Every RBI for the Twins today came from the three guys who are prime candidates to get optioned to the minors when Royce Lewis comes back on Tuesday to help the Twins get swept by the Yankees.

Because hey, got to stay on the team to get a free trip to New York City.

_veeyah_ said:

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0-26 when trailing after 8
5-14 in 1 run games

Maaaaan this team is not playing good baseball. But according to our manager they're playing so much better.

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I have to keep telling myself your record in one run games has an element of luck. Maybe that bodes well for a 2025 turn around but we're running out of runway for water to find its level.

Seattle has a cake matchup again with the Angels today and have been rumored to be in on the Jays players if they selloff.

AggiEE said:

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"We're going to play the best players in our lineups"

- Joe Espada, while starting Jose Abreu and Chas McCormick

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"Joe Espada is so much better than Dusty. Thank God."

- 98% of this thread, December-April

Pressly is the Abreu of the pitching staff.

But Pressly accounts for more losses

W said:

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hate to say it...

but Pena is coming back to Earth

OPS down to .738

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If a team is enamored with him I'd trade him. Target Adames this offseason. Better offensively and defensively.

I prefer more frequent rest and I thought that was a team thing based on some data analysis (not Dusty specifically). I can only speculate it has gone away because they dug such a deep hole.

Blake Snell exits his start with an injury in the fifth inning pic.twitter.com/wOnCvTpfWS

— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) June 2, 2024

The more time that goes by, the happier I am crane didn't blow big money on him

If we are looking to straddle competitiveness while retooling a bit then we might want to look at trades where we can get at least one quality big leaguer back. So if you do get to the point where trading Tucker makes sense, you can get a couple good prospects plus one of these guys:

Twins - We saw what Larnach can do. His batted ball metrics are excellent and he has several more years of control. Not much of a fielder and he hasn't been good against lefties but the Twins could go all in for Tucker with us getting Larnach and a few of their good prospects (Rodriguez, Brooks Lee, Zebby Matthews).

Orioles - Ryan O'Hearn has turned into a pretty good player and actually plays a good 1B even though they use him at DH. He has a team option for only $7.5M but maybe you can negotiate a two year deal instead. Santander is a butcher so they can move him to DH. Throw in Mayo to be your future at 3B and you've got something cooking.

Phillies - This one may be polarizing but Kyle Schwarber makes sense. Yordan is below average in the OF but by no means bad. Schwarber is the most proven bat on this list. It makes sense for the Phillies as they need to get Castellanos out of the field. They have a lot of farm pieces that could fit (Aiden Miller, Caba, Crawford, Painter), though most are several years away. Really just comes down to whether you think Yordan can give you 130+ games a year in the field.

tjack16 said:

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Wasn't able to watch today. Saw Pressly blew it… again

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Did you see that he struck the guy out twice that ended up walking and scoring the winning run?

agdaddy04 said:

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tjack16 said:

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Wasn't able to watch today. Saw Pressly blew it… again

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Did you see that he struck the guy out twice that ended up walking and scoring the winning run?

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No as I said, wasn't able to watch today. Just saw on the box score that he got the loss

All I do is Nguyen said:

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Aggies up big midway through. 6-1

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I was there Friday and last night. On baby duty tonight but it's been a fun watch so far