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🚨Twins call up star prospect Kaelen Culpepper · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: Well, welcome to the people who are filing in. We
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  Speaker 1: have some news on this Friday morning. There's another pro
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  Speaker 1: sports Minnesota Culpeper. Come on, Dan, do it with me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you do that. Hey, you got to
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  Speaker 2: bring something to the show. So, like I figur, it's
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  Speaker 2: all I.
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  Speaker 1: Got for the I hope the twelve people watching enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: that the Twins have called up star prospect Kaitlin Culpeper,
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  Speaker 1: primarily a short step had a glute strain injury earlier
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  Speaker 1: this year, but it's back now. The glute strain pandemic
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  Speaker 1: running through the Twins right now, but Culpepper is up.
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  Speaker 1: It's something fans have been clamoring for for a long time. Dan,
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  Speaker 1: why was now the time to do it? In the Twins' eyes?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, I think the Twins looked at this as
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  Speaker 2: the offense needs to get going right. We're nineteen games
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  Speaker 2: in after the All Star break, and potentially right now,
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  Speaker 2: they've scored three runs or fewer in eleven of those games.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen them have trouble with with the athletics with
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City, with just offense has not been very functional,
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  Speaker 2: and Ryan Kreiler's absolutely shored up the Defense, but his
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  Speaker 2: ops has dropped since he's kind of taken over the
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  Speaker 2: starting role. He's hitting somewhere around five hundred. So I
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  Speaker 2: think they're looking at bringing up Colepepper and maybe it'll
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  Speaker 2: be a combo of the two. Like I don't think
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  Speaker 2: we'd see Ryan Kreidler disappear from the flanneup all together.
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  Speaker 2: He's been so valuable to them and as a leader.
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  Speaker 2: He organized the movie going to event the other day.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that rented out the theater so they
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  Speaker 2: could see Spider Man. They were supposed to see the
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  Speaker 2: odysty in that that changed last minute, but.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wait, they didn't see the Odyssey.
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  Speaker 2: A bunch of guys did, like Bailey Ober and Joe
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  Speaker 2: Ryan and Royce Lewis and Royce Lewis and Trevor Larnak
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  Speaker 2: did a double feature. They went to the ten thirty
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  Speaker 2: Odyssey and they were willing to miss about like fifteen
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  Speaker 2: minutes of Spider Man, and they caught up with the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the guys in Spider Man. But they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to see the Odyssey, so they got up early and
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  Speaker 2: went and everybody was looking for a distraction. Anyways, Kredler
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  Speaker 2: set that whole plan in motion. Credler's still going to
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  Speaker 2: play for this team. His defense is too good. He's
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  Speaker 2: had some good moments. I think, you know, maybe he's
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  Speaker 2: been a little bit exposed offensively, just you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: never been a guy that's hit in the majors and
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  Speaker 2: seen every day. It's hard. They were given him good
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  Speaker 2: matchups early on, and so this allows the Twins to
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  Speaker 2: still play Kredler. But Culpepper's been you know, he's done
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  Speaker 2: nothing to hurt his prospect status the entire time since
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  Speaker 2: he's been drafted. He got drafted about twenty six months ago,
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  Speaker 2: and he's just kept knocking on the door ever since
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  Speaker 2: and going into this year. At the start of the year,
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  Speaker 2: one reason the Twins were reluctant to have him come
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  Speaker 2: in was because he you know, defensively, they had questions.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't sure if he was the shortstop, and they
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  Speaker 2: were really worried if he was a shortstop or not.
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  Speaker 2: He's answered those questions. I had someone tell me in June,
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  Speaker 2: prior to the glute injury, that he was already a
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  Speaker 2: plus five defender defensively, which you know, the Twins this
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  Speaker 2: year are somewhere around minus fifteen at shortstop, and Kridler's
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  Speaker 2: been really solid. Kredler's been like a plus one, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: But between brooks Lee and Tristan Gray, they were both
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  Speaker 2: minus eight at shortstop and it just wasn't They weren't
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  Speaker 2: having the success defensively early on, which obviously led to
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  Speaker 2: multiple changes at their shortstop position. And now here we
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  Speaker 2: are where Kalen Culpeper is coming up and the Twins.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's got to be exciting for Twins fans
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  Speaker 2: because all my mentions have said the last couple of
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  Speaker 2: days are with the offense struggling as much as it is.
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  Speaker 2: Where Walker Jenkins, Where's Kalyn Culpepper? Here you go, So
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  Speaker 2: four pitchers added in July and August, and now you
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  Speaker 2: got a short stop too.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Hayes here, of course, is the Athletics Twins beat writer.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote about Culpepper's call up earlier this morning. He
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  Speaker 1: can read it on the Athletic right now. But here's
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  Speaker 1: who he is if you're not too familiar. Twenty three
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  Speaker 1: years old, it's his third season in the Twins system.
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  Speaker 1: He has flown up the ranks. He went to double
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  Speaker 1: a last year in his second season and was the
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  Speaker 1: Twins Minor League Player of the Year and has been
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  Speaker 1: in Triple A all season this year, hitting two seventy
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  Speaker 1: one with an eight to forty five ohps, fourteen homers,
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  Speaker 1: forty six RBIs in seventy four games, and he unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: not related to Dante Culpepper.
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  Speaker 2: So just I don't think he's good to do that.
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  Speaker 2: You don't think he'll do that himself.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we'd eat it up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if if he wants to make that his
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  Speaker 1: home run celebration, I think it would go over pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think people are gonna like Kayln colepeper burn
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  Speaker 2: enough as it is. I don't think he has to
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  Speaker 2: do anything contrived or flashy. But you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you you keep pushing. If you want to come out
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  Speaker 2: to that in practice and show him, we can get
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  Speaker 2: some video footage of that and you can teach him maybe.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not too complicated. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: I need to show him, but uh, be good content,
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  Speaker 1: I guess if you will.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: The traveling motion basketball, to just start slow and then
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  Speaker 1: speed up. It's you know, there's not much to it, but.
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  Speaker 2: You really simplified it for me. Now, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I'll probably practice the rest of the day now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I like this move, like for the aggressiveness, like
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  Speaker 2: you think about and and it just sort of feels
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  Speaker 2: like the Twins are taking a different approach this year.
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  Speaker 2: They brought up kailing Or, they brought up Connor Prelip,
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  Speaker 2: and they brought up Kenry Rojas very early in the season.
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  Speaker 2: They you know, they were looking for injury replacements when
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  Speaker 2: Mickabel went down. They were looking, you know, they were
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  Speaker 2: they were pretty aggressive putting Mickabel in the rotation to
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  Speaker 2: start the season as it was. And and they've continually
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  Speaker 2: brought up the young guys and they've just tried to
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  Speaker 2: make the moves that they haven't in the past. There
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  Speaker 2: there seems to be urgency from the front office and
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  Speaker 2: there it felt like that's been the case all year
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  Speaker 2: and this just kind of goes along with that. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like bringing them up, you know, it is aggressive move,
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  Speaker 2: but also it's what is called for. Right now, this
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  Speaker 2: offense is stalling out, and the Twins they're serious about
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  Speaker 2: what they want to do. You know, I know that
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  Speaker 2: they've struggled and it was a frustrating start to this
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  Speaker 2: road trip. They're two and four so far. The offense
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  Speaker 2: just isn't doing a whole lot. In fact, if they
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  Speaker 2: don't rally for a three run deficit off that that
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  Speaker 2: Royals bullpen again last night, you go one in five,
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  Speaker 2: You finish the season series four and nine against Kansas City,
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  Speaker 2: which would have just been that's terrible. I mean, Kansas
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  Speaker 2: made a joke about it on social media last night,
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  Speaker 2: is like, you know, I haven't looked at the standings
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  Speaker 2: in a while, but Kansas City, who must be in
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  Speaker 2: first place by a large margin. And then I was like, oh, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City sucks. I mean, Kansas City has got the
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  Speaker 2: twins number. Noah Cameron had a good rookie year last year,
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  Speaker 2: but he has just dominated them and it feels like
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  Speaker 2: he put them in to a spell. So the timing
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  Speaker 2: is right here. They absolutely needed to do something to
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  Speaker 2: jump start this offense. Byron Buckston, it's not he said yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: it's slow going with his return, but he is starting
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  Speaker 2: to pick it up. But Bron Buckson is not doing
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  Speaker 2: baseball activity right now, so you know we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: you know, probably a little bit longer. He's July twenty
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  Speaker 2: ninth when he went on the il, and you know
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be I'm guessing it's gonna be at
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  Speaker 2: least ten days, but it's probably longer. I don't who knows.
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  Speaker 2: They have to get it right with Byron Buckston. Can't
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  Speaker 2: take a chance and bring him back and then have
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  Speaker 2: the hip bug him again. So there's gonna be certainty.
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  Speaker 2: And he said he appreciated yesterday the way that the
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  Speaker 2: training staff has gone with his approach all season and
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  Speaker 2: it hasn't worked, and so now he's gonna adhere more
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  Speaker 2: to them and give it a little extra time. So
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  Speaker 2: that makes me think, you know, last time was seventeen days.
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  Speaker 2: I believe before he came back. It's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit here for Byron bucks And so what way
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  Speaker 2: can you spark the offense? Kln Culpeper is a good,
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  Speaker 2: good shot at it, you know, power speed, gombo and
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  Speaker 2: you know he's he's been hitting. I think he's seven
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  Speaker 2: for seventeen in his last four games. He struggled initially
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  Speaker 2: coming back off the glute injury. And remember he had
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  Speaker 2: a glute injury like this could have happened in mid June.
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  Speaker 2: He was going and he basically you know, was hitting
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  Speaker 2: well and suffered the glute injury, came back for two
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  Speaker 2: games at the end of June, had a reoccurrence of
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  Speaker 2: a glute injury and really didn't get back until the
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  Speaker 2: end of July, and has struggled early on.
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  Speaker 1: There's always pressure in a young player's first opportunity in
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  Speaker 1: the major leagues. But I guess as these situations go,
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  Speaker 1: this one's easier that you know, this team is getting
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  Speaker 1: three four hits a game right now, so it's like,
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  Speaker 1: if you can give us one every week, we'll take
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  Speaker 1: it like it's you know, he will see what we see.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a big jump to go to the bigs.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, if if he can, if he can give
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  Speaker 1: that spark and maybe join Royce Lewis as another twin
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  Speaker 1: who's actually hitting the ball right now, it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: huge deal. The team needs something and this is what
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  Speaker 1: you can do at this time of year. Why not
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  Speaker 1: try it. Seeing some questions in the chat, one of
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  Speaker 1: them is about who's going out, the answer is, we
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  Speaker 1: don't know, and it feels a little weird to speculate,
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  Speaker 1: but you can draw your own conclusions on calling up
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  Speaker 1: a shortstop and what that means. The other question I
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  Speaker 1: think that also came to my mind right away is
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  Speaker 1: is Walker Jenkins next? And do we know anything there
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  Speaker 1: Dan about what the plans might be for him.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I would think that Walker Jenkins would be
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  Speaker 2: up if Byron Buxton was out for an extended period
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  Speaker 2: Walker Jenkins, the idea would be to play him every day,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think that they want to one he's
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  Speaker 2: not on the forty Man, and I know Kaylen Culpepper
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  Speaker 2: wasn't on the forty Man. That's part of the reason
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  Speaker 2: why we don't have an official move yet, because someone's
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  Speaker 2: going to have to go off the forty Man, and
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  Speaker 2: again we don't. We're not speculating. I learned a real
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  Speaker 2: good lesson from former twin Pat Neeschek about that way
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  Speaker 2: back when about what seculated I saw him on. I
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  Speaker 2: saw him on the phone in the clubhouse, in the
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  Speaker 2: Padres clubhouse, and they were making him move, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought that that was him going out to talk to
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  Speaker 2: somebody like his agent, and instead it was I tweeted
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  Speaker 2: about it, and Pat is very online, like always has been,
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  Speaker 2: like had a good social media presence early on, and
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  Speaker 2: so it must have been like twenty eleven, and he
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  Speaker 2: tweeted back in me, Yeah, I was on the phone
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  Speaker 2: with my wife and I was like, oh, I speculated
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  Speaker 2: on some guy's career and suggested he might be the
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  Speaker 2: one being moved. And it was like, yeah, I'm never
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  Speaker 2: doing that again, Like and that's stuck with me. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know there's plenty of speculation about who
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  Speaker 2: is probably leaving the twenty six man roster, and I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I I you know, a lot of it looks accurate
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  Speaker 2: to me, but I mean, I don't know for sure.
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  Speaker 2: The Twins got into to Milwaukee super late, Like I
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  Speaker 2: heard about this at one point thirty in the morning
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  Speaker 2: or two in the morning, something like that. And you're
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  Speaker 2: getting in and you're going to your hotel room and
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  Speaker 2: you're going to bed and you're wait until the next
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  Speaker 2: day starts. So I don't think they want whatever player
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  Speaker 2: to wake up and see that they're going out. But
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  Speaker 2: as far as Walker Jenkins, I just think that they
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  Speaker 2: would want him to play every day if he came
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  Speaker 2: to the majors that this isn't the case right now,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, you look around and they have a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of guys that are platooning, and I understand the
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  Speaker 2: desire for Walker Jenkins. He hit two home runs yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I would say one would not be a home run
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  Speaker 2: probably in the majors that I think the APO.
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  Speaker 1: Shot, don't nitpick, Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, ninety one point off the bat, it's down for
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  Speaker 2: a double.
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  Speaker 1: In Oakland or Sacramento, it might be and they play
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  Speaker 1: there a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Correct. But but like I understand the desire to see
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  Speaker 2: Walker Jenkins. He looks awesome. We've talked about it before
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  Speaker 2: in the show. He's saving fainting children, like he's a
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  Speaker 2: super cool right, But I think the way that we
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  Speaker 2: see him as if there's a more set, wide open role.
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  Speaker 2: I also think does the do the Twins want to
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  Speaker 2: have two rookies up at once trying to learn the
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  Speaker 2: major for the first time. It's a big challenge, the
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  Speaker 2: going from Triple A to the majors. The difference in
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  Speaker 2: pitching is so like they talked about the difference the
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  Speaker 2: gap being as big as it's ever been. You can
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  Speaker 2: see it. Look a bunch of guys are hitting nine
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  Speaker 2: hundred ops is in Triple A and they come to
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  Speaker 2: the majors and they struggle. Look at you know, Kyler
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  Speaker 2: Fedko came up and unfortunately he had a I believe
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  Speaker 2: a season ending injury at Triple A in this last week,
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  Speaker 2: which really sucks because he's a great dude who came
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  Speaker 2: up and you know, really turned himself into this potential
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  Speaker 2: major leaguer by selling out for power. And he came
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  Speaker 2: up and you saw how difficult the leap was. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know, he scored a run, I know he drove
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  Speaker 2: in a run, never got the single, never got the
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  Speaker 2: first space hit, and struck out a ton. And we
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  Speaker 2: saw it last year with Carson McCusker. We've seen it
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  Speaker 2: with guys come up and just making that leap is huge.
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  Speaker 2: So trying to two rookies at a time when you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to like that might be too challenging. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't I'm not saying that it's not something that
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  Speaker 2: a team can do, but it adds another level. But
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  Speaker 2: right now, Kaitlyn Culpepper's could come up and there's a
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  Speaker 2: chance he'll struggle, like this is a huge leap. The
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  Speaker 2: consistency of off speed, the consistency of commanders.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the Brewers for your first game Jacobi on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no Jacob Minzerowski's at Triple A, and like
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean so, so there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: learning curve, and I think to have two guys on
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  Speaker 2: learning curves might be a little bit of a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Now again, if if Byron Buckston was out for the season,
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  Speaker 2: we might see something different, but that's not the case
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  Speaker 2: right now. There there were optimistic Brons getting better and
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  Speaker 2: coming back, and so unless there's full time at bats,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we'll see Walker Jenkins. Could be wrong,
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  Speaker 2: but you know that's just my thoughts on it.
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  Speaker 1: Do they expect to have Culpepper tonight in the lineup
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee?
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  Speaker 2: I would, or at least with the team he'll be with.
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  Speaker 2: He's definitely come and join that. But I'm almost certain
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  Speaker 2: he's making his major league debut because I don't think
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  Speaker 2: I would have found out last night when I did
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  Speaker 2: if if he wasn't. You know, I don't think they're
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  Speaker 2: going to waste tame time. I don't know who they're
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  Speaker 2: facing tonight. If it's a lefty, you better be in there,
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  Speaker 2: because it.
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  Speaker 1: Is Shane Drow and two lefties to start the series,
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  Speaker 1: so there we know how that goes Peper will be
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  Speaker 1: in the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: I predict both nights. The Twins are really struggling against
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  Speaker 2: left handed pitching the year. It's just been not fun
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  Speaker 2: to watch and and so they're looking to switch it
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  Speaker 2: up and do anything they can and that that certain
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  Speaker 2: certainly would be a solution.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna wrap it up soon here.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any final questions to put in the chat,
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  Speaker 1: feel free to do so. One note, since we're here,
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  Speaker 1: we talked on Wednesday or Thursday. Sorry about how cold
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  Speaker 1: the offense has gotten for the Twins, especially the stuff
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  Speaker 1: they used to be doing so well earlier in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Hitting with runners in scoring position, hitting with two outs
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  Speaker 1: just not happening. And then hey, they got the big
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  Speaker 1: hit last night to end the losing streak. Brooks Lee
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  Speaker 1: coming through, found a hole and it was nice to
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  Speaker 1: see the Twins dig their way out of one.
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  Speaker 2: Brooks Lee like it was a sixty eight mile an
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  Speaker 2: hour ground ball with the eyes last night to get
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  Speaker 2: them through. And if you remember earlier in the game,
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  Speaker 2: he hit that line drive. He just absolutely smoked the
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  Speaker 2: line drive and Josh Bell was dumped off. There was
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  Speaker 2: nowhere for Josh Bell to go. That was like one
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  Speaker 2: oh four or one oh six off Brooksley's bat, And
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  Speaker 2: I mean he was afterwards asking him about it. He's like,
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  Speaker 2: this game is brutal. Man. He's like, I'm just glad
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  Speaker 2: that got through. He's like, we were just absolutely crushing
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  Speaker 2: the ball. And it's funny. Last night, the Twins on
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  Speaker 2: hard hit balls, so it's ninety five miles per hour
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  Speaker 2: or more, the Twins were three for eleven on hard
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  Speaker 2: hit ball. Hard hit balls typically have a much higher
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  Speaker 2: battan average expected bad and average the slug that goes
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  Speaker 2: with them. That's the kind of stuff that turns into
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  Speaker 2: extra base hits. Three for eleven is two seventy three.
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  Speaker 2: That's not bad. It's probably about three hundred points short
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  Speaker 2: of the expected average on those balls. And the Royals
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  Speaker 2: just kept whether it was their positioning or they're just
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: outstanding defense. To Royals really stimy the Twins the whole series.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, it just felt like everything hard hit found
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: a glove for three days and last week two. The
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Twins are very happy to be moving on from the
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Royals and done with them for the season.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: In this stretch of just lousy offense, shout out Royce
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Lewis one more time. He's got an eleven game hitting streak,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: three hitting three sixty six with a one point one ZHO,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: three ops in that time, three homers, some big hits
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: for the Twins in that stretch. Obviously, the walk off
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: against Kansas City in the home series last week been
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: quite a stretch for him. I think we get another
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: question maybe two oh. Will Buston be back for the
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Field of Dreams game. I'm assuming no at this point.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I just think it's gonna be
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: the fact that he hasn't done baseball activities. I'm sure
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: he'd love to. He said he's itching to get back,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: but again the last time now he did take as
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: he got a shot this time, so that might have
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: changed things with his recovery. But he hasn't done any
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: kind of baseball activities in that game six days away
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: at this point, so I think that's highly unlikely.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Makes sense.
• 18:38
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• 18:42
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• 18:46
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• 19:02
  Speaker 1: or have another taped show. We think this is it
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: till Monday. We said that on Thursday, but here we
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: are talking Caitlin Culpeper. So Brewers up next Friday through Sunday,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a really really tough game set of games for a
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: team that is struggling for sure, but we'll see if
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the Twins can do with it. Still very much in
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the race. A half came out in the Wildcard. They
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: actually gained ground these last three days on both Chicago
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and Cleveland, despite winning just one of three in Kansas
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: City because they were both swept Chicago in Boston, who
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: is just beating everything and everybody, and the Guardians at
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: home to the Mets, which it's a very tough stretch
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: for the Twins. It's Brewers, It's Baltimore, which is still feisty,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: then Philly in the Field of Dreams game, then Atlanta
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and then at San Diego and after all that, if
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: they can emerge from that still in this race, they
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: have five straight Ale Central series against Chicago, up and coming,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Detroit to each there, and then Cleveland.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: So here we go, everybody.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: We're gonna find out the final verdict on this team
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: real soon. Thanks again for listening, We appreciate it. We
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: will see you Monday on Twin Cities Territory.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Bye, everybody,