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Ex-Twins Pitchers 5/26/26 Name IP ERA Record Zack Littell 53.1 5.23 4-4 Tyler Mahle 51.2 6.10 1-6 Martin Perez 46.2 2.70 2-3 Sonny Gray 44.0 3.27 5-1 Chris Paddack 40.2 6.86 0-6 Griffin Jax 28.0 3.54 1-2. now starting Louis Varland 27.2 0.65 2-1, 7 saves Jovani Moran 27.2 3.25 0-2 Brent Headrick 26.2 2.03 3-1 Tyler Wells 25.1 3.70 0-1 Steven Okert 23.1 3.86 no record Richard Lovelady 23.0 2.35 2-2, 4 saves Tyler Kinley 22.2 3.57 4-2 Luis Gil 19.1 6.05 1-2 Cade Povich 19.1 5.12 1-1 Yennier Cano 19.1 1.40 1-1 Trevor Megill 17.0 5.29 0-2, 5 saves Shaun Anderson 16.2 5.94 1-0 Dietrich Enns 16.0 3.94 3-0 Jhoan Duran 15.2 1.72 1-2, 10 saves Emilio Pagan 14.0 6.43 2-1, 6 saves Trevor Richards 12.0 7.50 no record Caleb Thielbar 10.2 3.38 2-2, 2 saves Danny Coulombe 9.0 5.00 0-1 Charlie Barnes 5.0 5.40 no record Brooks Kriske 2.2 0.00 no record Jose Berrios out for season Brusdar Graterol out since beginning of 2025 season

Ex-Twins Hitters 5/26/26 Name AB OBP OPS Luis Arraez 201 .361 .789 Spencer Steer 181 .338 .780 Willi Castro 145 .319 .670 Brent Rooker 140 .277 .634 Luke Raley 137 .329 .891 Edouard Julien 131 .302 .592 Carlos Correa 122 .369 .787 out for season Christian Vazquez 101 .318 .734 Harrison Bader 97 .206 .587 Ty France 90 .319 .852 Gary Sanchez 89 .366 .793 Rob Refsnyder 69 .167 .355 Mitch Garver 65 .364 .638 Jorge Polanco 56 .246 .532 out since April Isiah Kiner-Falefa 51 .321 .616 Mickey Gasper 37 .342 .720 Carlos Santana 24 .154 .279 out since April Kyle Farmer 14 .267 .624

Royce sounds like he needs a hug. I hope he can work through this.

OK, let's bring Gonzalez up to play first base. I saw one play, I'm sold. Time to start playing for next year.

And define "addition". Sounds like if you use WAR we might have another "subtraction".

So glad we just bought a new reliever who is on a different team every few weeks. These guys are gold, we just have to work that Pete Maki Magic on them! If they can just try 20 or 30 more they are bound to find one who is at least league-average.

They haven't quit. Hope they can keep churning.

Amen, brother. The game I saw in Oakland where he blew a solid lead in the ninth now ranks as "just another day". I gotta move on.

I wonder how late it is at night when Bowden plugs in his Random Names To Trade generator and starts writing down what spews out. Really late, probably.

I expect regression, sure. But I really hope they don’t regress to last year.

One slight adjustment should be made- one of the times he was thrown out was when he ran toward second in an attempt to get a throw so Buck could score from third. They threw down, he was out, the Twins scored the run. Not his fault- that has to have been called from the dugout.

Ex-Twins Pitchers 4/19/26 Name IP ERA Record Sonny Gray 16.1 2.76 2-0 Zack Littell 15 4.20 0-1 Chris Paddack 14.2 6.14 0-2 Tyler Mahle 14.2 4.30 0-2 Martin Perez 14.1 3.14 0-1 Cade Povich 12.1 2.19 1-0 Tyler Wells 9.2 3.72 Louis Varland 9 0.00 0-1 Emilio Pagan 8.1 5.40 1-0, 4 saves Brent Headrick 8.1 2.16 1-0 Jovani Moran 8 2.25 Shaun Anderson 8 4.50 Richard Lovelady 7.1 3.68 1-1 Steven Okert 7.1 4.91 Jhoan Duran 6.2 1.35 1-1, 5 saves Tyler Kinley 6 1.50 2-0 Griffin Jax 5.1 8.44 0-2 Caleb Thielbar 5.1 3.38 1-2 Dietrich Enns 4.1 4.15 Yennier Cano 4.1 2.08 1-1 Trevor Megill 4 11.25 0-2, 3 saves Danny Coulombe 4 2.25 Luis Gil 4 6.75 0-1

Ex-Twins Hitters, 4/19/26 Name AB OBP OPS Luis Arraez 56 .339 .732 Harrison Bader 52 .145 .338 Spencer Steer 51 .218 .571 Carlos Correa 51 .368 .780 Jorge Polanco 49 .259 .565 Luke Raley 47 .314 .846 Brent Rooker 41 .245 .538 Edouard Julien 35 .385 .813 Carlos Santana 24 .154 .279 Christian Vazquez 23 .375 .984 Gary Sanchez 22 .429 1.247 Rob Refsnyder 16 .158 .158 OPS+ is -49 Ty France 14 .375 .946 Isiah Kiner-Falefa 11 .167 .258 Mitch Garver 8 .364 .489 Kyle Farmer 5 .333 .933

I would like to see a two-week moratorium on Wallner tapping his helmet.

CES got waived, Steven Hajjar retired after spending 3 years in A+ leagues, and Steer's WAR has gone from 2.9 to 1.5 to 0.7 and so far this year is at -0.4. His OPS plus has gone from 117 to 96 to 94 to this year's tiny-sample-size 40. Tyler Mahle in the meantime currently is 0-2 for the Giants in 3 starts, with an ERA of 4.35 and a WHIP of 1.6. Since the trade in 2022 he's pitched a total of 156 innings over 3 full seasons and parts of 2 others. I'm prepared to just forget this whole thing ever happened rather than dragging it back and forth over some pretty dead coals..