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  1. IndianaTwin
    He may indeed. Fangraphs has him seventh among hitters. Skubal and Crochet are also above him, though some writers discount pitchers. Aside from Pena, he's got at least 100 plate appearances fewer than any of the other Top 10 hitters, so he may get penalized for that. It would be great to see him get it.
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    I’m struck by the difference in OPS+. Over his career, Hunter was essentially average as a hitter. He had two years in the lower 120s (123 and 124), so take out those two and he was slightly below average for the most of his career. By contrast, Buxton has had periods when he’s been amazing. He has five years where his OPS+ is better than Hunter’s best year. The issue is the difference in games played.
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    I've been doing some of the same and it's been fun to watch. Here's another tidbit. He's now at 29.4 bWAR, with 4.6 on the season (so far). The Twins career leader board is: 63.8: Carew 60.6: Killebrew 55.6: Mauer 51.1: Puckett 43.1: Oliva 38.6: Hrbek 38.0: Knoblauch 34.1: Allison 29.4: Buxton With a bit more than three years left on his contract, he has a legitimate chance of passing Oliva. Particularly with the way he has persevered, I'd love to see him get to the point on the list where a 25 gets hung among the retired numbers. If that happens, I hope there's more focus on what he's done than on what could have been. (And given that the next outfielder on the list is Hunter at 26.4, followed by Tovar at 25.9 and Kepler at 20.5, I'd say he's worked himself close to the all-time Twins team in an outfield including Puckett and Oliva. Another season like this and he passes Allison.)
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    He's at 456 plate appearances with 22 games to go. Here's what he'd get on top of his $15 1/7 million. Getting to 533 plate appearances seems very attainable. I suspect he'll make at least a few MVP ballots, though I don't know if he'll get to top 10.
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    Yeah, when we really know SWR's injury was from a systematic* flaw in eating too much fish throughout the organization. Even Dr. Rumack knows he should have had the chicken. Surely we can't be serious in connecting these two injuries. *And don't we really mean "systemic"?
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    Second most games in a season. People (including myself) forget that he played 140 games in 2017.
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    Buxton is reaching some milestones. Two homers tonight has him one short of matching his career high. If he plays Friday and Saturday, he'll match his second-highest games played. Has already exceeded his career high in RBIs and total bases. One steal from a 20-20 season. For his career, his next homer matches Kepler, the next Sano and the next Brunansky. Tonight he passed Jim Lemon into 13th as a Twin (plus one Senator). He passed Cuddyer and Mauer earlier this season.
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    Did a small brisket and a pork shoulder Sunday night through Monday afternoon.
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    If you go to New Comiskey, don't get the upper deck seats.
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  11. IndianaTwin
    Speaking of, shouldn't we be calling the backup outfielder James Oatman?
  12. IndianaTwin
    @Matthew Taylor, it looks like you've got the home and road series reversed in your list of interleague games. What's in the article are the home games.
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    Psssst.... While creating an account, consider becoming a Caretaker. Ad-free is awesome!
  14. IndianaTwin
    The Orioles plan to keep Basallo at catcher, but not as their primary one. They've communicated pretty loudly that they plan to split time between the two, with Basallo (and Rutschman, if he returns to form) getting additional at bats at 1B and DH. From what I've read, I wouldn't be surprised they're thinking 90/70 or 100/60 in favor of Rutschman behind the plate.
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    After I typed my (shorter 😀) rant, I realized that may have been using the $90M figure that way. In which case, we're likely even closer in agreement.
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    Lopez, Ryan, Ober, SWR, Matthews, Festa, Abel, Bradley, Rojas, Raya, Adams, Prielipp, Culpepper... Buxton, Keaschall, Lee, Lewis, Garver, Jenkins, Gonzalez, Rodriguez, Culpepper, Eeles, Fedko, Culpepper... Not seeing hope is at least partly a choice. Will enough of them come through? Who knows? But at least for me, approaching life with hope does my soul better (and is more fun) than the alternative.
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    Here’s the quote. Maybe not quite as explicit as I was remembering, but not hard to read between the lines: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/08/mike-elias-discusses-possible-prospect-promotions.html They brought Beavers up the very day that gives him 45 days. The Mets did the same with Nolan McLean. A couple of other teams did it in the next several days. I agree it was a smart move. Who knows what the next CBA brings, but if this rule stays the same, I think this will become pretty common practice.
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    White Sox, “once again destined for the worst record in baseball.” Apparently you have lots of hope in the Rockies, given that they are 10 games behind Chicago at this point.
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    Long opinion and rant, but I take a similar view. I’ll even go a step further. You said they can be competitive without a huge increase, but the $90M you came up with is a pretty significant decrease from this year. Try this on for size: They’ve shown a penchant for $10M free agents in Castro and then Vazquez. They seem to like having two veterans. This year’s free agent class of catchers is pretty weak, but I could see them quickly grabbing a $5M guy. Similarly, they’ve signed guys like Santana, Solano and this year France to play 1B (Solano wasn’t signed primarily as a 1B, but fits the profile.). So sign a $5M guy known for his defense. And then sign about four relievers totaling $10M as you work to build the rest of the bullpen from within. Guys like Coulombe.. People talk about them not having or communicating a plan, but I think it’s pretty unusual they would do that at this point. Additionally, I think the word is that the names of the additional investors will be made public after they are approved by the other owners. When that happens, I think we’ll start to hear some indicators as to whether there will be further cuts vs. some level of investment.
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    The Orioles won’t let Basallo exhaust his rookie eligibility. They pretty openly announced that they weren’t going to bring up Beavers and Basallo in time for them to get 45 service days. If they made the service time statement that openly, they aren’t going to let either of them get 130 at bats either. This isn’t a statement against Jenkins starting the season on the roster. I think there’s a reasonable chance they are positioning him to do so. Just a statement saying it’s also pretty likely Basallo will still be a rookie,
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    But for the record, Dobnak should have gotten out of the fourth scoreless. After the walk, Jenkins’ grounder was a tailor-made double play, but the second baseman blew it. Then after a bloop single, Dobnak got the next batter on a grounder that should have been the third out of the inning. You can’t assume the double play, so two of the runs were earned, but he shouldn’t have given up any. The three hits he gave up were a bloop and two seeing-eye singles. The most impressive pitcher of the night was Raya, however. He retired the first six, gave up a double, then got a dribbler and a strikeout looking before an error on the shortstop allowed the runner to score. And looked sharp doing it. Lopez did look sharp in his final two innings. I commented in the Twins game thread that with 68 pitches, it seems likely to think that his next outing will be with the Twins. It could come on Sunday on regular rest or on Monday when they will have been able to add an extra reliever if they don’t want him to go more than 80 or 85 pitches.
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    And here’s your game winner from Gonzalez: I drove the 2.5 hours to catch Jenkins’ debut and Gonzalez ended up being the hero. And after a fan yelled at Gaby at the beginning of the at bat, “Hey, Gonzalez. The state of the game is on your shoulders,” I may have stood to announce, “You’re right. The state of the game was on his shoulders!” as he rounded second.
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    True, that. However, I should note that Jenkins played the hop off the wall very nicely. The Toledo fence has a couple corners in the alleys and Jenkins adjusted to get the carom properly.
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    Maybe should have waited to post, but yes. He went six-up, six-down before giving up a long double about 10 seconds after I read your post. He should have gotten out of it, getting a dribbler in front of the mound for the first out and Akil Baddoo looking for the second. Then a hard ground ball up the middle ate up Holland for an error that scored the runner and Gardenhire came for him. Adams got the next guy on a grounder to end the inning.
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    Rough beginning for Pablo, with the first eight hitters combining to go for the cycle. The Mud Hens greeted him with double, triple, single, all hard hit. Then a towering homer in the second. He looked sharp over the final two innings. For the night, he threw 46 of 68 pitches for strikes, getting a number of swinging strikes on his change up. With 68 pitches, I could see him back with the Twins Sunday. Meanwhile, Dobnak looked good, but got burned by bad luck. He gave up three runs, two earned, but should have gotten out of the inning with nothing. He retired the first nine men, then gave up a walk to lead off the fourth. Jenkins hit a tailor-made grounder, but the second baseman booted it and got no one. After a bloop single, he got a grounder that should have been the third out. The three hits he gave up were a bloop and two seeing-eye singles. Not really a hard-hit ball night.
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