The Twins are coming of a disappointing series in Detroit, only winning 1 of 3 games. Overall I would say the season is a bit surprising on the good side. It just may by one of those deal where Detroit is a real bad matchup for us and they are going to win 14 games against us ever year.
The Twins come home to play Tampa. Phil Hughes starts for the Twins. Jake Odorizzi throws for the Rays. Odorizzi has an interesting transaction history as he has been part of two mega deals in 5 years. First the Zach Grienke to the Brewers trade (a trade decidedly in favor of the Royals) and the second trade was the Wil Myers/Ordorizzi to the Rays and the Royals get James Shields/Wade Davis. That trade seems to have worked out for both teams (Myers being spun off tot he Padres this past off season). Further down the road, it will be interesting to make a Odorizzi Trade Tree.
Go Twins Go.
The Twins were 10-9 vs. Tigers last year. This year may be just a case of regressing to the mean.
Oh goodie. Jack Morris is in the booth.
sigh.
Is anyone else following Jose Berrios? I'm this close to starting a grassroots #FreeBerrios campaign.
I am really excited about Berrios, probably more than I have a right to be. I try to follow his games as they're happening, and whenever he lets someone on base, I feel like "Hey, what's up with that?" My irrational exuberance may lead to disappointment, but I'm hoping he'll be promoted to Rochester soon.
Rays OFer miss the cutoff throw, Mauer takes second. Nice!
I'm listening, so I can't see the visual, but (except when they're absolutely stupid), I like this aggressive base running style. SEND HIM!!
Well, there's the obligatory home run off of Hughes. It seems less disastrous when the Twins score before that happens.
Bull Dozed!
HBD Dozier HR!
Odorizzi pitched in the spring training game I saw this March. The trick to getting to the bullpen on him is to play him early in spring training so that he's on an extremely short leash.
Btw, my phone wants to spell check Odorizzi as "Odor ii"
All I can think of is this song
httpv://youtu.be/-XVW58zOTyI
This is what happens when you have infielder play the outfield. sigh.
Hughes agrees.
Thus far this year, Escobar's metrics are about average in the OF, which of course means he's the second-best OF the Twins have (not counting Hicks). Schafer's are actually the worst.
Huh. Imagine if we had at least an average outfield...
I just watched the replay of this on MLB.com. #lazy
I didn't authorize this headshot.
Moustakis just needs an HR for the cycle. Do it, boyo.
Time to get Hughes some runs.
Triples are sexy!
Obviously, Santana & Hicks were the two players I picked to save the game.
Triples are awesome.