. Maybe that will be in the works in the future. Don't know if the Gophers would bite, but that would be a nice game to have at Target Field.
We made it to the end and won the game! It was all because @Patzky stayed up tonight for the rest of the game! The rest was smoke and mirrors, especially Nance pitching the 8th.