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He broke out of it!

He respects umpires too much I guess, lol

That's about as good as you can expect out of a Fedde start.

For a guy with a great eye, that makes no sense.

Rays must have seen us waste both challenges and decided not to risk it. That was not close to a strike lol.

Uh they didn't challenge that?

Our wRC+ since the All-Star break is like 85. We've gotten by on pitching for the past 2 weeks.

I know Fedde has looked pretty good today, but you can't let him face this lineup a 3rd time.

Eh, Sheets is what he is. He's not exactly lighting it up in San Diego either. He always has a nice hot streak every year and then goes back to being a .700 OPS guy.

Robert and Colson can be bad back buddies.

Fedde getting hit much harder the 2nd time through.

It only took a year for the holes in his swing to really pop up for an extended period of time. He needs to adjust back.

Martinez had only allowed 11 homers in 117 innings prior to tonight.

Absolutely loving Mune going the opposite way on offspeed and breaking pitches.

Tropicana sucks to hit at cause the batters eye is bad. I remember Cruz got traded there and absolutely sucked. I don't think it's a coincidence that the Rays were mid last year and then they move back to the Trop and all of a sudden they have the best home record in baseball.

But did he give up a homer to Bartolo Colon?

Especially if what you're after is projected performance and not what he's already done.

There's definitely some sunk cost fallacy when it comes to him. We traded Curtis Mead for him, who just got the Nationals a top 50 prospect. So there's probably a feel like we need to get something of real value out of him because we traded so much away.

I guess the concern with his profile is that he strikes out a lot. But he also walks a lot and hits for a lot of power. He might also not stick at catcher, which will affect his value as a prospect. He's also 23...so if he doesn't keep progressing like he has down in the minors, he might lose his prospect status in 2 years.

Yeah I'd hate to trade a catcher that's raking for a rental having a bad year like Peralta. I guess the good thing about Peralta is that he's only making $8 mil this year so he's cheap.

FanGraphs has both these around the top 50 for the Twins.

Doubt it's much. Minter's a decent reliever making a lot of money this year ($11 million).

Wow the Twins are actually buying.

Some things to add on here: The change in arm angle and release point is very obvious. Pre-injury: 32.1 degree arm angle, release point of (5.78, -1.97) Post-injury: 37.9 degree arm angle, release point of (5.98, -1.87) This has resulted in a higher whiff percentage (up 9%) and less balls (7% decrease). He's actually generating less called strikes, but more whiffs and fouls. There's been a real change here and that's what's encouraging about how good he's been. Hopefully he keeps it up.

I thought Ron made this thread and immediately thought that Colson will go on a hot streak.