Fact or fiction: Have the Twins' opponents played horrible defense against them?
Short version: Yes. Longer version: Yes (but with lots of exclamation points).
Short version: Yes. Longer version: Yes (but with lots of exclamation points).
Plus my decision to go independent, extending Connor Prielipp, Royce Lewis in St. Paul, writing about the Wolves, and what to order at Yangtze.
Short version: Yes. Longer version: Yes (but with lots of exclamation points).
Plus my decision to go independent, extending Connor Prielipp, Royce Lewis in St. Paul, writing about the Wolves, and what to order at Yangtze.
Spoiler alert: He's looked really, really good.
Jeffers was off to a great start offensively and defensively, and the impending free agent will be nearly impossible for the Twins to replace.
Less than a week after demoting the .167-hitting Matt Wallner to Triple-A St. Paul, the Twins made the same decision with the .163-hitting Lewis.
After dismantling the bullpen at last year's trade deadline, the Twins did nothing to rebuild it. And now Ron Davis has entered the chat.
Roch Cholowsky and Grady Emerson are likely to be off the board, but there are plenty of promising consolation prizes for the Twins.
It wasn't a pretty first 41 games for the Twins, but they've had plenty of standout individual performances worth appreciating.
Aaron Gleeman has been covering the Minnesota Twins for over 25 years. He co-hosts the Gleeman and The Geek podcast and was previously senior writer at The Athletic, editor-in-chief at Baseball Prospectus, and senior writer at NBC Sports.
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