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I'm John Boto's at Twinsdaily.com. Across the table for me, Aaron Gleeman of Aaron Gleeman.com and Baseball Perspectus.com. We're talking about, even though they lost today, another winning week for your Minnesota twins. Yeah. Well, okay, here's a stat. Let's just start off with this. set the whole tone for the podcast.

Okay.

They were at one point.

Super positive tone for the podcast.

Yeah. Well, okay, here's a stat. Let's just start off with this. Set the whole tone for the podcast. Okay. They were at one point. Super positive tone for the podcast. Well, this is the best. I'm going to. I mean, you judge for yourself. Yeah, yeah, exactly. At one point, not so long ago, the twins were 20 and 48, worst record in baseball on pace for whatever that is 110 losses whatever that's

That's real bad right

Since then they've played now 30 games exactly since then it's been a little quite a bit over a month because there was the all-star break in there and all that stuff

But even with today's loss

They are 17 and 13 13. Okay

Yeah good which is that's your playoff team. If you go 17 and 13 and everything, you might be the number one seed, basically. Right, yeah, right. It's, and the, the, the, the, the, the, the funny thing is, the pitching has really gone up and down during that time. They had a good stretch with the starters. Then they had an ugly stretch with the starters.

I mean, start to start.

It goes up and down. Of late, particularly. Yeah. Because Gibson was really good. And then the last, you know, most of the last turn and a half. And the Lone's last time out, fantastic. This time out. Oh, the defense didn't help much today. But the offense has really, there's been a couple of times, you know, a couple of games in there where they were just shut down.

But the offense, for the most part, has really carried them and has really hit for a ton of power. Well, it especially seems that after the Red Sox series, but, you know, there was also this Detroit Tigers series where, you know, it was one to one, your one zero or one one, going into like the seventh inning, all three games. That's true. Although, in retrospect, the twins offense came through there, too. They just came through late because they, what, six, six runs in the second game or something like that, four runs at the first. And so we're going to talk a lot about that, just sort of who's playing well, what's going on.

Then obviously we're going to talk trade deadline stuff because that is August 1st, 4 p.m. Central or 4 p.m. Eastern, whichever. Monday afternoon. So it's 3 o'clock Central. 3 o'clock Monday. And they adjusted. It's usually July 31st, but they didn't want it. MLB didn't want it during this show, I think is what Rod my man for this commission.

He goes, I don't know if you guys are familiar, Gleman in the Geeks, Minnesota show. Anyway, we don't want to, you know, keep them from talking about Kurt Suzuki the day before. I think it was just the opposite. I think that I don't think they wanted us breaking it down right after, right after it had gone through.

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