Since the recent fire sale from the Minnesota Twins, I can understand if you aren’t keen on ‘news’ from the organization. I’ve had daily conversations with people in our building over the headshaking moves made at Target Field for a team just 5.5 games out of the AL Wild Card at the trade deadline. While it’s been frustrating to be a fan of the team, there are always interesting tidbits we learn during the mammoth 162-game season. One was recently revealed during a team broadcast.
Players Use Their Hands To Signal All Game Long
If you are a fan of baseball, you know that giving signs or signals to teammates has always been a part of the game. The Houston Astros were caught stealing pitch signs from the catcher, and alerting their teammates at bat what pitch was coming by banging on a trash can.
A recent hand sign was caught on camera by a Minnesota Twin after he mashed a home run, and was celebrated by his teammates in the dugout. But what to make of the strange sign offered to the dugout camera?
It’s A Sign To This Player’s Family While Away From Home
The Twins’ Ryan Jeffers gets alot of screen time when he plays, as he is a catcher, so while the Twins are pitching you generally see him a lot, but just because he is getting that much screen time doesn’t mean he can send private signals to his family back at home, especially when he is on the road.
His recent kiss to the back of his hand, after hitting a home run in Detroit, was his way of telling his family “I Love You”, which is a sweet gesture to think that even while playing a game, for millions of dollars a year, his family is still on his mind.
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