Twinkie Town Oct 25, 2020
Grading the 2020 Twins: José Berríos
Man or Makina? | Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/ Was La Makina operating smoothly, or were there some rusted cogs in the machine? In a truncated 2020 season, the Minnesota Twins and their fans entered with the hopes that Jose Berrios would continue to stride forward and become a true ace pitcher. After the season was curtailed in the Wild Card round, two conclusions were inescapable: The Twins had an ace in 2020. His name was Kenta Maeda. Maeda stole the spotlight, knocking Berríos to the #2 spot in the postseason rotation, a proper reshuffling due not only to Maeda’s...
Twinkie Town Oct 4, 2020
Now what?
Photo by Hannah Foslien/ How do you get better? We’ve all had a couple days to decompress from the bitter playoff loss(es) to the Astros that pushed the Twins’ streak of postseason futility to a record-smashing 18 games. So the natural question we all turn to is “now what?” For years the refrain has been “fix the pitching.” The Twins did that. At least for two playoff games. The starters, Kenta Maeda and Jose Berrios shoulder no part on the losses. Both pitched brilliantly, giving up a combined one run in 11 innings. That should have been more-than-enough for a team to have a...
Minneapolis Star-Tribune Sep 30, 2020
Eddie Rosario ejected, Jose Berrios exits early as frustration fills Twins' day
Another postseason sweep seemed "eerily similar to last year."
Twinkie Town Sep 30, 2020
AL Wild Card Series Game 2: Astros at Twins
Jose Berrios is making his first career postseason start that isn’t at Yankee Stadium. | Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports Will the streak finally end at 17? First Pitch: 12:08 pm CentralTelevision: ESPN2Radio (English): WCCO 830 AM, Treasure Island Baseball Network, KMBN 102.9 FM “The Wolf”, ESPN RadiooRadio (Spanish): twinsbeisbol.comKnow Thine Enemy: The Crawfish Boxes Deep breaths. It can still happen. I’m talking about winning a single playoff game, of course. Not the series. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. First things first. One game at a time. You know the drill. Today,...
