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Minnesota Twins series preview: What’s the point?

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By Josh Duggan
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In the past month, the face of the Twins has changed pretty considerably with Brian Dozier, Fogo de Chão hype man Eduardo Escobar, Zach Duke, Lance Lynn, and Ryan Pressly all donning uniforms of other teams. Having fallen out of contention, they moved seemingly every piece that wasn’t going to be around next year, as teams in their situation should.

Game times and pitching matchups are as follows:

  • Friday, August 3 — 7:10 PM CDT — Heath Fillmyer versus Jake Odorizzi
  • Saturday, August 4 — 6:10 PM CDT — Burch Smith versus José Berríos
  • Sunday, August 5 — 1:10 PM CDT — Danny Duffy (L) versus Ervin Santana

Royals at Twins pitching matchups

Pitcher G IP K K% BB BB% ERA FIP xFIP SIERA fWAR rWAR
Pitcher G IP K K% BB BB% ERA FIP xFIP SIERA fWAR rWAR
Game 1
Heath Fillmyer 7 27.1 15 13.3 12 10.6 3.29 4.93 4.89 5.02 0.0 0.3
Jake Odorizzi 22 112.0 118 24.0 47 9.6 4.58 4.46 4.72 4.35 1.4 0.7
Game 2
Burch Smith 28 54.0 55 23.3 27 11.4 6.00 5.15 4.58 4.25 -0.2 -0.4
José Berríos 22 139.0 142 25.2 33 5.9 3.56 3.65 3.75 3.61 2.8 3.0
Game 3
Danny Duffy (L) 23 132.0 120 20.5 62 10.6 4.50 4.80 4.99 4.79 0.7 1.3
Ervin Santana 2 10.1 6 12.8 3 6.4 6.10 7.24 6.65 6.04 -0.1 -0.1

Those were pitchers. None of them are particularly unknown entities to Royals fans. Moving on...

Here are more stats.

Minnesota Twins position players

Name Pos PA HR R RBI SB AVG OBP SLG wOBA wRC+ fWAR rWAR
Name Pos PA HR R RBI SB AVG OBP SLG wOBA wRC+ fWAR rWAR
Eddie Rosario (L) LF 460 19 69 64 7 .297 .340 .499 .356 123 3.5 4.0
Max Kepler (L) RF 412 13 52 41 3 .231 .318 .416 .318 97 1.5 2.0
Mitch Garver C/1B 230 5 23 22 0 .265 .345 .407 .328 104 0.9 0.8
Jorge Polanco (S) SS 108 0 14 9 3 .284 .370 .379 .333 108 0.6 0.7
Joe Mauer (L) 1B 338 3 37 33 0 .276 .356 .370 .321 99 0.6 0.9
Jake Cave (L) CF 113 3 21 15 1 .274 .304 .462 .318 98 0.4 0.8
Ehire Adrianza (S) IF 232 4 26 19 4 .245 .307 .380 .297 83 0.2 0.3
Logan Forsythe 2B 212 2 18 13 2 .206 .269 .289 .248 54 -0.6 -0.7
Miguel Sanó 3B 181 7 19 28 0 .207 .276 .402 .293 80 -0.2 -0.4
Logan Morrison (L) DH/1B 335 14 38 37 1 .190 .287 .378 .293 80 -0.4 0.1
Robbie Grossman (S) DH/RF 313 4 32 33 0 .249 .330 .359 .305 89 -0.6 0.0
Bobby Wilson C 127 1 8 13 0 .167 .224 .254 .213 26 -0.7 -0.3

Look at all those numbers! Aren’t numbers great? They really tie the room together.

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