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Game 20XX: Twins @ Yankees
Alex Rodriguez, the series' main antagonist, builds a new fortress and army of robotic henchmen, led by eight new Robot Masters of his design: Dellin Betances, Aaron Hicks, Derek Jeter, Kevin Maas, Thurman Munson, Waite Hoyt, Carl Pavano and Jack chesbro. Ervin Santana is sent by his creator, Paul Molitor, to defeat A-Rod and his Robot Masters.
Game 55: rays @ twins
With exactly one third of the season in the books, our intrepid crew is on pace to win 48 games. That would be....not good.
It would actually be the fourth worst record (winning percentage-wise) of the integration era. It would involve losing 114 games, which would be the 6th most in the "people playing baseball" era. The 1906 Cubs didn't lose this many games in their entire season, and we're sneaking up on the 2001 Mariners' 46 games.
The nice part? They don't look like the fourth worst team in history, so it should probably get better from here - but they would be advised to hurry up and get better.
Let's see if Ervin Santana and Byron Buxton can start the resurgence.
No Twins on Leaderboards this week, but Nunez is on the batting average chart (5th) and Mauer has sneaked back on the OBP chart (7th).
Game 50: twins @ athletics
Let's keep it going!
Santana vs.... Some oakland pitcher
2016 – Game 40: Toronto @ Minnesota
Ervin Santana faces off against Marco Estrada. While both pitchers sport 1-2 records, Santana has managed 29.1 innings over 6 starts with a decent 3.38 ERA and 3.36 FIP, but a 1.50 WHIP, 124 ERA+, opponents batting average of .281 and BABIP of .341 and only 27 strikeouts on the year.
On the other hand, Estrada has pitched 43.2 innings in 7 starts with a shiny 2.89 ERA, a 3.64 FIP, 1.14 WHIP, 141 ERA+, opponents BA of .199 and BABIP of .241 and 41 strikeouts. He's seen only 2.06 runs/9 of support compared to 3.38 for Santana...we'll see how it goes.
The Twins brand has lost it's luster during the first 8 weeks of the season ... more losses than wins, poor hitting, fielding, pitching, managing and roster construction in general resulting in lots of moves in non-competitive season. Moves that appear to be, to borrow a well-worn analogy, like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Hopefully for the long-suffering diehard fans (5 of 6 years of 90+ losses!?) and those youngsters in the stands getting their first taste of live baseball (there's gotta be a few families taking advantage of the dirt-cheap secondary market, eh?) may the home team bring home a win today!
Game 35: twins @ the edge of the yawning abyss
I'm doing yard work on this beautiful, crisp spring day.
Santana vs. Kluber.
Joe Mauer is good, Nuñez is surprisingly good. Park hits dingers. There's your Twins on Leaderboards.
Two nine game losing streaks in the first quarter season would be a bad look. Let's win one here.
Game 30: twins @ white sox
Well, that was a fun week...
The 1-4 record (in which our opponents outscored us by 17 runs) was bad enough, but between Pohlad's comments ('don't blame us! blame this ragtag crew we've assembled!') and the rampant shuffling of deck chairs, it would be easy to lose faith.
That's not what we're going to do, though. The team is on pace for 117 losses, but I don't think this is one of the worst teams in modern baseball history, so pretty soon, we'll see #itshappening everywhere, and we will have to remind ourselves that no... it's not happening yet. Soon, though. Probably. I'm sure there will be a winning streak around the bend somewhere.
It probably won't start today, though.
2016 Game 1: Minnesota Twins at Baltimore Orioles – Opening Day Edition
DAY GAME ALERT!
From hell's heart, we stab at winter: Baseball is back! The Twins open the year in Balmore, or at least they'll try to. Rain is threatening throughout the afternoon, so we'll see when/if the game starts. We've been waiting so long though that a little more waiting shouldn't hurt, right? Yeah, me neither...
Here are two teams on the bubble, with both expecting big things this year. And judging by the poll in today's CoC, everyone is full of optimism!!!!11 Let's start things off on the right foot, eh? Here's hoping the first the inevitable 162 game win streak is an entertaining one!
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Game 150 Recap: Twins 3, Indians 1
One of the oldest cliches about baseball is that it's a game of inches. Like many cliches, it's a cliche because there's a lot of truth in it. We got some examples last night,
Tiggers at Twins
This game matters.
What a nice thing to be able to say. I'll be hitting up Target Field a couple of times still this season, and its a great feeling to know that the games matter still.
The Tigers are sending out Daniel Norris against the Twins. In turn Ervin is going to mow down some MoTown folk.
Lineups:
Go Twins!