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[timwakefield 68]

Andres Blanco: Through 17 games for Triple-A Omaha, is hitting .362 with an OBP of .383 and an OPS of .883. Has 1 home run and 13 RBI. Known for his Gold Glove caliber fielding at shortstop, his hitting has been a pleasent surprise, and if he keeps it up, could seriously challenge Angel Berroa for the starting shortstop position in KC next year.

In my MVP 2005 xbox game Andres Blanco is the starting shortstop for the Red Sox, and is pretty sick. He hits like .325 with maybe 20 homers and 20 steals a season. It's like 2011 or something at this point.

[wsox8 10]

wow 2 in a row... Cleveland sucks haha

[KowboyKoop 0]

wow 2 in a row... Kansas City is better than I thought

FYP. We're a better team than our record says, I truly believe that, especially if we can not walk so many batters, which we didn't the last two games.

In my MVP 2005 xbox game Andres Blanco is the starting shortstop for the Red Sox, and is pretty sick. He hits like .325 with maybe 20 homers and 20 steals a season. It's like 2011 or something at this point.

If Blanco could even hit .300 with 15 HR ane 15 steals...that would be good enough for me....

[wsox8 10]

FYP. We're a better team than our record says, I truly believe that, especially if we can not walk so many batters, which we didn't the last two games.If Blanco could even hit .300 with 15 HR ane 15 steals...that would be good enough for me....

haha of course you are a little better than 4 and whatever.. hard not to be.

[mk 11]

FYP. We're a better team than our record says, I truly believe that, especially if we can not walk so many batters, which we didn't the last two games.

What's with Sweeney batting like .170?

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What's with Sweeney batting like .170?

Just struggling..I don't really know. He's had a ton of line drives hit right at infielders and deep fly balls caught on the warning track..so maybe some bad luck too....but he's just in a slump. He'll snap out eventually...I'm not really worried about it.

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04/25/06--Minnesota Twins (7-11) vs. Kansas City Royals (4-13); 7:10 CTStarting Pitchers: Kyle Lohse (1-1, 11.57) vs. Scott Elarton (0-4, 4.07)Starting Lineups:Twins LF Shannon Stewart (14 G, .333 BA, .377 OBP, 2 HR, 10 RBI, .833 OPS)2B Luis Castillo (13 G, .404 BA, .481 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .950 OPS)C Joe Mauer (16 G, .316 BA, .403 OBP, 1 HR, 6 RBI, .824 OPS)DH Rondell White (17 G, .149 BA, .157 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .321 OPS)CF Torii Hunter (18 G, .229 BA, .280 OBP, 5 HR, 13 RBI, .751 OPS)1B Justin Morneau (17 G, .215 BA, .271 OBP, 4 HR, 14 RBI, .687 OPS)3B Tony Batista (17 G, .279 BA, .353 OBP, 2 HR, 8 RBI, .812 OPS)RF Lew Ford (12 G, .250 BA, .341 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .703 OPS)SS Juan Castro (16 G, .280 BA, .308 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .608 OPS)Royals CF Shane Costa (15 G, .286 BA, .294 OBP, 3 HR, 7 RBI, .804 OPS)2B Mark Grudzielanek (16 G, .297 BA, .324 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, .730 OPS)DH Mike Sweeney (15 G, .173 BA, .279 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, .567 OPS)RF Reggie Sanders (14 G, .278 BA, .298 OBP, 3 HR, 11 RBI, .798 OPS)1B Doug Mientkiewicz (16 G, .264 BA, .310 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .688 OPS)LF Emil Brown (17 G, .193 BA, .279 OBP, 1 HR, 9 RBI, .595 OPS)3B Mark Teahen (14 G, .213 BA, .255 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .638 OPS)SS Angel Berroa (17 G, .317 BA, .328 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .711 OPS)C John Buck (15 G, .250 BA, .317 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .706 OPS)

[ol'number7 0]

Get ready to get your bats healthy tonight with Lohse in the lineup, he is an abomination of a starting pitcher I wish we would dump him and put ANYBODY in as a replacementedit -- if we can get past this rain delay

[KowboyKoop 0]

Get ready to get your bats healthy tonight with Lohse in the lineup, he is an abomination of a starting pitcher I wish we would dump him and put ANYBODY in as a replacementedit -- if we can get past this rain delay

Pretty shaky first inning from Lohse..but he escaped. If Elarton struggles with control again...it could turn out to be a slugfest.

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Get ready to get your bats healthy tonight with Lohse in the lineup, he is an abomination of a starting pitcher I wish we would dump him and put ANYBODY in as a replacementedit -- if we can get past this rain delay

I thought you said Lohse wasn't good!?! He's looking fairly sharp at times today...we keep mounting threats and he keeps getting out of them....

[ol'number7 0]

I am shocked he's into the 5th with 1 run, career highlight for Lohse -- not over yet though -- he'll kill it soon enough

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I am shocked he's into the 5th with 1 run, career highlight for Lohse -- not over yet though -- he'll kill it soon enough

I hope so..he's given up 11 baserunners total through 5 innings, but he keeps getting the big out..lol.

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04/25/06--Minnesota 2, Kansas City 1Winning Pitcher--Liriano (1-0, 0.71)Losing Pitcher--Hudson (0-2, 7.00)Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...minmlb_kcamlb_1Game Recap: Pretty frustrating game today. Got a great outing from Elarton, throwing seven shutout innings, but Hudson from the bullpen let in two to blow it. Other than him, great pitching the entire game. Offensively, we mounted offensive threats in seven of nine innings, so that's pretty encouraging, but we couldn't pick up the big hit whatsoever, led by Sanders, who was 0 for 5 with 3 strikeouts and 8 runners left on base. Much rather lose a well-played 2-1 ballgame though than a sloppy game with bad pitching. Been playing much better the past four games, and I still say we are a much better team than last year and getting better, but that 4-14 record is saying otherwise for now. We're getting better though, just need to keep getting good pitching, as we've only given up 22 runs over the past 6 games....so that 3.60 ERA over that span is much better than it has been.

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04/26/06--Minnesota Twins (8-11) vs. Kansas City Royals (4-14); 7:10 CTStarting Pitchers: Scott Baker (1-1, 3.31) vs. Runelvys Hernandez (0-0, 0.00)Starting Lineups:TwinsLF Shannon Stewart (15 G, .333 BA, .385 OBP, 2 HR, 10 RBI, .835 OPS)2B Luis Castillo (14 G, .373 BA, .448 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .880 OPS)C Joe Mauer (17 G, .322 BA, .408 OBP, 1 HR, 7 RBI, .832 OPS)DH Rondell White (18 G, .155 BA, .162 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .331 OPS)CF Torii Hunter (19 G, .216 BA, .266 OBP, 5 HR, 13 RBI, .712 OPS)1B Justin Morneau (18 G, .203 BA, .257 OBP, 4 HR, 14 RBI, .648 OPS)3B Tony Batista (18 G, .266 BA, .347 OBP, 2 HR, 8 RBI, .785 OPS)RF Lew Ford (13 G, .250 BA, .333 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .683 OPS)SS Juan Castro (17 G, .288 BA, .315 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .642 OPS)RoyalsCF Shane Costa (16 G, .302 BA, .321 OBP, 3 HR, 7 RBI, .850 OPS)2B Mark Grudzielanek (17 G, .294 BA, .329 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .726 OPS)RF Reggie Sanders (15 G, .254 BA, .274 OBP, 3 HR, 11 RBI, .732 OPS)DH Matt Stairs (6 G, .000 BA, .364 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .364 OPS)LF Emil Brown (18 G, .210 BA, .288 OBP, 1 HR, 9 RBI, .610 OPS)1B Doug Mientkiewicz (17 G, .246 BA, .302 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .652 OPS)3B Mark Teahen (15 G, .220 BA, .273 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .653 OPS)SS Angel Berroa (18 G, .313 BA, .323 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .698 OPS)C Paul Bako (7 G, .143 BA, .200 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .343 OPS)

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The return of Runelvyz "Fat" Hernandez is going pretty well so far...four scoreless innings, one hit and no walks. Retired 12 in a row after a leadoff single. Very unexpected strong stuff thus far....we've actually been getting some good starting pitching the past few games, nice to see.

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Going into the Bottom of the 7th, 3-1 Royals. Elvis is looking INCREDIBLE tonight...only one run given up on 3(?) hits and zero walks......just an awesome and unexpected start from him....he's starting to look like the early 2003 Runelvyz.....that'd be nice to have for an entire year. Let's see if we can hold onto this lead....encouraging stuff from our pitchers the last few days though...that's better than losing with horrible pitching.

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04/26/06--Twins 1, Royals 3Winning Pitcher: Hernandez (1-0, 1.29)Losing Pitcher: Baker (1-2, 3.47)Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...minmlb_kcamlb_1Game Recap: Extremely great game tonight. Winning routs are great, but these are the games we've fallen short in over the past few years, and it is awful nice to get a close win in a well-pitched, well played game. Game was very similar to last night's game. In Hernandez's first start of the year, he was flat out awesome. Not that many strikeouts (1), but he just pounded the zone with fastballs and used a ton of well-times off-speed pitches to keep the hitters off balance for seven innings, giving up one run on two hits and most importantly, zero walks. Offense wasn't "great," but we scratched out three runs with a few big hits, which we couldn't do yesterday, so they got the job done. Great pitching, including a save from Burgos, timely hitting, and great defense (including a spectacular diving catch from Mientkiewicz) is a great way to win a ballgame. As I've said before, we are a much better team than last year, even though our record doesn't currently reflect that. 3-2 over our last five games, so hopefully we can keep playing well and just play some .500 ball for a little while.

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04/27/06--Minnesota Twins (8-12) vs. Kansas City Royals (5-14); 1:10 CTStarting Pitchers: Santana (0-3, 4.81) vs. Redmen (0-0, 4.91)Starting Lineups:TwinsDH Shannon Stewart (16 G, .328 BA, .377 OBP, 2 HR, 10 RBI, .814 OPS)2B Luis Castillo (15 G, .345 BA, .419 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .819 OPS)C Mike Redmond (4 G, .438 BA, .438 OBP, 0 HR, 3 RBI, 1.063 OPS)LF Rondell White (19 G, .147 BA, .154 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .314 OPS)CF Torii Hunter (20 G, .208 BA, .256 OBP, 5 HR, 13 RBI, .685 OPS)RF Lew Ford (14 G, .256 BA, .333 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .682 OPS)1B Michael Cuddyer (12 G, .185 BA, .267 OBP, 2 HR, 3 RBI, .711 OPS)SS Nick Punto (13 G, .273 BA, .333 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .742 OPS)3B Luis Rodriguez (7 G, .375 BA, .444 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1.132 OPS)Royals1B Tony Graffanino (8 G, .200 BA, .200 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .560 OPS)2B Mark Grudzielanek (18 G, .319 BA, .351 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .795 OPS)DH Mike Sweeney (16 G, .170 BA, .318 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, .601 OPS)RF Reggie Sanders (16 G, .238 BA, .258 OBP, 3 HR, 12 RBI, .686 OPS)LF Emil Brown (19 G, .215 BA, .289 OBP, 1 HR, 10 RBI, .613 OPS)SS Angel Berroa (19 G, .299 BA, .309 OBP, 0 HR, 7 RBI, .667 OPS)3B Mark Teahen (16 G, .226 BA, .276 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .653 OPS)C John Buck (16 G, .231 BA, .295 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .654 OPS)CF Esteban German (8 G, .429 BA, .529 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, 1.029 OPS)

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04/27/06--Twins 7, Royals 3Winning Pitcher: Santana (1-3, 4.45)Losing Pitcher: Redmen (0-1, 7.82)Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...minmlb_kcamlb_1Game Recap: Fairly ugly game today, but I guess we were due for one after playing much better for the past week or so. Horrible start for Redmen, but as a whole, our pitching was okay outside of that one horrible inning. The bullpen at least kept it respectable and did okay after Redmen bombed out of the game in the 2nd. Offense was decent, which isn't too bad against Santana. Defense was pretty horrible today, which combined with a lot of walks in the early part of the game and a lot of ground balls that found holes for the Twins resulted in too big of an early hole. Still a better game than the losses during our 11-game losing streak though, so nothing to get too down about. Hopefully Redmen can bounce back in his next outing and hopefully Reggie Sanders can break out of his God-awful hitting slump....on the bright side, Esteban German was good offensively and Sweeney had a couple hits and Shane Costa continues to look great.

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God I hate ESPN.Last night, Runelvyz Hernandez two-hits the Twins over seven innings, giving up only a solo HR. 7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER. Hardly any mention whatsoever anywhere. Today, Santana gives up THREE runs over 8 innings against us and all over ESPN it's "oh, Santana dominated the Royals today," and "Santana shuts down the Royals" and "the Royals had no chance against Santana today," and blah blah blah.What bullsh*t. Since when is giving up THREE runs "completely dominating" some team. Since when is that an "outstanding" performance. Yeah, he pitched well today, but he wasn't "lights out' like they are saying....but I guess they have to manufacture all the Royals putdowns that they can. Funny they don't even care to mention that in the previous 7 games before today's, our team ERA was 2.66 (approximately) or anything like that. Can't bother to mention that one of our better pitchers returned last night and "dominanted" MUCH more so than Santana did. Wouldn't want to give up any props whatsoever when things are clearly getting better. I'm done.

[wsox8 10]

God I hate ESPN.Last night, Runelvyz Hernandez two-hits the Twins over seven innings, giving up only a solo HR. 7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER. Hardly any mention whatsoever anywhere. Today, Santana gives up THREE runs over 8 innings against us and all over ESPN it's "oh, Santana dominated the Royals today," and "Santana shuts down the Royals" and "the Royals had no chance against Santana today," and blah blah blah.What bullsh*t. Since when is giving up THREE runs "completely dominating" some team. Since when is that an "outstanding" performance. Yeah, he pitched well today, but he wasn't "lights out' like they are saying....but I guess they have to manufacture all the Royals putdowns that they can. Funny they don't even care to mention that in the previous 7 games before today's, our team ERA was 2.66 (approximately) or anything like that. Can't bother to mention that one of our better pitchers returned last night and "dominanted" MUCH more so than Santana did. Wouldn't want to give up any props whatsoever when things are clearly getting better. I'm done.

I can say I know how you feel, like last year. I am surprised the Sox haven't been on espn more after their title. Boston is still on espn almost every day... I agree, Hernandez pitched a good game but today Santana got the recognition... There's not much you can do. Sorry

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I can say I know how you feel, like last year. I am surprised the Sox haven't been on espn more after their title. Boston is still on espn almost every day... I agree, Hernandez pitched a good game but today Santana got the recognition... There's not much you can do. Sorry

Yeah, ESPN is pretty much all about Boston and New York...pretty disgusting.And it's not like I expect them to go nuts about Hernandez's performance, I mean, it was good and worth mention, but nothing too extraordinary, but just after watching Baseball Tonight, it's like Santana's performance today was the most dominant three run given up performance in the history of mankind...I mean...if he was SOOOOO dominant against our SOOOOO bad offense..then why did Angel Berroa take him deep?? And how did he end up just ONE run away from not even registering a quality start!??!?! Just retarded. I can handle them making their jokes about us, but when they gotta go to these lengths to try and make us look bad...it's just stupid.

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http://www.progressiveboink.com/dugout/arc...ut4-25-06x1.htmFunny Indians-Royals bit...check it out. (Read entire thing..not too long)

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04/28/06-- Oakland Athletics ( - ) vs. Kansas City Royals (5-15); 7:10 CTStarting Pitchers: Danny Haren (0-2, 5.60) vs. Joe Mays (0-2, 10.59)Starting Lineups:Athletics CF Mark Kotsay (20 G, .266 BA, .348 OBP, 1 HR, 6 RBI, .741 OPS)LF Nick Swisher (21 G, .333 BA, .422 OBP, 9 HR, 20 RBI, 1.186 OPS)3B Eric Chavez (21 G, .293 BA, .386 OBP, 8 HR, 17 RBI, 1.066 OPS)DH Frank Thomas (20 G, .194 BA, .266 OBP, 5 HR, 11 RBI, .696 OPS)RF Jay Payton (14 G, .179 BA, .179 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .393 OPS)SS Bobby Crosby (16 G, .224 BA, .250 OBP, 2 HR, 6 RBI, .595 OPS)1B Dan Johnson (17 G, .145 BA, .230 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .466 OPS)C Jason Kendall (18 G, .214 BA, .328 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .578 OPS)2B Mark Ellis (19 G, .181 BA, .234 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .498 OPS)Royals CF Shane Costa (18 G, .310 BA, .328 OBP, 3 HR, 8 RBI, .845 OPS)2B Mark Grudzielanek (19 G, .307 BA, .338 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .764 OPS)DH Mike Sweeney (17 G, .193 BA, .329 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, .629 OPS)RF Reggie Sanders (17 G, .224 BA, .243 OBP, 3 HR, 12 RBI, .646 OPS)1B Doug Mientkiewicz (18 G, .250 BA, .303 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .653 OPS)LF Emil Brown (20 G, .203 BA, .275 OBP, 1 HR, 10 RBI, .579 OPS)3B Mark Teahen (17 G, .232 BA, .279 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .672 OPS)SS Angel Berroa (20 G, .296 BA, .306 OBP, 1 HR, 8 RBI, .700 OPS)C John Buck (17 G, .214 BA, .277 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .610 OPS)

[wsox8 10]

whoa, if I throw different pitches at different places, the batter won't know what to expect! why didn't I think of this before??I found parts of it funny like the above part.