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Hope we can get at Crochet early. We have hit him pretty well as of late.

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Very true. Who would have thought with Ryan coming off significant injury last year, and with a throw together 4th and 5th starter they would be this dialed in.

Here's how dialed in this Twins starting staff has been over the last 12 games, and since Joe Ryan's 6ER clunker. In these 12 starts they haven't given up more than 2 ER. 68 INN (5.67 INN per start) 61 H (5.08 Hits per start) 16 ER (1.33 ERA) 66 KS (5.5 KS per start) 19 BB (1.58 BB per start) WHIP (1.18) These are incredible numbers. I get it was against crappy teams but give the Twins starters a lot of credit. These numbers are spectacular.

Yesssss Kody Clemens hahaha.

Love the Twins, I'm just being a realist. This is what they are, a bad team, unfortunately.

Love the Twins, I'm just being a realist. This is what they are, a bad team, unfortunately.

I mean at this point would McCusker add anything besides excitement to the team? Maybe that's all we need? Would Adam's or Funderburk be upgrades? I just don't know.

Just brutal hitting. Their two strike approach needs to change. Too many called third strikes. I don't know who or what you can add to make this lineup better.

Julien will have fun in St Paul next week.

The Twins as a team have hit Bello pretty well, but in today's lineup, the hitters are 3-15 (.200 BA). Sounds like another one-run game to me. Come on, we are overdue for a breakout.

Sucks, way too many injuries.

I think it's par for the course at this point. He will be good, but I don't want to see him come up as a 25-26-year-old rookie. I would prefer he get experience earlier, especially at the higher levels. Hope he can shake this lingering ankle injury.

New blog entry. Let me know what you think. I would love to hear from everyone.

The Minnesota Twins drafted Byron Buxton with the second overall pick in 2012. Drafted with the promise of a five-tool player boasting 30-30 potential, injuries and an inconsistent approach at the plate have unfortunately hindered Buxton from fully realizing that talent over his 11-year career. He has battled knee injuries, back problems, wrist issues, concussions, migraines, hip soreness, and other nagging issues. All these injuries have amounted to him missing around 50% of his playing time. Buxton is in his 11th season as a Twin, and he has appeared in 772 career games, which averages out to roughly 77 games played a year coming into the 2025 season. The bright spot this year for Buxton is that he has managed to play in all but three games so far. Two of the games he missed were for personal reasons. With Buxton healthy and playing centerfield, we have already seen what he can do with his glove and speed. Byron remains one of the best centerfielders in baseball, with an above-average Fielding Run value of two and an above-average arm. Another intriguing stat is that Buxton is among the best in the league at route running, and his burst of speed allows him to break on balls that he gets a bad jump on. He won a Gold Glove in 2017 when he played in a career-high 140 games. So far this year, he has yet to make an error in the field, totaling 232 innings and 59 chances. Over his 11-year career, Buxton is in the top 25 all-time in fielding percentage (.9931), proving why he's so valuable to have in Centerfield. Buxton Completes Twins' 100-100 Trifecta Buxton made history during Wednesday's game against the Cleveland Guardians by recording his 100th career stolen base. With that stolen base and his 139 career home runs, only three players in Minnesota Twins history have achieved the milestone of 100 home runs and 100 stolen bases, and Buxton is one of them. He joins Torii Hunter and the late great Kirby Puckett as the only ones to accomplish this feat. Buxton has brought back his elite speed and knack for stealing bases along with his fielding. Buxton currently ranks #1 in the league in sprint speed (30.2). Since 1951, his 100 stolen bases put him #1 all-time in stolen base percentage at 89.28% (Metric is based on 80 stolen base attempts (baserunners only since 1951) or 100 decisions for career leaderboards for rate statistics). He has only been caught stealing 12 times in his career and is currently 7-7 this year in stolen base attempts. It's a luxury for the Twins to employ such a game-changer in Buxton. If he stays healthy, he will have a good shot at 20HR-20SB and an outside shot at 30-30, especially if he can raise his career average to .244. Brian Dozier was the last twin to hit 20 home runs and steal 20 bases in one season when he hit 23 home runs and swiped 21 stolen bases; no Twin has ever reached the 30-30 mark. Could it be Buxton this year? Suppose he can work on his 34.2 K% and extremely low 3.4 BB%. A more selective Buxton would also help increase these numbers, but Byron is Byron. He's gonna be aggressive at the plate and swing early and often. Health is always a big question mark with Byron, but he has answered all his critics. It's very exciting as a Twins fan to see him playing every day in Centerfield, where he belongs. I hope his bat can heat up, and the Twins can pile up some wins. The Twins currently sit in fourth place (13-18) with one more game against Cleveland today, before heading out for a three-game slate vs the Boston Red Sox.

Walker Jenkins Potential, potential, potential, but will he ever stay healthy? A ton of excitement for this kid.Emmanuel Rodriguez The organization is taking it slow with him. They have already promoted Wallner, Larnach, Keirsey Jr, and Martin ahead of him. ERod has great power potential and a plus arm, but I don't know the Twins' game plan here.Luke Keaschall Is he still considered a prospect? If so, he's GOATED.Carson McCusker He's destroying the ball at Triple-A, but you would have a logjam with him, Larnach, Wallner, Martin, and Kiersey Jr. at the corner outfield spotsKaelen Culpepper He's carrying a .919 OPS at high-A. He has massive upside and a great glove. He could ultimately move to third.Connor Prielipp High strikeout guy with three-plus pitches. His slider touches the upper 80s and misses bats at a 56% clip. His changeup has been much improved with a 62% miss rate. Injuries and lack of injuries are concerning.Marco Raya GOATCharlee Soto GOATCJ Culpepper GOATYunior Severino Just because he's one of my favorite Twins prospects, he has fallen off the map in the Twins' eyes. Minor League Player of the Year in 2023. has massive power potential.Dasan Hill GOATBrandon Winokur GOATCory Lewis GOATKyle DeBarge GOATBilly Amick GOATGabriel Gonzalez GOATRicardo Olivar GOATTravis Adams GOATPayton Eeles GOATDylan Questad GOAT

I highlighted Carlos Correa's early struggles at the plate in my Twins blog. Let me know what you guys think. I'm interested to see what everyone says.

The Minnesota Twins are off to a 9-16 start. The team's hitting has been pretty close to non-existent in the first 25 games. They have been able to see guys like Byron Buxton and Luke Keaschall slug the ball all over the ballpark. Both Keaschall and Buxton have a slugging percentage over .450. The Twins' renewed effort to steal bases has been a pleasant surprise. Although the Twins sit in the bottom half of the league in steals, they are almost 25% of the way there to last year's total. While Keaschall and Buxton have been good at taking good at-bats and setting the tone for other Twins hitters, it's too bad they can't hit in every spot of the order. Coming into Thursday's game against the Chicago white Sox, the Twins ranked in the bottom half in batting average (.216), runs (85), and hitting with runners in scoring position (.216), which this number will be lower because the Twins finished Thursday's game going 0-8. A big reason has been that Carlos Correa's bat must have gotten lost down in Florida at their Minor League camp when the team headed north. Correa is off to one of the worst starts of his career with a batting average of .167 and splits that look like .222/.274/.496. Those numbers are the third lowest in all of baseball with players who have recorded 80+ at-bats. He has primarily hit out of the fifth spot all year, so I don't think it's a lineup spot issue. Correa has seen his Exit Velocity at its lowest it's been his whole career at 87.8, couple that with his lowest Max EV. since 2020 at 110.1, to me it looks like he's just missing pitches down and in and pitches in the zone. His barrel percentage is a pitiful 4.4%. One thing I have noticed is that his quality of contact has been more towards topping the ball; his numbers suggest that 44.1% of his swings are on top of the ball, and put that with a 2.9% solid contact rate means he's not seeing the ball well and is resulting to him grounding into the second most double plays (6) so far this year. I haven't heard of him making any significant batting changes or mechanical issues, but it's clear that he's missing balls that are in the zone and whiffing at balls down and in. Correa says he feels good and that it's not an injury issue, he's just getting unlucky with the harder hit balls, and that he's not too far off from breaking loose. Right now, Correa is in the 74th percentile in Whiff% and 84th percentile in K%, but as you can see from the charts below, a lot of his misses have come in the strike zone. I haven't heard of him making any significant batting changes or mechanical issues, but it's clear that he's missing balls that are in the zone and whiffing at balls down and in. Correa says he feels good and that it's not an injury issue, he's just getting unlucky with the harder hit balls, and that he's not too far off from breaking loose. Carlos Correa is expected to remain the Twins' primary shortstop. Carlos Correa is expected to remain the Twins' primary shortstop due to the team's current injury situation and the lack of a Minor League shortstop prospect ready for immediate Major League impact. With Willi Castro just landing on the IL, the Twins are thin at middle infielders. Brooks Lee will likely have to play third until Royce Lewis comes back, and newly acquired Jonah Bride has never played shortstop. Correa signed a six-year, $200 million contract in 2023, and his 2025 annual salary is $36 million, resulting in a total payroll salary of $37.33 million for this season. That also might be another reason why the Twins are reluctant to make a move. He has shown that he hasn't lost much on the defensive side, already tracking down some in-between hits that any other normal shortstop wouldn't have made a play on, essentially giving the Twins the defensive skills that they don't have with anyone else. Another possibility would be for the Twins to move him further down in the lineup and shift players like Harrison Bader, Brooks Lee, or Ty France up to the five-hole. The Twins need to desperately get his bat going, especially when Matt Wallner and Royce Lewis come off the injured list. It would be ideal for the Twins to have all hands on deck. Can Correa get going and save his season at the plate?

Yeah could be good for the Twins. The Angels have only scored 9 runs in their last 5 games. Twins hitting with RISP is brutal.

The Braves were too good..... That 5-13 record at the time must have scared the Twins. We will get it going tonight. I HOPE.

Hey Twins fans, our morale is low, but we get the White Sox for three games. It's time to hit some lasers and get this team back on track! The White Sox got our season rolling last year. I wrote in my Twin's Blog about needing this series to ignite the Twins. Please check it out and let me know what you think.

With a 7-15 record, the Twins come into the season holding the second-worst mark in the American League. They open up a three-game series against the worst team in the American League, the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox are bringing statistically one of the worst teams in baseball to Target Field. It was the same day last year, April 22nd, the Twins were 7-13 and were getting ready to host a four-game series vs the White Sox. Their sweep of the White Sox then sparked a 12-game winning streak. From April 22nd through roughly the second week of August, the Twins performed like one of the best teams in baseball. We all know what would happen after that. Is this the series that gets the Twins rolling? Or is this team different?

Yep, I agree. Once popularity was sky high, they thought they could just put a crazy price tag on the team, and they would have several suitors. Well, they did, then they still wanted to have controlling interest in the team. Since then, no more interest. They don't care about the product.

I love this article. You hit on all the points. I think winning that Blue Jays series in the playoffs started all of this ownership mess. The Twins win a playoff series, and then the next year, the Pohlads slash the payroll by $30 million and want a king's ransom for the team. What a joke.

Bases loaded twice and no runs. Hitters are looking at called strike 3's. Yikes, let's beat up on the CHI Sox.