Twinkie Town Talk: The lucky or good edition

In case you missed it

• The Twins played the Mets, and utterly deGrominated them.
• A preview of the Mets, who the Twins play again tonight
• We also asked some questions of Amazin’ Avenue, and they came through with some great answers
• BreakingT put together some AWESOME La Tortuga shirts that you can buy!
• and a fantastic fanpost about the future of first base

Elsewhere in Twins Territory

• Would you rather be lucky or good? Do-Hyoung Park looks at some stats that suggest the Twins aren’t just lucky this season
• Beyond the Box Score looked at the closest player comps to Willians Astudillo... and they’re all in the Hall of Fame. I don’t even feel bad that I keep giving you Astudillo links.
• Fangraphs looks at how the Twins are embracing the new and modern under pitching coach Wes Johnson

And around the baseball world

• The double-A Reading Fightin Phils spent three months spelling out the speech from “Field of Dreams” in their tweets, and no one caught on until the big reveal.
• Cleveland’s very-good pitcher, Mike Clevinger won’t even be picking up a baseball for the next six-to-eight weeks due to back injury. While that’s never a good situation, it does open up the division a bit.
• A woman is suing the Houston Astros for over $1 million due to her finger being broken by a t-shirt cannon at a game last season.

Today’s discussion question

What’s the coolest place you’ve ever traveled to?