Rising Star Brooks Lee Boosts Minnesota Twins' Lineup
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00:00With that said, let's talk about some of these young players that are up and now are contributing.
00:08Let's go to Minnesota.
00:09We just were bemoaning and lamenting the Byron Buxton's and the Royce Lewis's and I was saying
00:14this organization continues to provide.
00:17Were they providing us with now?
00:20They're providing us with Brooks Lee and Brooks Lee, another player who was on the down the
00:23farm segment last week.
00:25Now he's 42% rostered because he got the call.
00:28So we were ahead of the curve last week and we said, hey, speculatively, you might want
00:31to add this guy and stash him.
00:33If you did, you didn't pay very much for him and you're in a good spot now because Brooks
00:36Lee's come up here and what's he done over 15 at bats?
00:39Well, he's had a home run, driven in six, had seven hits in 467 with a 1204 OPS.
00:45This guy's the real deal.
00:46Now he has to hit to stay because eventually Royce Lewis will come back and this infield
00:50will get clogged up again a little bit.
00:52So can he move to second base and be that guy?
00:54I think the answer is yes.
00:55And look, Jose Miranda has been fun, but Jose Miranda, you're looking at these guys
01:00in this infield here, Correa has played very well this year.
01:03You have to give him credit.
01:04There's probably the best season we've seen in Correa's career in a couple of years, potentially.
01:11Maybe he keeps it up.
01:12Maybe he doesn't.
01:13But at the very least in this interim, Brooks Lee is a bat that I think you need to add
01:16because I do think there's opportunity here for Brooks Lee to stick with this team.
01:21The Minnesota twins know what's at stake here.
01:24This is the time where they've got to make their run and they're going to make their
01:26run.
01:27Basically, maybe without Royce Lewis for a month, we'll see at the end of the day how
01:30much time he's going to miss.
01:32However, I do think Lee regardless can be a contributor.
01:35He came back from his injury in AAA and he was just smoking balls all over the place
01:39and he's done the same things he's been up and look, yesterday's Homer was off Hunter
01:43Brown.
01:44Like it's a guy who's been really well so far in the last 10 starts.
01:47So you got to give Lee credit.
01:48And this is another guy too.
01:49He's available in 50% of leagues.
01:51You got to be adding this guy.