{"id":1950399,"date":"2025-08-09T00:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1950399"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:11:43","slug":"kansas-city-royals-vs-minnesota-twins-live-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kansas-city-royals-vs-minnesota-twins-live-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals vs Minnesota Twins Live Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

After their firesale<\/a>, the 54-60 Twins welcome the 57-58 Royals for a series at Target Field in Minneapolis. I gotta be honest – this Twins team now just looks like a collection of guys. I don\u2019t want to disparage any individual person. Every guy in the minors works hard to make it to MLB. But \u2026 really? I\u2019ve never heard of 99% of their roster. This seems to be a recurring theme on Fridays, where I just can\u2019t name most dudes on the opposing team\u2019s roster. That\u2019s just exacerbated with the Twins tonight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

In fact, if you look at the Twins lineup tweet, the caption says \u201cLet\u2019s Experience it\u201d. Experience\u2026what exactly? You can\u2019t come up with anything better than \u201cif you watch us, you will experience a baseball game\u201d? I feel like that\u2019s a borderline Jon Bois \u201cwatching baseball\u201d post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

I guess the Twins held on to ace Joe Ryan, who is in fact in the midst of an excellent season. His ERA is only 2.83, and that\u2019s supported by a 3.15 FIP. The underlying metrics like him. It\u2019s not hard to see – high strikeouts, low walks, low homers. All the things a pitcher wants. He\u2019s matched his career high in fWAR with a big chunk of the season still remaining.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

The Royals will start Seth Lugo, who was last seen having a rough start against Toronto. He went only 4 2\/3 innings and walked more guys than he struck out. Overall this season, Lugo\u2019s worse in several ways – he\u2019s walking more guys and giving up more homers. He\u2019s limited the damage by having a low BABIP and high left-on-base rate, but those tend to regress toward the mean. His curveball just doesn\u2019t have near the juice this year compared to last year. It\u2019s got less movement, fewer whiffs, and he happens to be throwing it just a little more than he threw it last year. Throwing more of a worse pitch\u2026well\u2026I don\u2019t know man. Lugo\u2019s got so many other pitches that something else should be effective to get him through.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

The Royals will continue with the Yastrzemski leadoff role and India being bumped further down the lineup. That seemed to work just fine, so I imagine they\u2019ll roll with it until it stops being fine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

The game will start at 7:10pm US Central. You can watch on FanDuel Sports Network Kansas City or listen on the Royals Radio Network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.royalsreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After their firesale, the 54-60 Twins welcome the 57-58 Royals for a series at Target Field in Minneapolis. I gotta be honest – this Twins team now just looks like a collection of guys. I don\u2019t want to disparage any individual person. Every guy in the minors works hard to make it to MLB. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1950400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[334583],"class_list":["post-1950399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-2025-royals-gamethreads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kansas-City-Royals-vs-Minnesota-Twins-Live-Discussion.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}