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5 days ago | 
twinsdaily.com | Matt Braun
Box Score Chris Paddack: 7 ⅓ IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 6 K Home Runs: None Top 3 WPA: Chris Paddack (.305), Byron Buxton (.143), Carlos Correa (.095) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) After a tepid start to the season, fortune seems to have found the Twins. Yet another uninspiring outing last Friday begat a five-game winning streak.
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1 week ago | 
twinsdaily.com | Matt Braun
TRANSACTIONS No moves were made on Wednesday. Saints Sentinel St. Paul 8, Buffalo 7 Box Score Andrew Morris: 5 IP, 8 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K HR: Ryan Fitzgerald (3), Mike Ford (7) Multi-hit games: Ryan Fitzgerald (3-for-5, HR, 2B, 2 R, RBI), Mickey Gasper (2-for-3, 2B, 2 R, 2 BB), Edouard Julien (2-for-5, R, RBI), Jeferson Morales (2-for-4, R)The Saints won on a walk-off on Wednesday.
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1 week ago | 
twinsdaily.com | Matt Braun
Once again, we'll take a close look at the best youngsters the Twins minor league teams had to offer, and crown one pitcher as the best of the best, while also spotlighting the other performers who deserved attention. Before we get to the list, let me quickly explain how I like to analyze starters. Innings are king; the ultimate point of pitching is to accrue outs, so I use innings as the center of my statistical solar system, in which everything else revolves around.
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1 week ago | 
twinsdaily.com | Matt Braun
Box Score Joe Ryan: 6 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 K Home Runs: Ryan Jeffers (2) Bottom 3 WPA: Louis Varland (-.140), Danny Coulombe (-.124), Carlos Correa (-.106) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) Fresh off a standard Cleveland series—what with the multiple walk-offs and unlimited late blown leads—Rocco Baldelli looked to change things up. The repetition felt stale; something about the team needed altering if they wanted to avoid the pitfalls of 2024.
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2 weeks ago | 
twinsdaily.com | Matt Braun
TRANSACTIONS RHP Cole Percival signed and assigned to A+ Cedar Rapids RHP Agustin Campusano assigned to DSL Twins RHP Michael Ross activated from 7-day IL (A Fort Myers) RHP Will Armbruster assigned to FCL Twins RHP Matt Canterino re-signed and assigned to they 7-Day IL of AAA St. Paul So concludes our right-handed pitcher update.
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2 weeks ago | 
twinsdaily.com | Matt Braun
In the fourth week of each April, the NFL Draft upstages even actual baseball games and the NBA Playoffs, at least in many American households. Is it realistic—or even desirable—for the MLB Draft ever to approximate that level of mania? “You want to televise what?” then-Commissioner Pete Rozelle incredulously replied, when a fledgling network called ESPN brought their desire to broadcast the NFL Draft to league officials.
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2 weeks ago | 
twinsdaily.com | Matt Braun
Just don't ask what happened to Luke Keaschall. Box Score Starting Pitcher: Pablo López: 5 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 6 K Home Runs: Byron Buxton (6), Trevor Larnach (4) Top 3 WPA: Trevor Larnach (.202), Pablo López (.099), Byron Buxton (.090) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) Fresh off (mostly) beating up on the White Sox, Minnesota entered Friday with the opportunity to collect wins against another meager opponent: the Angels.
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3 weeks ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Matt Braun
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There were no moves made on Wednesday. The Saints won a breezy opening game of their doubleheader. Andrew Morris remains peripheral agnostic. He does not care. Walks. Strikeouts. The man only cares about one thing: outs, and he’ll claim them regardless of what nerdy FIP or FIP-adjacent stat you throw at him. Wednesday was maybe his magnum opus: three walks, five hits, two strikeouts, and—critically—zero earned runs. Majestic.
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3 weeks ago | 
twinsdaily.com | Matt Braun
If I had a nickel for every Alabama native who made a start on Wednesday, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice. TRANSACTIONS There were no moves made on Wednesday. Saints Sentinel Game One: St. Paul 5, Indianapolis 1 (Seven Innings) Box Score Andrew Morris: 4 IP, 5 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 2 K HR: Mickey Gasper (2), Mike Ford (3) Multi-hit games: None The Saints won a breezy opening game of their doubleheader.
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3 weeks ago | 
twinsdaily.com | Matt Braun
Finally, a disadvantage for tall people. Ten innings into 2025, a concerning trend with David Festa is continuing: his fastball isn’t cutting it. He’s allowing a .357 batting average against the heater, and the under-the-hood stats suggest it isn’t a fluke; that pitch is just far too hittable. If he wants to become a regular in the Twins rotation, something will need to change.
