Yeah!

Base hit to left field.

It’s the top of the 8th inning and the Twins are getting shut down 2-0 by the A’s. This sucks. C’mon Delmon Young, see the ball, hit the ball. See the ball, drive in some runs. See the ball, hit a home run.

I think this current Twins team will be a fine offensive team, better than most Twins fans are used to. It’ll just take some time. These guys have to gel a bit.

There are a lot of new faces, and as a collective whole, the Twins need to hit their stride.

In another month, it’ll be interesting to look at the Twins stats.

The Oakland A’s Defense

On another note, the A’s defense has been pretty funny the last couple days. Dropping balls, balls rolling between legs, it almost seems derogatory. Haha. Yeah. The the Twins know how to capitalize on this stuff.

Twins Win Tonight?

They’ll probably end up winning 3-2 with a save by Joe Nathan tonight.

About 30 more minutes and I’ll find out if that prediction was correct.

Yeah, there is actually somebody else that can hit home runs that is not named Morneau, Kubel or Harris. Granted, Harris only has one home run at this point. Kubel has 3 home runs. Morneau has 5 home runs. And now…. Monroe has 1 home run as well.

Yeah!

I wish some of the other other guys would hit home runs. It’s just so fun to see. Especially when this Twins team is touted as more of a hitting team than a pitching team. It’s kinda the opposite at this point.

Craig Monroe is having a good night overall. If Dick and Bert have it correct, he just needs to hit a triple to hit for the cycle tonight. And it’s all off of the pitcher Joe Blanton. Not too bad of a night for Craig Monroe with all things considered.

So, Kubel is running around the bases about as fast as he can go. Kubel gets waved around third base and chugs home. Suzuki, the A’s catcher, catches the ball and Kubel slides right into him.

Kubel reaches around Suzuki and touches home base. He’s called safe! Suzuki looks confused and frustrated. The A’s manager is pissed. Kubel made a heads up play and is safe. 2-0 Twins.

Yeah. The Twins are fun to watch sometimes.

Dropping two in a row to the Tigers? It’s becoming obvious that the Tigers won’t continue to struggle much longer. Unless their pitching sucks all year.

But, I’d hate to think that it was two games dropped by the Twins in late innings that gave the Tigers their jump start on the year. If the Tigers go on a roll now, it’s too bad that the Twins helped to get that ball rolling.

At least the Twins offense made a nice showing. It’s good to see Morneau sitting with 4 home runs on the season already.

Being a Twins fan can be tough.

I watched Johan Santana and Torii Hunter (and to a lesser degree, Carlos Silva) walk from the Twins this year. You may or may not be big fan of any of those players, but that was a meaty part of the Twins right there.

Even Carlos Silva, the third, lesser regarded player mentioned, was a very important part of the Twins pitching staff last year. Check out these stats. This shows that Silva covered a huge portion of the total pitching time of the Twins. And then, of course, it also completely stands out how important Santana was to the Twins pitching staff. That guy was never on downtime. And 2007 was one of Johan Santana’s down years.

Here’s the Twins 2007 Pitching Stats, from Baseball-Reference.com:

And now I have managed to wander into paragraph #4 before actually talking about the player in the headline.

Carlos Gomez is the guy that is propped up as the return savior of the disappearance of all these guys.

He’s the only guy in the trade that is on the Twins MLB club roster right now.

He’s playing hard, showing great promise, and making a good presence. This alone is helping the Twins convince the rest of the world that trading Santana might not have been that bad of an idea.

Yeah.

If Gomez is running the bases, he’s usually got dirt on his Jersey. That has to be a good sign. He’s also filling Torii Hunter’s shoes out in center field. It’s not an easy slot to fill.

And, not to mention, Gomez is wearing Brad Radke’s number.

When Brad Radke retired in December 2006, the Twins didn’t reassign his jersey No. 22. But new Twins outfielder Carlos Gomez will wear it this season.

If Gomez pans out and keeps up his exciting reputation, he’ll solidify the Twins hustle approach and be the payoff for losing all of Hunter, Santana and Silva.

TEAM ------------

W --

L --

% ------

GB ---

Chicago

6

4

.600

-

Kansas City

6

5

.545

0.5

Minnesota

6

5

.545

0.5

Cleveland

4

7

.364

2.5

Detroit

2

9

.182

4.5

It’s funny to see Detroit so low in the standings, I thought they’d be better at this point in the year. They almost got no-hit today.