Trevor Bauer
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Phil Hughes
The Twins are one shy of matching their 2013 win total. Ten games remain, so reaching 70 wins is possible, especially with three games against the D'backs, I think they'll fall just shy.
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September 19, 2014: Not the End
...of the UK as we know it. My vaguely correct knowledge of geographical and political names remains correct until the next referendum.
WGOM Fingerprint Words
After seeing that fingerprint word article, it got me curious about the fingerprint words of the Citizens here. The long list below is not quite that, but it is close. What follows are the five most used words for each Citizen after removing the 250 most common words of the site. Due to the simple word extraction I used, contractions lose their apostrophe. That means "wouldn't" will show up as "wouldn".
2014 Game 141: Angels at Twins
Matt Shoemaker
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Ricky Nolasco
Matt Shoemaker had a 5.38 ERA in 423 innings at AAA. He has a pi ERA in 117 innings in MLB. Welcome to not being in the PCL anymore.
2014 Game 134: Minnesota Twins at Baltimore Orioles
Trevor May
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Miguel Gonzalez
2014 Game 127: Barely 2nd WC Tigers visit Twins
Robbie Ray
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Tommy Milone
Two castoffs face off tonight. The Tigers decided they had too many[1] starting pitchers and Fister was the worst[2] of the bunch. Off he went to the Nationals and the Tigers get a few not-that-good players back. He is only 22 though.
The A's traded for the rest of the good pitchers in the league and Milone was the odd man out. He got traded for his own teammate.
[1]: The Tigers learned the hard way you can never have too many.
[2]: Fister's rWAR would be third on the Tigers pitching staff.
2014 Game 120: First Place Royals visit Last Place Twins
Danny Duffy
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Ricky Nolasco
Nolasco makes his triumphant return to take on the Royals. Just the starter the Royals want to face to keep their hold on first.
2014 Game 114: Minnesota Twins at Oakland Athletics
Kyle Gibson
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Scott Kazmir
2014 Day Game 112: Padres at Twins
Day game alert!
Odrisamer Despaigne
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Kevin Correia
2014 Game 108: Minnesota Twins at Chicago White Sox
Logan Darnell
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Chris Sale
Because last time this worked out so well, both teams are doing it again.
After this game, there will be one-third of the season left. The Twins have done a lot of losing in the first two-thirds, so now they're in the 54-game stretch where they win everything, right?