chw42

Lucas' velocity looks good, he just hasn't been able to put away some guys with 2 strikes. The double plays have been real helpful so far.

At least they made Peralta sweat a little bit.

They're definitely gonna walk Collins. This is why NL baseball is terrible.

Imagine pitching around Leury Garcia

AV!

Also what is Peralta doing? The pitcher isn't supposed to catch infield popups unless they absolutely have to.

That slider probably hung too much.

Thanks Avi!

Not a good start here after having Adames at 0-2.

Yeah I don't see us scoring a lot this series.

Oh boy and I thought that guy who wanted Kopech for Gallo was delusional.

There's a tweet storm from national writers about Story to the Yankees. Almost makes me think it's close to a done deal.

?

Yeah these pitching matchups are rough. I don't think we've faced pitching this good in a 3 game series all year.

Hunter is probably out for the year. Seems like some sort of salary swap. The Rays are big weird.

Maybe part of the contingency of the Cruz deal is that he had to be the oldest player on the roster lol.

I actually didn't know Ryan was 25. These guys are pretty close to ML ready and that actually works out well for the Twins if they're trying to retool instead of full out rebuilld.

Cruz has torched us cause we keep throwing him hittable 4 seam fastballs. If you throw him cutters in the zone and sliders just out of it, he's nowhere near as dangerous as he has been against us. He's struggled against cutters for a while, I just think we didn't have enough pitchers who threw cutters this whole time he's been with the Twins until recently.

Yup. If it came out that we had to trade Kelley and Stiever for Cruz, this board probably would have exploded.

Yeah that's a really good for half a season of a DH. We definitely can't match that package for someone like Cruz. We got bigger holes elsewhere.

Strotman is probably top 10 in our system. Ryan is almost top 100.

The last thing I want is to face Nelson Cruz at the Oakland coliseum.

I mean he was gonna get traded to a playoff team in the AL.