TV: Twins.TV \/ ~ \/ Radio: TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM<\/p>\n
This week, I found a 2014 Glen Perkins All-Star Game bobblehead, as well as a Phil Hughes Twins bobblehead that, judging by the uniforms and general design, was probably from the same year (or perhaps a year later, once he\u2019d had his standout debut season with the team.)<\/p>\n
They were at a shelf on the Goodwill in St. Paul; my sister had popped over with a friend that week and spotted them near the entrance. One trip and just ten bucks later, I had both in hand.<\/p>\n
This was the highlight of the week for Minnesota Twins<\/a>-related content.<\/p>\n The Twins have been on the most demoralizing skid of the year, worse (IMO) than the 7-15 start which plagued the early vibes. Minnesota is 3-11 since June 15th, and have only won two series since their 13-game winning streak from what now feels like a million years ago. They snapped a six-game skid on Thursday, only to lose 16-7 last night in a game that wasn\u2019t remotely as close as even that abysmal score implies.<\/a><\/p>\n Injuries have obliterated the front lines, the depth isn\u2019t performing, a handful of \u201ccore\u201d pieces have already been demoted, and the Twins officially hold a losing record, sitting at 37-38, ten games back of first, fourth place in the division, and now seventh in the AL Wild Card.<\/p>\n (Other than that, Cole Escola, how was the play?)<\/p>\n The Twins will face off against an old friend \u2014 well, really, an old rival \u2014 in Jose Quintana. Quintana, of course, was well-familiar with Minnesota after debuting in Chicago and spending his first five-and-a-half seasons with the White Sox<\/a>, including his only All-Star appearance in 2016. Since then, he\u2019s spent time on the North Side, time in California, time on the Mets<\/a>, and has now settled in Milwaukee. Through it all, he\u2019s been wildly dependable; the 36-year-old lefty has had only one major-league season below replacement level, and has racked up 8.3 bWAR in his age 33-36 seasons.<\/p>\n Simeon Woods Richardson gets the ball for the Twins. At this point, the bar for success is pretty low for ol\u2019 Sim. On June 5th, the Twins gave up 14; 16 on the 10th, 16 on the 12th, 10 on the 13th, and 17 last night. Rocco Baldelli will probably take anything in the single digits.<\/p>\n GO TWINS GO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV: Twins.TV \/ ~ \/ Radio: TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM This week, I found a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[422,5,136,181,14,822,60,3190,4,3251,3250,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-120858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-at","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brewers","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-game","13":"tag-minnesota","14":"tag-minnesota-twins","15":"tag-minnesotatwins","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-town","18":"tag-twinkie","19":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114722537775817909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}