#-1: Twins (Last Week: -1). Recently on KFAN a caller asked about who the Twinks' representative for the All-Star Game would be. At the time, about two or three weeks ago, the answer would be Matt Capps. Matt Capps? Matt Capps "Off Another Loss?" Somehow he has 11 saves out of 12 save opportunities and has a WHIP of 1.05, because I can only fixate on the 0-3 record and the impression I get that every time he comes into the game he puts runners on base. And he seems to blow one game a week in dramatic, pathetic fashion.
My pick? It could be Glen Perkins, who may very well be the best hurler on the club (Scott Diamond and P.J. Walters have been with the big team for too short a time for me to consider them for the ASG). But right now, it'd be Josh Willingham. He has been the only consistent threat to hit for power all season. Sad that a journeyman slugger is the only bright spot on the Twinks squad.
As for the week, well, it was pretty good. They finished 4-2, capped out with a sweep of the Oakland Athletics. (This team "revolutionized" baseball? This is why I can't ever watch Moneyball: I can't respect the presumed notion that this non-lucrative team beat the Goliaths through smarts, savviness and numbers because they fucking didn't.) They're going nowhere, but above-.500 screening weeks are few and far between, so we should recognize it when we can. After finishing their series in Cleveland Sunday (last week I said they'd be visiting Seattle, and I think I looked at the first week of May, not June), they play three at Kansas City, have a a day off on Thursday, then start interleague play at home against the Chicago Cubs over the weekend. This will be the start of one of their longest homestands of the season, nine games over ten days, all of them against organizations in the National League.
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