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Oh, didn't realize he was already into the game for defense. Mendick could be a PRer, as well.

Have to run Hamilton...take your chances.

Great piece of hitting there by Mercedes. PR? Need an XB hit from Eaton here.

Indians also in the process of blowing their big lead over the Angels, now 5-4.

Now you're the one who's freaking out, haha. We get Shoemaker (or Pineda?) tomorrow, not Berrios. He's the only one to really be worried about. That said, the sweep was there for the taking, and now it's going to be a battle. At some point, the Twins have to get a walk-off, 1 run or extra inning victory, especially at home.

I think Bummer alone now individually has at least 4 blown saves...

Bummer gave up that homer on a 95.3 MPH sinker. He usually throws the ball harder than that...96-98. Refsnyder the hottest current hitter on their roster.

Well, there's blown lead #11. Had too many opportunities to extend the lead with RISP and didn't get it done. Woke up a hitter who I think was in the 130's or 140's at the beginning of the game.

Other than that his first name is Zach/Zack, which is a pretty darned cool baseball name... http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?ID=164273 Had 93 at-bats for the Twins in 2017 with pretty limited power.

So who gets beaned by the Twins now....tough choice between Grandal and Yermin. That said, I wouldn't want to mess with Lance Lynn if I was on the other team.

Yeah, but he's never been good at judging them off the crack of the bat despite being right inside the stadium with a bird's eye view.

Grandal and Benetti have one thing in common....terrible perception about home run balls.

Twins quite fortunate to only surrender one run that inning...guess the Anderson and Grandal balls were both well hit?

When are the Rays going to call up Franco....sheesh, what does the poor kid have to do? It's not the Rays' offense at the major league level is anything to write home about.

Where are they going to bean Mercedes, that's the main question here...then they will put in Pineda? Moncada at .810 and climbing. Let's hope Stone has another opportunity to make an idiotic and unfounded assertion.

Haha....Lamb-ka-bomb. Where the heck is Pineda, another PED's suspension? Even Lamb's at a 760 OPS....we must be leading that category of sub .200 hitters with decent OPS lines.

BURGATRON....homer #4. Top prospect in the Sox system rising like a speeding bullet. Average up to .231, .876 OPS. Of course, the top six hitters in the Charlotte line-up are ALL over .853. Charlotte numbers are more hyper inflated than the crypto and NFT/SPAC markets.

Let's fix Luis Castillo and buy him low on the sly...you can't go from Top 5 in the Cy Young voting to THIS in one off-season...it's like he's the baseball version of David Duval.

They will if they want to continue to grow the game internationally...because they're soon to collide with a demographic challenge, running out of 49-57 year old white dudes in 'Merica. ANd WHO the HELL is Bailey Ober? Sounds like a newspaper delivery boy from the late 1950's in Danbury, CT.

Yermin is benched, sent to Charlotte or traded? Yerminator burgers no longer offered on orders from the "fun police"?

Way to try to ruin the best early-season story in MLB, Karate Kid LaRusso. Go, Johnny!!! Take down the "false" dojo.

Let’s talk something realistic. What would you be willing to give up to add Max Scherzer to be our version (see Astros) of Verlander down the stretch and into the postseason? Because having a guy who has done it (Keuchel can’t be trusted, Lynn will be there for sure if healthy) is worth its weight in gold. Of course, as of today, Cease/Kopech/Rodon all look like legit threats to start post season games with Lynn...Giolito has lots of time to right the ship, but how many are still left standing ay the end of the season? You can even go to a six man rotation or put Kopech in the pen (mostly) to preserve/protect his arm from going beyond 120 ip. It likely won’t happen, Hahn is nothing if not risk-averse compared to KW, but imagine this team and adding Scherzer, Robert and Eloy to it. Does TLR have any connection to Scherzer?

Mark or Mike...heck, we’ll throw in Kirk Ferentz, too.

With those outfield arms, anything but a bunt would be an automatic out...

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=2b&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2021&month=0&season1=2021&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2021-01-01&enddate=2021-12-31 One game pushed him up to 20th out of 26 2B. 0.1 to 0.4 shift, back to the much more acceptable 1.6 fWAR pace. Marcus Semien leading with a 6.0 projection. Btw, Tim Anderson #18, Yoan Moncada all the way up to 21st overall. Yermin, a 4.8 fWAR pace.