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The 2026 Ham & Eggies: Our Twins MVP, best moment and more awards · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: Well, two of us got the memo that it's a
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  Speaker 1: fancy award show today. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the
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  Speaker 1: 2026 Ham and Eggies, the first ever Ham and Eggies,
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  Speaker 1: our twins season awards. I'm your host, Zach Pierce, joined
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  Speaker 1: as always by Dan Hayes and Tyler Duffy. Dan and
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  Speaker 1: I owe the athletic Tyler, of course, the longtime Minnesota twin. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: it is not exactly the type of season that people
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  Speaker 1: are going to love hearing awards given out for. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to warn everybody off the top. This
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  Speaker 1: is a This is going to be a fun show.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a few months to get into all the
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  Speaker 1: issues in the offseason, which we will starting Monday. And
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  Speaker 1: we have a little bit already earlier this week as well.
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  Speaker 1: But today is all about this season and awarding the
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  Speaker 1: top performances from around the diamond with the twins. We
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  Speaker 1: have eight different categories. We asked for your help with
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  Speaker 1: a couple. Here's how the voting worked. It was very scientific.
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  Speaker 1: The three of us voted. I sent the ballots to
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  Speaker 1: Ernst & Young. They laughed at me and said, are
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  Speaker 1: you kidding? This is just three ballots. I said, good point.
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  Speaker 1: I tabulated all the results. If we had a majority
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  Speaker 1: for one pick, we went with it. If all three
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  Speaker 1: of us pick something different, we put it to a
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  Speaker 1: fan vote, which only happened one time. And we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that later. So that's really it. That's all there
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  Speaker 1: is to it.
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  Speaker 2: It was predictable.
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  Speaker 1: It was predictable. And anything else to add, Dan?
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  Speaker 3: The suits and the dry cleaners.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: For those who are listening, Tyler and I, spruced up
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  Speaker 1: for the moment with jackets and, uh, Dan has a
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  Speaker 1: hoodie on, but that's okay. That's okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: My, my suits in Chicago. Sorry. Sorry. That's all good. Didn't,
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  Speaker 5: didn't prepare, uh, well enough. I apologize.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, what happens happens.
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  Speaker 1: One other note. Um, twins are obviously they have one
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  Speaker 1: series left this weekend, Texas at target field. Um, we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to spend much time previewing that they can
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  Speaker 1: play spoiler to the Rangers, but obviously their hopes are over. Um, but,
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  Speaker 1: One guy we should touch on, who we will right
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  Speaker 1: here in the first award, is the person whose season
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  Speaker 1: ended on Wednesday with another strong start. That is Connor Prelip.
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  Speaker 1: So without further ado, let's get to our first award,
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  Speaker 1: which is Rookie.
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  Speaker 5: Of the Year.
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  Speaker 6: Whatever the hell that is.
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  Speaker 1: And it's Connor Prelip. Very nice. That was thanks to
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  Speaker 1: Tyler and I. We were the two who picked Prelip. Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: what made it stand out for you with Prelip?
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  Speaker 2: Man, he went wire.
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  Speaker 7: To wire, basically showed up as a rookie, injury passed,
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  Speaker 7: all those things, and.
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  Speaker 2: Solidified himself as a piece for next year, I think.
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  Speaker 7: In a lot of ways, he had a little hiccup
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  Speaker 7: maybe in the middle there, but he's a dominant lefty,
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  Speaker 7: young kid that's still learning to pitch and is only
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  Speaker 7: going to get better And it's taken huge steps. And
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  Speaker 7: his last two starts were some of the strongest of
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  Speaker 7: the year, I felt like. He went, what, his longest
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  Speaker 7: outing of the year was the one before in Anaheim and,
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  Speaker 7: you know, finished strong in San Francisco. And, you know,
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  Speaker 7: enjoy these next couple days. Get you a couple massages.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe have a couple beverages during a game or two.
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  Speaker 2: You know, never know. But, yeah, hell of a year
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  Speaker 2: for Connor.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm sure the Twins and his teammates and everyone
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  Speaker 7: involved are very excited to have him around this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he tossed the seven shutout innings in his second
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  Speaker 1: to last start in Anaheim and then two runs in
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  Speaker 1: five and a third in San Francisco. His last six
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  Speaker 1: starts were all pretty excellent to have a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a bump. But I think, you know, I looked
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  Speaker 1: at Culpepper, but just with only 40 games, it was
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  Speaker 1: tough for me to say that was enough there to
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  Speaker 1: give it the award. And you're right, with the injury history,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he pitched the whole season basically and
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  Speaker 1: finished strong, even if the overall ERA isn't exactly popping
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  Speaker 1: off the page. remember our, our pool of candidates for
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  Speaker 1: this award is rookies on the twins. So, so you
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  Speaker 1: have to, uh, take that relatively, but Dan, uh, Dan disagreed. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: wait for somebody who's okay.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say, straight to it.
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  Speaker 3: He, he, uh, two 36 era over his last five starts.
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  Speaker 3: Like he, yeah. 26 and two thirds in ends, uh,
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  Speaker 3: in September, you know, at the, at the point where
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  Speaker 3: he was like, um, at a career high in innings, he,
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  Speaker 3: he thrived. So, I mean, he's a, he's a great choice. I,
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  Speaker 3: I chose Andrew Morris.
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  Speaker 5: I just thought Andrew Morris is fair.
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  Speaker 2: He was a close second for me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He like, I, I, I thought he had an excellent
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  Speaker 3: season out of the bullpen all year. I mean, he,
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  Speaker 3: he obviously hit some, uh, hit a wall a little bit, um,
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  Speaker 3: especially in August, but he was just such a force
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  Speaker 3: for them and a huge development because that bullpen was
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  Speaker 3: so unsettled and he came in and did a good
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  Speaker 3: job with that, but no, no, uh, No problem with
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  Speaker 3: Connor Prelip. I think, you know, obviously the inning count
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  Speaker 3: is amazing. The fact that he threw more innings this
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  Speaker 3: season than he had basically in the last six years combined,
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  Speaker 3: he was outstanding. So very good year for him and
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  Speaker 3: something that I think the Twins are excited about definitely.
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  Speaker 7: It's bad on me for leaving the reliever out to
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  Speaker 7: dry per usual. So starters get all the glory.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, congratulations to Connor. We'll move on now to our
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  Speaker 1: second category of the day, which is our most improved
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  Speaker 1: twin of the year.
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  Speaker 6: And the winner.
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  Speaker 8: Is Brooks Lee.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations, Brooks Lee. You're going to hear Brooks Lee's name, uh,
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit today. It's the first of a few times,
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  Speaker 1: at least, uh, and it's a, it's a good choice. I, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't go with Brooks Lee. It was you two
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  Speaker 1: who picked him. I think Tyler, you picked like seven
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  Speaker 1: people for this category, but we went with Brooks as
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  Speaker 1: the tiebreaker. Uh, but yeah, no, uh, pretty huge improvement, uh,
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  Speaker 1: was in the lineup almost every day, but the statistics
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  Speaker 1: certainly bear it out. But Dan, why don't you, uh,
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  Speaker 1: why don't you give the induction speech for Brooks?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think just the, it was talking to Mike
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  Speaker 3: Caruco the other day in San Francisco, the Giants, uh,
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  Speaker 3: legendary broadcaster and he said and he's known brooksley his
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  Speaker 3: whole life he said he has belief he has confidence
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  Speaker 3: now and that's what it really comes down to is
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  Speaker 3: that he trusts in himself and you can see it
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  Speaker 3: and you know he's taken off to the point where
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  Speaker 3: he's hit what 24 home runs 24 yeah yeah second
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  Speaker 3: yeah it was very clutch with runners in scoring position
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  Speaker 3: you know the ops plus is is solid it's like
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  Speaker 3: 105 which means he's just a little bit above average,
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  Speaker 3: but the defense at third.
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  Speaker 5: Base has been spectacular.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he is top 10 league defensively at third base. And,
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  Speaker 3: and I think you just see a guy who, who
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  Speaker 3: knows what he can be and looks like a piece now.
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  Speaker 3: And that's not something that I was thinking. I didn't,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know if Brooks Lee was going to turn
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  Speaker 3: the corner. And that was a question coming into this
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  Speaker 3: season last year was, uh, the power showed up, but
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  Speaker 3: he was, that wasn't what his game was supposed to be.
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  Speaker 3: And he took it and ran with it this year. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like the other day, Kruko told me he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna hit 30 to 40 home runs. He's got TNT
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  Speaker 3: in those hands. So, um, I think that's, that's somebody
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  Speaker 3: that we can, you know, expect to see more of
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  Speaker 3: based off what we saw this year. It's a good
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  Speaker 3: kind of real found himself year. And, and, um, building
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  Speaker 3: a kind of nice platform or, or base for future success.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler, you mentioned the games played 153. He was in
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  Speaker 1: the lineup almost every day. And crucially for a team
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  Speaker 1: that had a lot of players who dropped off and
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  Speaker 1: hit the wall has played well through to the end.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And, and the move early on, you know, the, the
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  Speaker 7: little bit of a, I don't know, I won't call
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  Speaker 7: it a log jam, but the shortstop dilemma, you know, and,
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  Speaker 7: and he, Moved over to third, and we talked about
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  Speaker 7: him the other day. Ironically, he just took to it,
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  Speaker 7: like I said, a duck to water. It was a
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  Speaker 7: smooth transition in season in the big leagues, and early
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  Speaker 7: on it was like, okay, what's going to happen? And
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  Speaker 7: then by the end of it, we stopped talking about
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  Speaker 7: Brooks Lee at third base because he was just making plays.
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  Speaker 7: And that's what you want. When a guy makes a move,
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  Speaker 7: we hit on Keyshaw before, too. it's when guys make
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  Speaker 7: those changes, especially in the big leagues during the year,
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  Speaker 7: you never know how it's going to work out.
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  Speaker 2: And, and he, it went as about as perfectly as
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  Speaker 2: it could.
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  Speaker 7: Um, he seemed to really settle in and, and like
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  Speaker 7: Dan was saying, the power, that's something that's big. If
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  Speaker 7: he can do, you know, he's got some contact skill
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  Speaker 7: to have the power to go along with that and,
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  Speaker 7: and to put some balls out of the park. Like
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  Speaker 7: that's a big piece to have a cornerstone piece to
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  Speaker 7: have in a lineup. And it's a guy, you know,
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  Speaker 7: you picked in the first round, it's what you want
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  Speaker 7: to happen. And, And that's the one that's going to
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  Speaker 7: be fun to see all these guys. You go through
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  Speaker 7: the bad years sometimes, but the results are you get
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  Speaker 7: players like a Brooks Lee or a Jenkins or whoever
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  Speaker 7: it may be that are now in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 7: And so it's time now for all of them to
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  Speaker 7: get collectively together and hit the ground running come spring training.
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  Speaker 2: But Brooks, most importantly, had a great year this year.
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  Speaker 1: You guys both picked Brooks Lee. I went with Taj Bradley.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Had a really rough go for the, for the twins
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  Speaker 1: portion of the season last year was better in Tampa,
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  Speaker 1: but still, even with including the Tampa numbers, a huge
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  Speaker 1: jump across the board and has put himself in the
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  Speaker 1: conversation to be the guy next year. I mean, depending
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  Speaker 1: on how his, his, his spring goes and Pablo and
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  Speaker 1: Joe's spring goes, he could be, uh, the front of
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  Speaker 1: that rotation pretty quick, or if not, he still pitching
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  Speaker 1: well enough to, to be in that conversation. So, we'll
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  Speaker 1: hear his name later though, too, as well, uh, as
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  Speaker 1: you'll see, uh, actually we'll hear that right now because
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  Speaker 1: the next award up on our list is pitcher of
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  Speaker 1: the year.
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  Speaker 8: And the winner is Taj Bradley.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, this was, I believe our only unanimous selection, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Kind of tough to go any other way, I think, guys. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: with Joe Ryan falling off in the second half and
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  Speaker 1: spending time on the IL, he was clearly the Twins'
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  Speaker 1: best starter throughout the year, and it's probably an award
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  Speaker 1: that is likely to go to a starter over a reliever,
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  Speaker 1: and there's nobody in the bullpen who put up enough
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  Speaker 1: of a dominant season to take it away from him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what else needs to be said, but
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  Speaker 1: it was an incredible year and a deserving honor for Taj.
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  Speaker 5: He was 200 strikeouts, man. 200 strikeouts, yes. Career high
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  Speaker 5: in innings. His war was off the charts. His war
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  Speaker 5: was close to three. 4-2? 4-2.
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  Speaker 2: They're all different.
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  Speaker 5: 4-2 with baseball reference.
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  Speaker 2: 4-2 with baseball reference. 2.8 on fan graphs.
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  Speaker 5: But he was just dominant.
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  Speaker 2: Gomez, I think, He had a shot.
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  Speaker 7: Had he finished strong and perfect like he was, he
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  Speaker 7: would have been a close call for me. That's a
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  Speaker 7: huge add. The back end in a weird bullpen all year,
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  Speaker 7: he was good. Taj was just 200 punch outs, 31,
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  Speaker 7: 32 starts.
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  Speaker 2: You take that any day of the week.
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  Speaker 1: He started 31 games, and the Twins were 18 and
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  Speaker 1: 13 in his starts, which doesn't sound... particularly sexy when
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  Speaker 1: you say 18 and 13, but it is a 94
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  Speaker 1: win pace. They were, uh, they were a great team
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  Speaker 1: when he started, uh, and it, and it showed throughout
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  Speaker 1: the season. And while we're mentioning strikeouts, we forgot to mention, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Connor Peele's 128 was, I think it was fifth most
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  Speaker 1: for a twins rookie. And the names on that list are,
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  Speaker 1: are pretty good. Uh, it was Bert, Jim Cott. I
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  Speaker 1: forget who all, uh, uh, who all else was on it.
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  Speaker 1: Not Tyler Duffy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got to make 30 starts to have
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  Speaker 1: a shot at that, I would say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's also true.
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  Speaker 1: All right, next on our list is our defensive player
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  Speaker 1: of the year.
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  Speaker 4: And the winner is.
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  Speaker 6: Whatever the hell that is.
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  Speaker 1: There he is again. It's Brooks Lee. Congratulations to Brooks Lee.
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  Speaker 1: This is your guys' doing on this one. We've already
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  Speaker 1: alluded to.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously, Dan, since the move to third base, he's
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  Speaker 1: been one of the best statistical defenders in the league.
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  Speaker 3: Overall, if we looked at his numbers, his metrics would
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  Speaker 3: say this is not the correct choice.
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  Speaker 5: It's very specific.
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  Speaker 3: This is Brooks Lee at third base because shortstop didn't
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  Speaker 3: go well, and he's talked about that. He knows this
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  Speaker 3: was the right move. He said his range plays at third.
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  Speaker 3: He feels like he's locked in. I'm going to write
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  Speaker 3: something about it here in the offseason. He loves how
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  Speaker 3: it feels, and he said kudos to the front office
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  Speaker 3: because they called this and it wasn't something he wanted
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 5: But his shortstop, if we look at the numbers, on.
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  Speaker 3: The year I think he's a minus one or minus
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  Speaker 3: two defender because his shortstop play was so bad. But
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  Speaker 3: his third base has been spectacular. Again, top ten in
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  Speaker 3: the league. He expects to make the plays. He's got
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  Speaker 3: the arm. He loves the angles. He loves throwing from
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  Speaker 3: different angles. um, it's, it's really allowed him to be
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  Speaker 3: creative defensively and, and, uh, really good.
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  Speaker 1: He, uh, yes, was not very good at shortstop, uh,
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  Speaker 1: which is why I did not pick him.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking at the.
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  Speaker 1: Overall holistic, um, picture. That's fair. I, who did I
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  Speaker 1: vote for? Um, so the other, the other name that
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  Speaker 1: Tyler threw out, because again, he cheated and like, like
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  Speaker 1: to throw out several, several votes.
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  Speaker 2: I picked and then I said, uh, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Um, was Ryan Jeffers. I actually went with Victor Caratini,
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  Speaker 1: but you could make a, you could make a case for,
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  Speaker 1: for both catchers together as well. Obviously they basically ended
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  Speaker 1: up splitting time because of how much Jeffers, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 1: missed with injury, but. the twins were, uh, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: Caratini rates extremely well in a lot of defensive metrics,
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  Speaker 1: which I, I still, for the life of me, do
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  Speaker 1: not fully understand all of them.
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to, uh, someone needs to write a book.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That would be helpful if, if only there was such
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  Speaker 1: a thing, but, um, he, he also, uh, had the, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think 74 successful challenges. It was, which, um, was
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  Speaker 1: like fifth most in baseball despite the fact that he's
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  Speaker 1: caught a lot less innings than the people the catchers
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  Speaker 1: ahead of him on the list they're all catchers of
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  Speaker 1: course um he and jeffers together have made the twins
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  Speaker 1: the most successful team in abs challenges at least in
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  Speaker 1: terms of calls overturned in their favor the percentage is
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  Speaker 1: not the highest uh but look for a team that
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  Speaker 1: and he also uh very high rating and pitch framing
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  Speaker 1: for a team that like needs stuff like that to
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  Speaker 1: to win games uh At a very important position, both
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  Speaker 1: those guys deserve a shout-out for sure. So they at
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  Speaker 1: least made the nominee list.
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  Speaker 7: We're talking about keeping Jeffers. That's part of the reason
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  Speaker 7: right there. They combined this year, did a lot behind
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  Speaker 7: the plate.
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  Speaker 1: offseason as of Monday. But we will be right back
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  Speaker 1: with the rest of our awards.
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• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Okay, I lied.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: There were two unanimous votes from our panel, and here
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: was the second one. This one, we've done most of
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: our player awards. This one is for the moment of
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: the year, our favorite good moment of the year for
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the Twins.
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: And the winner is.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: It is Cody Clemens' ultimate grand slam. It was kind
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: of a no-brainer. There were a few other walk-offs, but
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: you don't get walk-offs like this every single day. Twins
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: were down 3-0. I forget the date. Playing the Royals,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I believe.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: It was right before the deadline. It was like end
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: of July.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Right before the deadline.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: Maybe early August. Maybe August 1.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Back in those unicorn sparkle days when we thought there
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: was a playoff chance, for this team. So it was
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: a huge hit, a huge win. Twins were down 3-0
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: in the ninth inning, were just dead in the water.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden with two outs, load
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the bases and Clemens comes up and hits the home run.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Electric moment, Dan.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: It was, and it was a lefty-lefty. I think it
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: was Matt Strom was in there for, they didn't pinch.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Hit for him. And, you know, I remember the reaction from.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Guys on the bench and just, it was one of those,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: it was unbelievable to see because that was going to
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: be a disappointing loss in a home series against Kansas
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: City and going on the road. And it's funny because
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: that maybe the twins, they really started their slide in
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Seattle right after that. They had the couple of tough
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: walk-off losses. So the moment of the year might've masked
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: a little bit of like their struggles because they had
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: lost to Oakland at home in the series ahead of that.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: It wasn't, it wasn't their best time and he came through.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: It was awesome moment. It was just, Unbelievable and out
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: of nowhere. It really did feel like it was out
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: of nowhere.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it turns out the lucky walk-off grand slam was
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: actually foreshadowing problems, not good things ahead. Who would have thought?
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: But it was really, I mean, obviously that scenario was
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: astounding regardless, but the Twins, the first two batters of
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the inning were Larnik and Caratini got out. So two
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: outs and nobody on, down 3-0. Then Jeffers gets hit
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: by a pitch and then Royce Lewis goes 0-2, fights
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: back for a single, Josh Bell goes 0-2, fights back
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: for a walk, and then Clemens goes 0-2, and on
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the third pitch, 0-2 in a lefty-lefty matchup, did not miss,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: and Tyler, I forget if this was one of the
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: games that I turned off and gave up on, but.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: It was quite an inning.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was somewhere around that, yeah, but that way, it's,
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: like I said, all with two outs, lefty-lefty, all the things,
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: you know, everything's against you at that point, and to
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: do that, and it's, You know, it's one of those,
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: I'm sure, when he's done playing, that will stick for
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: him too, which is, you know, it's always so fun. Like,
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: there's big moments of the year, and obviously we all
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: went straight to that moment, you know, picking out for
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: these awards. but, you know, in the fans, it's, that's
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: one that will forever be in a highlight, you know,
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: it'll be on MLB network. I'm sure from time to time,
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: if it ever happens again, you know, it's just, it
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: was one of those things.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: It was as rare as a perfect game.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Almost.
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: It's just such a cool moment for him, for the team.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: They needed the boost of the time. I think that
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: was the biggest thing. They were kind of going through it,
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: and that was a huge moment, and it gave us
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: all a little bit of hope at the end of
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: the day. Dan didn't appreciate it as much as we did,
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: but we loved every minute of it. It was a
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: thrilling victory. I think it was on a getaway day, too.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: It was a day game. It was just the perfect
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: lineup of events to happen.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Congrats to Cody.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Congrats to Cody. The inaugural moment of the year. Ham
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and Iggy.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Well done.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Next up was the best in-season move. The adjustment or
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the change that we thought was most helpful to the team.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Could have been a trade. Could have been a call-up.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: A position change.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Really anything.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: This is the one that we were all split on.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: And We put it to a fan vote last night
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: on X, and the winner is.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: Whatever the hell that is.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: It's moving Brooksley to third base. It was definitely a
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: very solid move defensively. Was this a Dan Hayes nominee?
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: It was.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Take it away, Dan.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Look, it sets the infield for the future.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Brooksley at third base allowed Kalen Culpepper to come up
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: shortstop move Royce Lewis to the right side, like first base.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's looked good at first defensively. We've talked
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: about the fact that Royce Lewis needs to hit more
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: at first, but it really put the rest of the
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: team in place. And, and Luke Kieschel's in the outfield
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: as a result of this now, because Cody Clemens went
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: to second where Luke Kieschel was struggling defensively. And Luke
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Kieschel has had some struggles out there and right, but
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: that's going to be his position. And they're, they're kind
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: of set on that. And I think this just kind of,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: set the tone as much as I really liked getting
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Jeff Hoffman at the deadline.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: I thought that was good.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: It's good for next year because they get him again
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: next year. Dean Kramer has been really solid for them. Um, and,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: and that's going to give them stability in the rotation
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: for next year too. But, uh, Brooksley really doing that move, uh,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: making that move just sets a lot of things in
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: motion and, uh, was a big deal.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Uh, the other nominees, Tyler, uh, had mentioned putting Gomez
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: in the closer role.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Is that right? Yeah.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: Well, I guess that just the process, whatever you want
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: to call it, him, him becoming a twin and then
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: being the closer for, you know, majority of the season was,
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: I mean, without him, that's.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: You know, 20, what do you have?
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: 23.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I think he finished with saves.
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: You know, that's a lot of games of tossing up,
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: you know, Morris was so hot to start the year,
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: had his struggles at times.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: And then it became kind of, who is it going
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: to be?
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: And he solidified the back end at a time when
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: the rest of the bullpen was kind of scuffling. And, um,
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: I just think that was a big, it's a quiet addition. Um,
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: you know, maybe that as, you know, a non reliever
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: doesn't notice as much, but a guy like me who
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: was out there in the trenches, um, you know, having
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: that guy at the back end helps other guys settle in. And, um,
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: you know, it was just, it's 23 games that he
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: came in and, you know, whether it was a roller
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: coaster or not at times, he's, he's, he got the
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: game closed and finished off and, Um, you know, without
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: him there, who knows that could be a few, few
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: more losses. And we'd have been having this conversation about post-season,
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: you know, after season a lot, a long time ago.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And I went with, uh, calling up the, the AAA stars. Uh, we,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe they waited too long, whatever, but the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: fact that they all ended up getting up here and
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: all three of them really have, have now at this
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: point have something very positive to take into the off
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: season and, For next year, I feel like that eliminates
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: some of those freshman jitters that might happen when those
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: players are inevitably part of the rotation. Talking, of course,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: about Culpepper, Walker Jenkins, and Emmanuel Rodriguez primarily.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, the team was super aggressive in making those moves.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: I know Walker or Jenkins took a little while. A
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: lot of clamoring from fans. But, I mean, they brought
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: up pre-lift fast. They did that right away. They showed
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: it all year. They were willing to bring up the rookies.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Culpepper on August 7th was huge. The fact that these
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: guys all netted time during the season and have seen
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Walker Jenkins going through that slump and then coming out
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: the other side is going to be huge for him
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: next year.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: All right. Now the big one. Who is our team MVP?
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: MVP.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: The winner is, whatever the hell that is, Cody Clemons.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Congratulations to Cody Clemons. Takes his second ham and eggy,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: one behind Brooks Lee's three. But he gets the big one,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and this was all you guys. Tyler, why is he
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: your MVP?
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: He posted, I don't know what games played were, but
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: I know it got to where he wasn't even the
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: matchup guy with the lefties in the game.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: He played left.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: I think he played center at one point, played second, third, first.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: I can't remember if he got an inning on the
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: bump this year, but the guy literally did everything that
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: was asked. He's leading the team in homers. He's right
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: there in average. He's played good defense. He's a guy
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: in the clubhouse, like the intangibles. He and the Rocket
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: got together at the Field of Dreams game. They did
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: it all this year. Cody had a great year. It's
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: just one, for me, wire to wire. He was just
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: a guy that was always kind of in the mix
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: of doing something. He and Josh Bell comes to mind, too.
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: Those guys were just kind of there. Dependable for the
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: whole season. Without him in the lineup, without hitting the
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: ultimate grand slam, they don't win that game. There's a
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: lot of games where he was getting clutch hits and
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: coming up with guys on base and just making things happen.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: He's a well-deserved award.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: Home runs were just important.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Like he had 26 of them and I don't know
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: the stat anymore, but you know, it's a high percentage
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: that have tied the game or put the twins in
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: the lead. And, um, he was clutch like that. Uh,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: he leads the American league with seven triples, which is
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: crazy to me. Um, he, uh, just, it's a 2.4
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: F or a baseball reference war season. Um, But he's
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: just been consistent. I have a feeling he's going to
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: win the Writers MVP Award too. I mean, he just–
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: 142 games played with three to go. He's put together–
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: he's established himself as a major leaguer for real. And
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: that's two good years in a row with the Twins
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: who got him for cash considerations last year.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: They claimed him. Philadelphia was moving on.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: They didn't have enough at-bats, and the Twins were like,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: we have opportunity and Cody Clemens has seized it and
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: been very good. I, uh.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Because I went with Taj for most improved, I actually
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: gave this one to Brooks Lee. Uh, he's right there
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: at the top of just about every, every metric maybe
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: didn't have the memorable moments as much, but I think
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: also just the, the willingness and on the move to
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: third base and taking so well to that position, uh,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: as Dan pointed out earlier has unlocked some things for
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: this team, going forward and has been a great defensive
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: move as well. So most reliable player just in the lineup,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: best defender, and the best hitter argument is sort of.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Up in the air.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: So that's where I went with that one. All right.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: We have one final award to hand out. It's near
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and dear to our hearts. We asked for, well, first
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: we voted internally on what we're calling the Hammonager of
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the Year, which is your favorite Twin Cities territory, either
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: host or guest. So the eligible candidates were the three
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: of us, the unknown stranger that has been on the
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: show a couple of times. We still don't know who
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: he is. Or Pablo Lopez, who of course was a
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: guest early.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: In the season.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Unknown stranger was unanimously winning this award until I realized
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: really it should be an award for the people who
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: watch the show. So I put it out on X
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and Dan retweeted it and Pablo Lopez surged to the lead.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Go figure.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: So now that I've taken all the drama out of it,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: your winner of the Hamminger of the Year is Pablo Lopez. Congratulations.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: One appearance on the show, but what an appearance it was.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: We really do Appreciate him coming on. I'm telling you, Dan,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you should go tell these guys they won these awards.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: See if they want to record a little acceptance speech
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: for us.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I'll see what I can do. What are we giving them?
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Are we giving them a plate of ham and eggs?
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I just walk up with a hot plate of ham
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: and eggs in the clubhouse.
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: Go get a pound of boar's head and just stop
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: at Whole Foods on the way and just go to the,
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: you know, self-serve and here you go.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: It was, it was a disappointing result for Unknown Stranger.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: And thankfully he agreed to come on and talk about it. Finishing,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: actually he didn't even finish second place, Dan, because, you know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: shrewdly you, tweeted it to your followers. You surged into
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: some place in the voting. So well done there, but, uh,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: unknown stranger.
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: Welcome.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: It's gotta be kind of a tough break, huh?
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Thanks for having me on. I mean, I'm a
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: little pissed off to be honest. Like you're telling me
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: I was winning the vote and then some mysterious late
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: ballots unverified come in from nowhere. And suddenly Pablo Lopez
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: is the winner. I mean, This is ridiculous. He was
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: in one episode.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, you were only in two.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: Okay, maybe. But still, you know, you put a lot
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: of effort into something. You make an ass of yourself
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: by walking out, giving up on the Twins. Then you
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: prove vindicated. They don't make the playoffs. And you think
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: you're going to have something to show for it. And
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: this is ridiculous. I demand to see the voting machines.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Give me the voting machines.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, all right, all right.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Enough of that. Enough of that.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, get him out of here.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Disgruntled, but.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: You guys have been drinking already.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: Zach, how were you in two places at once? How
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: were you... That was impressive stuff.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Don't really know what you're talking about, actually.
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: Maybe we'll get him a new shower.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: We'll find a good handyman in town and get.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: Him hooked up.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Get a TV in there so he doesn't have to
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: turn off the game.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: One of those cool mirrors.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Twins have Texas this weekend. Last chance to get out
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: to a game if you want. I actually might make
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: it on Sunday because they're handing out mystery squishies.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: It's all about that.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I should try SeatGeek. I'm assuming they're still a sponsor. Dan,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: anything we need to know about the team?
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: We could just say real quick, bringing the mood down,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: the twins parted ways mutually with assistant GM Daniel Adler yesterday.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: That was something that I don't think it's really that
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: shocking because Daniel Adler, his new role was more like
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: a COO. where he was doing business and baseball ops
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: and had done less and less on the baseball ops side.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: He gave up international scouting to move over there. And
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: it was really tied to Derek Falvey.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: And I think when Derek Falvey left, that made him
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: realize his time was probably coming to an end. He's
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: still under contract with them. So he started looking. And
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: I think that, you know, both sides agreed it was
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: time to move on.
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: So.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Not much on the baseball side. We're going to see
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Kalen Culpepper Saturday and Sunday. Derek Shelton, he was supposed
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: to run the bases Thursday, I believe, and Friday, but
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: was progressing well. They seemed pretty confident he was going
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: to be back, so we'll see him, I think, activated
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Saturday unless something went wrong the last two days. And
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: so we'll get a chance potentially to see that trio, Culpepper, Jenkins, and, uh,
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Emmanuel Rodriguez.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: And, and obviously Luke Kieschel should be out there too.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: So for, you know, top 50 kind of players on
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: the field at the same time.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: First round picks we can get on the field at once.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of those.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Uh, Friday night tonight is a seven, 10 star Joe
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Ryan and Jacob de Grom. I see here Saturday, uh,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Bailey Ober in a 3-10 start against TBD Sunday. 2-10 start,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Dean Kramer and Mackenzie Gore. It was originally going to
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: be Ryan Kramer-Matthews. I guess they decided to give Ober
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: another start in there.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they wanted to give him a final start at
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: the weekend just because he's a vet. He means a
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: lot to this team. Now they need to win two,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: and they need to get Tommy Nance and Zebby Matthews' saves.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: so that they can tie the all-time record for most
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: pitchers with a save this season. We thought Tommy Nance
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: was getting the save in San Francisco on Wednesday. He
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: stood up for a second, but they went with Andrew Morris.
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  Speaker 3: I think I win two more now and do it
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: that way.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Nothing for the Twins to play for, but pride, of course.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: If they sweep, Dan, you will finish one game off
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: on your prediction at the beginning of the season. I
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: went back and watched. You said 79-83.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: I was 79, yeah. I was optimistic. I was optimistic.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Did you say 78?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I said 82 and 80. I was super optimistic. So,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: but regardless, uh, you know, I think 75, which they're
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: at now was about the highest prediction. Anybody, anybody had
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: most were lower 70. So, um, they will at least meet,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: if not exceed that a little bit, but they can
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: also play spoiler to Texas. They enter in a virtual
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: tie with Houston. They're both, they're both 79 and 80
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: top the AL West.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Um, The playoff push.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Houston has the tiebreaker, and they're playing at Sacramento. It
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: was close last night.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: But unhoused.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Is there a game 163 for a division title?
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: No, there's not. No, there's not. Okay.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: So even one Twins win might be very, very bad
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: for Texas.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: We'll see.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: But final series, we'll be back with you on Monday.
• 35:08
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• 35:11
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• 35:14
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• 35:19
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• 35:21
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• 35:36
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• 35:39
  Speaker 9: Bye-bye.