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00:05 Minnesota Twins, Matt, are having some start without a doubt to their season.
00:10 It was not a great April, but they have completely turned it around in May.
00:15 Twins beat the Blue Jays yesterday 5-1.
00:17 This is arguably their best run in years, and they're getting a--
00:21 speaking of starting pitching, they're getting a ton of starter pitching,
00:23 Bailey Ober and Pablo Lopez, and it's just been Joe Ryan.
00:29 I think Paddock has also been good for them.
00:31 I mean, injuries are just creeping up around the league,
00:33 but fortunately for the Twins, thus far, so far, so good.
00:37 Right now, as it would appear, they're going to have to catch Cleveland
00:41 and hold off Kansas City and Detroit to win this division.
00:45 They told us the Central was not going to be good in the American League,
00:48 but I care to differ here.
00:51 Every team--we've got three teams over .500,
00:53 and Detroit is creeping around there too.
00:56 Yeah, you know, you look at the Twins, top ten offense, top ten pitching staff,
01:00 that's going to get it done.
01:01 The one thing I think that's interesting through this stretch,
01:04 and it's always tough to assess schedule in baseball, especially this early,
01:09 what's a tough schedule.
01:10 I don't know if we totally know, but if you look at who they've been playing
01:13 since they really started this hot streak, there haven't been a lot of really
01:17 top teams.
01:18 You know, they played the Mariners in there who are in first place.
01:20 They played the Red Sox, who are pretty good.
01:22 But they've been beating up maybe on some of the lower teams a little bit,
01:25 and, you know, they have dealt with some injuries.
01:27 No Royce Lewis.
01:28 Correa was hurt for a while.
01:30 Buxton's hurt now.
01:31 But we're going to start to see how for real they are, these next two series,
01:35 against the Guardians, against the Yankees.
01:38 I think we're going to find out a lot more.
01:40 And, you know, they're just due to kind of start coming back to earth a little
01:45 bit, maybe losing some close one-run games.
01:47 But if they can get through these next two series, you know, win them both,
01:51 maybe go four-and-two, I think you're going to have to really start
01:54 looking at the Twins a lot more seriously, especially if they really do well
01:58 against the Guardians because, like you said, that's the team they're chasing.
02:01 That's the team that's still in first right now, even after this hot streak
02:05 from the Twins.
02:06 So I think it's going to be really interesting to see how they handle this
02:09 and if they can keep playing well offensively and with the rotation.
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