Episode 329: Youth Is Served
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2017
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the maturation of the Twins' young lineup, their soft schedule coming up, Byron Buxton's transformation, the buzzkill around Miguel Sano's injury, Glen Perkins' return, Mitch Garver replacing an injured Robbie Grossman, looking stylish with Bombfell, Andy MacPhail and Michael Cuddyer going into the Twins' Hall of Fame, and potential August waiver trades.
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| 0:00.0 | Glee Man and the Geek |
| 0:10.7 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:15.0 | Gleeman and the geek |
| 0:17.2 | Talking baseball |
| 0:20.6 | every week. |
| 0:25.6 | Because the Gleman and the Geek. |
| 0:30.3 | And welcome to Gleeman in the Geek Show. |
| 0:34.5 | Sponsored by the Minnesota Corn Growers, |
| 0:36.8 | kernel nation.com. |
| 0:37.7 | I'm John Bono. It's Twinsdaily. With me, Aaron Gleeman of Baseball prospectus.com. Hello. How are you, Aaron? He's so handsome. I did ask for that. And passing the buttons, Tony Lange. Hey, guys. I didn't get the, he's so handsome one that one. No. Well, I had one for you, but it was just this one. |
| 0:56.5 | Well, pretty good. |
| 0:57.7 | Aaron, I had one for you, but it was just this one. |
| 0:56.5 | Pretty good. |
| 0:57.7 | Aaron, I want to take you back to April of 2016. |
| 1:01.9 | When we were taking a look at the 2016 season, |
| 1:05.1 | yeah, a team was coming off of 83 wins. |
| 1:09.2 | We were very optimistic about, or not real optimistic, but optimistic about the team was going to be doing. |
| 1:13.1 | I was probably skeptical. |
| 1:15.1 | Because that's every year. |
| 1:16.0 | I will say this, we both were betting the over on Vegas. |
| 1:19.0 | The over was 75, I think, that year. |
| 1:22.2 | And one of the things that we speculated was that they might have trouble, they might be playing around, you know, that pace ball, you know, a little bit under 500 ball through the first half of the year. |
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