Twinkie Town Talk: The big bats edition

In case you missed it

• The Twins hit a whole bunch of dingers and won by a whole bunch of runs yesterday.

Elsewhere in Twins Territory

• Somewhere called “Baseball Essentials” thinks the Twins starting rotation is shaky, and needs to improve.
• The Twins currently own the best slugging percentage in baseball. Yeah, I’m as pleasantly surprised as anyone.
• But sadly, Willians Astudillo will be hitting the 10-day Injured List with a hammy issue.

Around Baseball

• Umpires missed almost 35,000 ball/strike calls last season, according to a bunch of really highly credentialed people from Boston University.
• It might not be fair to entirely blame the Orioles for the spike in MLB home runs... but the Twins did hit ten in two games against them. Hitters around the league are stroking dongs at a record rate.

Discussion topic

Who is your favorite relief pitcher, past or present?