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Twins are eliminated: Our biggest questions for their offseason · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: The inevitable is now official after a split in Anaheim
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. The Twins are eliminated from playoff contention. They
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  Speaker 1: actually won on Sunday when they were still technically alive,
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  Speaker 1: played their best game of the series, an 8-0 win.
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  Speaker 1: And then later that day, the Chicago White Sox beat Detroit,
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  Speaker 1: and that officially did it. Both the White Sox and
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland have now cracked the 80-win mark, and Twins cannot
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  Speaker 1: get there. So no pathway to the central title or
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  Speaker 1: the third wildcard spot. for the twins, which we've seen
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  Speaker 1: coming for a while, but it's now official twin cities, territory,
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  Speaker 1: your Minnesota twins podcast here on the foul territory network. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and we are headed now into a long off season guys. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it'll start. We know next Monday, the Sunday regular season
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  Speaker 1: finale will be the final game of the year Sunday
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  Speaker 1: at target field. And these twins will go into 20, 27, uh,
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  Speaker 1: or the off season ahead of 20, 27 with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of questions to sort out. Um, we'll have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time to talk about all this for sure,
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  Speaker 1: but let's, yeah, Let's tee it up today as we
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  Speaker 1: sit here on this Monday morning. What comes to mind, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: as one of the biggest questions for you for this
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  Speaker 1: team in the offseason?
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  Speaker 2: Probably what the rotation looks like. And that there was
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  Speaker 2: that wrinkle thrown in on Sunday. And I know that
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  Speaker 2: Tyler talked about a little bit, but Bailey over coming
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  Speaker 2: out of the bullpen. And that was, you know, becoming
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  Speaker 2: the 14th pitcher to get a save this season for
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  Speaker 2: the Twins, which isn't. growing team record, but they won't
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  Speaker 2: catch unless they have three more guys they can throw
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  Speaker 2: out there randomly and get three more wins. They won't
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  Speaker 2: set the all-time record, which was the downbacks from last year.
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  Speaker 2: But anyways, the fact that Bailey came out of the bullpen,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, we're looking at this rotation for next
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  Speaker 2: year and it's Pablo Lopez has come back and Mick
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  Speaker 2: Abel's going to come back and what are they going
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  Speaker 2: to do with Joe Ryan and Bailey Ober because Connor
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  Speaker 2: Prelip looks pretty good and Dean Kramer has more team
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  Speaker 2: control and Zebby Matthews certainly should be in consideration.
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  Speaker 3: Is there an eighth guy? Is that all eight? I
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  Speaker 3: think that's all of them.
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  Speaker 4: That's enough to make it a question.
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  Speaker 2: They're eight, you know, and what are you going to
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  Speaker 2: do with that? Especially with Joe Ryan with one year
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  Speaker 2: left and Bailey Ober also.
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  Speaker 3: Getting up there.
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  Speaker 2: It's certainly a question that they will have to address.
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  Speaker 2: And the fact that Bailey came out of the bullpen
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  Speaker 2: with seven games to go, suggests maybe that's what he's
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  Speaker 2: going to do the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what that means for next year.
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  Speaker 1: Dan's at Midway Airport, by the way. Everybody, if you're
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  Speaker 1: watching on YouTube, he's on his way to San Francisco
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  Speaker 1: for the final road series of the season. Tyler, what
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  Speaker 1: about you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, to Dan's point, the rotation looks great. Considering it's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of pieces to juggle and a lot of
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  Speaker 4: what-ifs and things like that, It's one of those, like
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  Speaker 4: we talked about, the left-handed hitting outfielders. They're going to
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  Speaker 4: have a lot of options in the outfield to pick from,
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  Speaker 4: some moves to make, some decisions on some guys that
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  Speaker 4: they really like, I'm sure, are going to have to
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  Speaker 4: move on from. It's a good problem to have, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 4: for the Twins. You've got a lot of guys that
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  Speaker 4: are good, that are maybe ready to be full-time big
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  Speaker 4: leaguers or ready to get a full shot. Even a
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  Speaker 4: guy like Roden comes up yesterday, and still bangs out
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  Speaker 4: like three hits. It's just like, you have all these
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  Speaker 4: guys and it's like, what do we do with them? Um,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and, and the, the real wrinkle of everything
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  Speaker 4: is going to end up being this, the lockout situation
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  Speaker 4: with the CBA. Um, you know, hopefully they can get
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  Speaker 4: some things on paper before that starts, but, uh, it
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  Speaker 4: cuts off a lot of communication and discussions to be had. And, um,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the plans I'm sure like exit meetings will
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  Speaker 4: probably start this week. You know, with some guys, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Shelty kind of sitting down. I'm sure Jay-Z and whoever
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  Speaker 4: else will be on the road. You know, maybe some
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  Speaker 4: will be, I guess, at last home series. But, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's always a weird time of year. But I think
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  Speaker 4: they made the right moves getting the young guys up
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  Speaker 4: this year, especially, and getting a lot of opportunities to
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  Speaker 4: see guys against big leaguers. And, you know, you hope
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  Speaker 4: guys come back from the DL or IL, you know,
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  Speaker 4: all the respective surgeries they've had. There's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a lot of movement going on next spring. um you
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  Speaker 4: know a lot of good things a lot of guys
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  Speaker 4: fighting for jobs and that's what you want that makes
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  Speaker 4: the team good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah certainly a lot of guys to to dive into
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  Speaker 1: individually sort of about where where their place will be
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  Speaker 1: on the team going forward which again we'll have a
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  Speaker 1: few months to to look deeper into all that but
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  Speaker 1: i'd say uh in addition to those questions i wrote
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  Speaker 1: down three because i knew you guys would take two
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  Speaker 1: of them uh in some fashion or another but I
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  Speaker 1: think on the offensive side, I'm very curious about what's
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  Speaker 1: next with Royce Lewis. They obviously have moved him around
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  Speaker 1: the field at first base. He looked so good after
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  Speaker 1: he had that AAA reset for a while. And then
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  Speaker 1: in the last 30 or so games, it's really gone
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  Speaker 1: downhill again. He's got a 450 OPS since mid-August. Still
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  Speaker 1: striking out a lot. And just not the production you
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  Speaker 1: want at first base for sure. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I have a hard time saying move on from a
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  Speaker 1: former number one pick.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, those are the guys we like that may have
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  Speaker 4: to move.
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  Speaker 2: Right. No, the production at first base, if that's where
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  Speaker 2: they keep him, has to be greater. They need, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, 30 home runs. I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 2: the standard, if that's realistic at first base anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Like how many guys actually hit 30.
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  Speaker 2: But you want that prototype, that run producer, and you
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  Speaker 2: want someone that can hit and field That's the one part.
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  Speaker 2: If you can combine Josh Bell and Royce Lewis, you
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  Speaker 2: have the perfect first baseman. Josh Bell's over 90 RBIs
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  Speaker 2: and coming through in big spots and been a good,
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  Speaker 2: consistent run producer. Royce Lewis has the defensive component of
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  Speaker 2: it down, but the offensive side has certainly been missing.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a real question.
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  Speaker 2: Without looking too deep into it, you look around and
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  Speaker 2: Brooks Lee has been phenomenal at third base, and that's set.
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  Speaker 3: Kalen Culpepper is your shortstop.
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  Speaker 2: Cody Clemons, I can't imagine them moving forward without him
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  Speaker 2: being part of the team, given what he means inside
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  Speaker 2: and all the clutch home runs. He's almost at 30
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  Speaker 2: home runs, so he's probably second base, and your outfield
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  Speaker 2: is well set.
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  Speaker 3: So first base is kind of that one.
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  Speaker 2: undefined area you would think dh especially after byron buxton
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  Speaker 2: had surgery and by the way we talked about that
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  Speaker 2: long winter and no communication um seems gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: get its ducks kind of lined up with byron in
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  Speaker 2: a row because he's gonna be in rehabbing this hip
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  Speaker 2: with a lockout going on and you know, obviously there's
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  Speaker 2: good medical professionals. They're going to send him ahead of
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  Speaker 2: time to someone that they trust. But I mean, like
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  Speaker 2: that is a big deal for, uh, this off season
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  Speaker 2: because Byron's hip means so much, but yeah, there, there
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  Speaker 2: are quite a few questions to be answered as we, uh,
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  Speaker 2: turn the page.
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  Speaker 1: And the bullpen as well. Uh, you know, right. So,
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  Speaker 1: so much of the first half of the season, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Morris and Andres Gomez settled into those backend roles.
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  Speaker 1: They've struggled in the second half. Uh, Jeff Hoffman has
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  Speaker 1: been a great addition for sure. Uh, the, the other
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  Speaker 1: additions to the bullpen have been more hit and miss. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Nance was a rollercoaster again the other day, uh,
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  Speaker 1: got out of it and got the job done. But, um,
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  Speaker 1: so it seems like, you know, did those guys just
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  Speaker 1: hit a wall? Will they bounce back and be just
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  Speaker 1: fine next season? And if they, and maybe more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: how do they stop them from hitting a wall again
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  Speaker 1: next year, if that is the case and same for
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  Speaker 1: Joe Ryan to no less. Um, So a lot to
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  Speaker 1: work through. And we have 20 or 30 episodes coming
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  Speaker 1: up to do that. But I don't know. Did we
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  Speaker 1: miss anything?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I think we're good on that.
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  Speaker 4: That's a lot of bases. That's a lot of bases.
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  Speaker 1: Every facet of the team has a major question.
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  Speaker 2: I did want to say, I had been thinking about
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  Speaker 2: you guys over the weekend when they finally got eliminated
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  Speaker 2: because I kind of felt like this was like the
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  Speaker 2: contest in Seinfeld.
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  Speaker 3: And I.
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  Speaker 2: like i've been sleeping great because i was like i'm
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  Speaker 2: out like two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Ago and you guys were just holding out hope and i.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're out there watching william shatner heavy metal
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  Speaker 1: concerts in the mud while.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler and i are still hanging out by the mud
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  Speaker 2: this is not a joke when i say this they
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  Speaker 2: were so ill prepared for two days of rain i
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  Speaker 2: have never like physically walking through mud ankle deep at
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  Speaker 2: one point yesterday. Like it felt like I was ice
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  Speaker 2: skating on mud. It was pretty much the most disgusting thing.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have proper footwear on?
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  Speaker 3: I did not. I was an idiot. I was an idiot.
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  Speaker 2: I had, fortunately I did have proper footwear in that
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  Speaker 2: it was an old pair of sneakers that I was
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  Speaker 2: willing to throw out if anything happened.
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  Speaker 4: And man, those are somewhere on the.
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  Speaker 3: Way to, yeah. Well, it was entertaining though.
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  Speaker 2: William Shatner rocking through inner Sandman was pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Dan is now bragging about being the first to bail
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  Speaker 1: on the 4.3 percenters, which tells you all you need
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  Speaker 1: to know the true 4.3 percenters out there knew that
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  Speaker 1: Dan was an imposter the whole time. And there we go. But, uh,
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  Speaker 1: seriously to all, all of those, uh, all of you
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  Speaker 1: who followed along with our 4.3 percenter shtick, uh, we
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. It was a fun time. It was, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I did not expect them to still be in it
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  Speaker 1: as of the final few weeks of the season. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: In that respect, it was entertaining. Obviously, as we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about many times, that was largely due to the crappy
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  Speaker 1: American League, and it masked a lot of bigger problems.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of teams, too, for that matter. I'm in Houston,
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  Speaker 4: and the fans aren't showing up yet because they're not
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  Speaker 4: any good. It's like, well, they're still going to make
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  Speaker 4: low season. Like they're still in it guys. It's just
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  Speaker 4: a weird, everyone's afraid to get excited because they know
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  Speaker 4: how bad everyone actually is. It's, it's been, it's weirdly entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of interesting stuff still from the
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  Speaker 1: weekend on the field for the twins. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Twins, as we said, a split this weekend
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  Speaker 1: against Anaheim. One on Anaheim. Let me see, Friday and
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  Speaker 1: Sunday and then extra innings losses on Thursday and Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: We already talked a bit about Thursday's game on Friday's show,
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  Speaker 1: but the focus of Friday's show was Walker Jenkins because he,
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  Speaker 1: after we had just done a show, saying, is it
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  Speaker 1: time to worry about him? He hit a game-tying over
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  Speaker 1: in the ninth inning on Thursday, and he did not
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  Speaker 1: stop there, guys. Nine hits and 17 at-bats over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Was it 17?
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  Speaker 1: Yep. um it was incredible hit another homer um i'm
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  Speaker 1: forgetting which day that was saturday sunday.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was uh i think it was thursday
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  Speaker 2: it was friday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah friday yeah um so heck of a weekend for
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  Speaker 1: him he is now um he has he's the all-time
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  Speaker 1: leading hitter by ops in angel stadium history 1.438 probably
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  Speaker 1: doesn't qualify after only four games but still um pretty
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  Speaker 1: nice yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, take it to the hall.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, raised his batting average 121 points. All in all, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's against the Angels, but you had to
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  Speaker 1: find the swing somewhere. And who cares exactly?
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  Speaker 2: Wait, wait, wait. Reed Detmers was on the mound. Urena
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  Speaker 2: was on the mound. These guys are like good pitchers.
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  Speaker 2: This is not like, okay, look, this is not, just
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  Speaker 2: because they're a bad team doesn't mean they're, pitchers still
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  Speaker 2: have the pride out there. They're like, they want to
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  Speaker 2: get you out. They don't want to look like idiots.
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  Speaker 2: And Walker Jenkins, like those, those count. regardless of who
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  Speaker 2: they're playing at this point. Although the Giants resemble a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a quad A team, so maybe you
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  Speaker 2: can keep it going in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: Be careful.
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  Speaker 3: Look, they wanted this team to.
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  Speaker 2: The Twins were hoping that Walker Jenkins would give them
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  Speaker 2: just a little bit of a glimpse of this.
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  Speaker 3: They were pleased with what he said about his headspace.
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  Speaker 3: They were pleased with the fact that he was confident.
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  Speaker 3: And they weren't concerned. They knew he would turn it around.
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  Speaker 2: Even if it was next year, they were willing to
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  Speaker 2: concede that. But to get the results as quickly and
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  Speaker 2: to have them have four good games like this and
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  Speaker 2: just show a little bit of what it looks like.
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  Speaker 3: And it does look an awful lot like Joe Maurer,
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  Speaker 3: except with more power.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know that it's like a ton more power,
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  Speaker 2: but I think there's like 20 homer power in there, 15,
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  Speaker 2: 20 homer power. But spraying the ball everywhere, uses the
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  Speaker 2: whole field and knows the zone well and knows what
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  Speaker 2: he can hit. And I mean, this looks fun. Like
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  Speaker 2: this was exactly what they were hoping to get from him.
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  Speaker 2: And so it relieves that one question for them before,
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  Speaker 2: can he do this even like, is he going to
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  Speaker 2: scare off? And I think when you get a sense
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  Speaker 2: of a guy, like when they get a hot streak going,
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  Speaker 2: you can see how all encompassing it is. Then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all right, it's in there and, and he's going to
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  Speaker 2: figure this out. And I think they were just hoping
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  Speaker 2: for a spark before it ended. I don't think they
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  Speaker 2: expected it to be that quick, but it was, and
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  Speaker 2: it's great for them.
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  Speaker 1: During that one for 33 slump or whatever it was,
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  Speaker 1: there was a portion of that where he was one
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  Speaker 1: for 25 with 14 strikeouts in that stretch. And he
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  Speaker 1: only struck out once this weekend. So really, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just night and day. And, you know, it's one series, Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. But like, yeah, to Dan's point, we said,
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  Speaker 1: why should you still watch this team after it became
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  Speaker 1: clear that they were not going to make the playoffs?
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  Speaker 1: And this was one of the biggest things.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, he was in the leadoff spot yesterday. Like,
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  Speaker 4: that tells you they're already like, all right, bud, here
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  Speaker 4: you go. Like, we know what we've got. They are
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  Speaker 4: clearly trusting him, wanting him to get a lot of
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  Speaker 4: at-bats right now. You know, and the results showed. Like,
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  Speaker 4: even the broken bat hits, you know, it's like that.
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  Speaker 4: Kieschel's been that at times. You know, Jenkins can be
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  Speaker 4: that guy if you want to alternate him, you know,
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  Speaker 4: depending on who's pitching or whatever. But those are two guys–
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  Speaker 4: that are great pieces to have at the top of
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  Speaker 4: the lineup and they're table setters. You know, Jenkins got speed. He's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the lefty, all the things that you want
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  Speaker 4: in a, you know, a historic, you know, lead off batter.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's, he's got all the things like Dan said,
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  Speaker 4: he's got, he's got some juice. Like, you know, we're
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  Speaker 4: kind of comping him to MVP Joe at this point,
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  Speaker 4: you know, when he hit his 30 homers. So it's like,
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  Speaker 4: if that guy can hit 20 and play center field
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  Speaker 4: and be, you know, just a fire starter every day, like,
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  Speaker 4: That's what you want in a first-rounder. That's what you
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  Speaker 4: want in a top-10 prospect, all the things he is.
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  Speaker 4: He showed it this weekend, and if he can just
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: keep doing that and finish strong, I think there's nothing
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: but positives in the future because he went through the
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: big lull already. He got his hand into him a
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: little bit, and he saw it, and he powered through it,
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: and he stayed positive. That's the toughest thing in baseball.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: You talk to anybody who's ever played, It's the mental
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: grind of showing up every day after getting a loss
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: handed to you over and over again. It's like you
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: just have to keep going, and he did, and he
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: stayed positive, which is the hardest part. It's easy to
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: get into a dark place and go down the rabbit hole,
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: and he's coming out looking great and looking like the
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: guy we called up. That's the spark we needed, and
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: he's here. It's just a week too late.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: You've got to build up to being able to stand
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: for nine innings.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Right, Dan? You do.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: You really do.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Why are you trying to give me that jacket back?
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: I don't want the green jacket for– anyways.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: That's your statement.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Wonderful. Five years ago. We just had a ceremony commemorating
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: the moment. So that's great.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Anniversary. You got to take advantage.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Also this weekend, the Twins shut out the Angels twice
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: and obviously in the two wins. The starting pitchers those days,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Connor Prelip and Dean Kramer. It was career best seven
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: innings pitch for Connor Prelip. He gave up– oops, I
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: messed that up. That's three hits combined between them, not
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: one hit. But Prelip gave up two. Kramer gave up
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: one hit in six innings, no earned runs, and 16
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: combined strikeouts between the two of them. Dan, I guess
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I'll start with Prelip. For a guy who has been
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: on injury watch– pitch count limit to have him come
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: out in late September and throw seven shutout innings, again,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: against the Angels, but who cares? Mike Trout's in the lineup.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Zach Netto's in the lineup. That's got to be pretty
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: encouraging for the Twins how to do the offseason.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: He's flourishing. He'll run into issues.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I think maybe two starts ago, he got into the
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: fifth with a shutout and gave up, or maybe with
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: one run allowed and gave up two runs. His command
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: kind of got away from him. You can tell at
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: times where where the physical stuff is catching up to him.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: But he, like, has held his stuff. It's been good. And,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: you know, this is a guy that they're keeping a
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: close eye on. And we're not talking about just velocity,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: and we're not talking about just pitch location. But they're,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: you know, measuring his, like, intangibles. They're measuring how, like,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: what is it, jumps? What do you do, Duff, in
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: between starts?
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, the force plates.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: They make you jump on the sensors and it reads
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: your pressure into the ground. And you know, they tell.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: You, they want to make sure you're not weak leg
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: and things, right. They want to make sure that you
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: have the leg muscle to go out there. So you're
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: not like hurting your upper, like throwing all arm essentially.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: It all starts from ground.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: That's for sure.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: And, and so I think, you know, they're keeping an
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: eye on this and letting them go. And man, he
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: is just going and it's great. And it's given him
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: so many minutes, the moments this year. I mean, this
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: is a guy that taught himself the curveball at the
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: start of the season. So, you know, in January, he's
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: been throwing that curveball since January to give him another pitch.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of room for growth with him. This
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: is sort of like silly buddy right out of the
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: can or Play-Doh right out of the can, like where
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: you get to mold it and build it. Like this
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: has been, yeah, this has been a very encouraging, I mean,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: they put that graphic up there today about how many
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: innings he'd thrown and his inning in each of the
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: previous five or six seasons and he's now surpassed or
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: he's close to surpassing the past five seasons.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: It's insane where he is and that he's able to
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: do this.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: It's really nice to see and he's had a very
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: good first season.
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Tyler, the The ERA overall is still near five,
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: but again, in September, four outings, only two were starts technically.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: What's the strikeouts per innings?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: 19 strikeouts overall, 125 in 120 innings, so a little
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: over one per year. But a 2.11 ERA in 21
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: innings in September for a guy who you're worried about
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: if he can hold up, pretty nice.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: And I think they've manipulated the schedule to keep him
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: fresh and give him opportunities to kind of get some
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: extra things. He had a little blister flare up midseason.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: That's seemingly in the past. It's looking like he fortunately
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: has figured out a good plan for himself to be healthy.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: A lot of guys have issues with injuries. It's just
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: the way of the world now. Guys are thrown so hard.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: you know, and he's maintained his velo. He hasn't had
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: those outings where it's like, you know, he's down to
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: 91 out of nowhere and we're like, what's happening. You know,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: he's had electric stuff all year. I mean, you're making
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: good hitters across the league look bad on your slider
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: and your breaking ball. And then, you know, he's still,
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: he's such a calm presence on the mound. And then
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: it just, it comes out hot, man. He's, you know,
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: he's ripping it 97 up to 99 at times. Like
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: he's got electric stuff. They're going to be careful with them.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I know it's still next year, even, and, and, That
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: makes me think, too, like there's a world where maybe
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: to start the year they roll out with the sixth
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: starter or try to, like, spread some of these guys
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: out because you're going to have so many guys coming
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: off of surgeries. Like, you're going to have to figure
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: out a way to get them all work and without,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: you know, putting the throttle down too quickly. So, you know,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: I don't know what the options are. Again, there's people
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: that pay more money than me to figure that stuff out. But,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: you know, it's exciting because he's a guy that I
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: don't know that anyone thought he was going to be this.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: They knew he was going to be good. He's a
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: prospect-y guy. But to make big league hitters at times
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: look as bad as he does, it's going to be
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: a great piece to have going into next year and
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: have a full, healthy season under his belt. That does
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: so much for his mentals. He's had surgeries. I think
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: he's had two Tommy Johns, I think, right? So he's
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: had his issues. He's now back healthy, had a full
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: season in the big leagues. He's going to be riding
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: a pretty good high heading into camp next year.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Dean Kramer was obviously a trade deadline acquisition for the Twins.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: At the time, it was just sort of, we got
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: injuries everywhere. Let's shore up this rotation however we can. Now,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: nine starts for the Twins, 3-8-0 ERA for the guy
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: that you brought in just to patch up the back
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: end of the rotation. Pretty darn good. Best start of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the year for him for the Twins, well, I think overall, too,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. Six innings, one hit, eight strikeouts. And then
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Bailey Ober came in out of the bullpen to clean
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: that one up. We'll talk about that, too.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: And, hey, Joe Ryan pitched well.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: So did I.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: And Taj, aside from that first thing. So they had
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: really good starting pitching in this series.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Not like Kramer. I mean, you mentioned the 3-8 OER. Look,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: they got him. They knew he was a 4.2 OER.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Even though he had like a 6-5 and a 7
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: starts at Baltimore this year, they knew he was hurt.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: They knew he wasn't what he normally is.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: And that he could come in and be the guy
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: he's been, basically, with the Twins.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: They hoped there was a little bit better. Like, you know, 4-2.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: ERA in the AL East, they were hoping maybe it
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: dropped a tick. If he's a 4-ERA guy, and he's
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: giving you 30 starts and six innings at the back
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: end of your rotation, you're thrilled with that. Like, for,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: you know, your fifth starter or your fourth starter, he's
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: got Velo to do it. He's learning some new tricks
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: with them that he's applying, so... Like, I don't see
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: any problem with what the performance has been. There's been
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: some inconsistency, and he struggled like everybody else a couple
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: weeks ago, but, like, it's just been solid. And there's–
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: it's not perfect. Nothing– you've got to figure out, like
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Duff was saying, with guys coming off surgery, there's puzzle
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: pieces to try and figure out how they all fit,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: and it's going to be challenging, especially because what are
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: you really going to– what can you expect from Pablo
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Lopez coming off Tommy John next year? Mick Abel– still
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: hasn't had that first full season under his belt, so
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: he needs that. But there's pieces on the edge that
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: help out and make it very interesting. Brilip and Kramer
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: certainly do that, and Zebby Matthews is interesting. Again, what
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: they do with Bailey Ober and Joe Ryan are probably
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: the biggest questions of the offseason at this point.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Speaking of Ober, he pitched the last three innings of
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Sunday's win. One hit, three strikeouts, no walks. Nice outing
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: for him. in relief. Also add him to the list
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: now of players who've recorded a save for the twins. Tyler,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: what did you think of him coming out of the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: bullpen yesterday? I don't know.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: It's, I think he was out there in case prelips
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: went shaky, got shaky, you know, whatever had to happen there.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: He obviously had a great outing. So he was back
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: out there yesterday and obviously they had conversations inside, you know,
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: I'm sure, Words will come out. It happened yesterday, so
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: I'm sure guys will ask Shelty, maybe even Bailey about it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: And it's a guy, they're probably looking to see maybe
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: he got a take up in Velo. Maybe it gives
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: him something to unlock, some mechanical things. Sometimes you need
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: the situation where, hey, I don't need to throw 90
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: pitches today. I'm going to throw these three innings and
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: be done no matter what. And so it gives him
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: the freedom to go kind of let it fly and
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: see how it feels. You know, he's another guy he's
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: had some injuries in the past and they've always been
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: pretty cautious with him. And I think that's a sign
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: that maybe they're willing to kind of move on from
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: that and maybe experiment with him a little bit. You know,
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: a guy like him, if he's, if he can come
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: out of the bullpen, if it works out and he's
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: up to 93, 94, like that's kind of like that
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Chris Young back in the day when I was coming
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: up where, you know, he was throwing literally like 85
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: coming out of the bullpen, throwing invisible fastballs. Bailey, If
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: they hang on to him and move him to the pen,
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: maybe have him be their long guy. That could be
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: a dominant piece coming out. The guy's almost seven feet tall.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: If he can run that heater up to the low
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: to mid-90s again, that's a big piece potentially. I don't
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: know what their plans are. That's to be seen, but
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: it looked pretty good. He popped a 91, I think,
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: in that first inning. I don't remember all his velos offhand,
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: but he definitely got a little tick up even just yesterday,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: first time out. You know, I'm sure today, you know,
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: waking up, he'll probably be a little sore, a little
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: different action than a normal starting routine. So I don't know.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: It's a good thing to see. I mean, he's been
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: an organizational guy for so long. You know, the end
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: of that road's kind of coming, free agency and arbitration,
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: all that stuff's on the horizon. So they're making some
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: moves to maybe get ready for next season, like we're
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: talking about. Like, you never know. Stranger things have happened.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: You know, I showed up to camp to be a
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: starter one year and ended up in the bullpen and
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: then throwing the seventh by the end of that season.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: So it's, things happen quick.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll, it would be a great piece to have
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: somebody who can come in in those situations when the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: starter doesn't have it, but still feel good. They can
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: keep the game reachable. Something the twins need for sure.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: One more shout out. If you like what you hear,
• 27:35
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• 27:39
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• 27:42
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• 27:46
  Speaker 1: have a long offseason ahead, a lot of Twins baseball
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: to talk about, and we are looking forward to it.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Should be an eventful few months. Tyler joins me still.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Dan had to bail to catch his flight there at Midway,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: but we can bring it on home, the two of us.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Some miscellaneous items from the weekend. First of all, Tyler,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: this was perhaps the most eagle-eyed challenge I've ever seen
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: by Ryan Chambers. Two-strike pitch in the fourth inning. I forget, again,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I'm having... I don't remember which day this was now
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: as I have it here on the screen.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: It looks like it was a night game.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: It does look like a night game. So probably Saturday.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Challenge the ball that, man, if you're listening and not watching,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the very tippy top of the strike zone, the corner,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: is just like you can't get much closer to being
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: a ball than that. And somehow it was called a ball.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Jeffers challenged it and got the strike three call. uh, yeah,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I think he's had a pretty good season overall with those.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: I think he said like 60% ish. Like, I think
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: he said at a hundred challenges, I think now, which is,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, compared to other teams, uh, there's, I mean,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: there's other teams guys won't even do it for whatever reason,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: but yeah, he's been, been great in that. That's a
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: tribute to him. I mean, as a catcher, you know,
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: part of the art of the framing was realizing like,
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: you know, where the strike zone is and being aware
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: of where pitches are and crossing and, you know, he's confident.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: I think that's part of the hardest, probably the hardest
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: part in doing it is having the confidence to know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: even after you've tried to frame it and manipulate the
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: zone a little bit to, to know like that was
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: a strike regardless of what happened. And I think that
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: we've seen that a lot. He hasn't had anywhere. There's
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: that hesitation to where he goes to tap. Maybe it's
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: like he catches it and he's boom, tapping that thing,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: looking to the dugout. And so, you know, that's an
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: undervalued thing. You know, we've talked about it a lot. Um,
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm sure the off season, you know, MLB
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: networks and those will talk about things like, you know,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: catchers who are really good at it or not. And he's,
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: he's on the top of that list. And I think
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: to that matter, Caratini has been really good as well.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: So it's, uh, whatever, you know, our, our catching group
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: behind the scenes has been working on. Um, it seems
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: like they've got a pretty good plan in place and
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: hopefully it translates because if he's not back next year,
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: you know, a lot of those walks turn to strikeouts
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: or leverage counts swinging back and forth. Like that's a
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: big piece to have. And it's now it's part of
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: the game. It's not going anywhere. So it's a, it's
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: something now I guess catchers will be graded on and,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: you know, guys, I guess all off season will be challenging,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: you know, pitches in the bullpens that they're catching from guys.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know, but yeah, it's, it's been fun to
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: watch and it's, it's like I said, it's a useful,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: it's super useful and a big momentum swing when it happens.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, as a pitcher, you get behind a guy
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: 3-1 and instead it's 2-2. That's a huge difference in
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: an at-bat. It's a huge thing to have. Like I said,
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: hopefully whoever ends up catching next year full-time, hopefully they
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: can be half as good as Jeff Spindler.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. Another big question for the offseason that we
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: kind of didn't bring up at the top of the show.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I am a sucker for the old Piranhas draft. twins,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the ones who beat you with hustle and smart defense
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and just smart play all around. And there were a
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: couple of moments this weekend that kind of brought me
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: back to that. First of all, Luke Kieschel would have
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: fit right in on that team, always playing his absolute hardest.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: But he had a moment in Saturday's game where he had,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: it was a broken bat that just snuck past Netto,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I think, into left center field for what should have
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: just been a single. Walker Jenkins had to check up
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: on the on the hit to make sure it got
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: through because he was at second base. They waved him
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: in and he scored. I'm forgetting who fielded it now
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: in the outfield, but they, I think maybe Meckler.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, left fielder.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: But he sort of hitched on the throw, didn't know
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: where to throw it. Meanwhile, Luke Kieschel just kept running
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: and ended up on second base, which should have been
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: a routine single. Jenkins, of course, scored. Then Kieschel steals
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: third base, then scores on an infield grounder with the
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: infield in. It got past the pitcher, which was enough
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: for him to break for home and score. And then
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: in the same game, I believe, no, sorry, Sunday, Ben
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Ross scored from first on a stolen base.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: That was insane. Yeah. That one was crazy.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: So he stole second. The throw from Ballesteros, like, went.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: It was a perfect throw, and Neto just.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Didn't touch it. I think Neto tried to deke him.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Because Ross, so I watched it. So Ross comes in.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: He didn't slide, first of all, which is– I was like, whoa,
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: what happened here? So I think Neto or Nito, he
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: kind of tried to deke him, and then he whiffed
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: on the catch. And so then the merry-go-round started, and
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: he just kept going.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was– so I think it was Jose Siri
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: in center field, yeah.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: He was playing very deep. I'm not forgetting who was up,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: but so the ball goes into center field, but it's
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: kind of, it was Neto hit it with his gloves.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: So kind of knocked it down a little bit and
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: it just died out there.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: The urgency wasn't quite there.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: And Siri was like jogging his way in, but Ross
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: was also just jogging to third because why would you
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: assume you're going to score on an overthrow? Waves him home.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: He picks it up and scores pretty easily. Actually. It
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: was pretty incredible. And again, The Angels played terrible baseball
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: on Sunday, and that was probably the most shining example
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: of it. But those Piranhas teams, that's what they did.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: They took advantage. If you fell asleep for a second,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: they were on top of it, and it was nice
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: to see. I'm not sure Mr. Ross has a place
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: on the opening day roster, but obviously Luke Kieschel will
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: be a major, major centerpiece of next season's team. All right.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Twins are off to San Francisco. Final road trip of
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the season. I know they have Zebby Matthews on the
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: mound tonight and then Taj Bradley tomorrow. At least that's
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the schedule and TBD still for Wednesday. We'll be back
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: with you on Wednesday. I'm not going to preview a
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: meaningless series at this point, but we'll continue to see
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: what the youngsters can do, what everybody else can do
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: to make their cases for getting a good start for
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: next year. We'll be back with you Wednesday. Friday, we're
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: going to do our season awards show. And then next week,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: programming note, we're going down to two shows a week
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: now officially with the Twins not going to the postseason.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: And I think we decided Monday and Thursday was the day.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Is that what we talked about?
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that sounded right.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: So we're going to shoot for that. Our personal schedules
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: might mean we have to tweak that once in a while,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: but that'll be what we do. Full breakdowns of everybody
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: and everything going into the offseason, what the Twins need
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: The nitty gritty.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: The nitty gritty, absolutely. Absolutely. I appreciate everybody listening. One
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• 34:38
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• 34:44
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