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Opening day is Thursday! Welcome to Twins Territory!

How will Willians Astudillo club do this year?

Berrios ranked 16th best opening day starter.

https://sports.yahoo.com/ranking-all-30-of-ml-bs-opening-day-starters-for-2019-184858285.html

Most exciting minor leaguers not including Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

Alex Kirilloff, OF, Minnesota Twins: A first-round pick in 2016, Kirilloff missed all of 2017 with Tommy John surgery but returned in 2018 to hit .348 with 20 home runs and 44 doubles across two levels of Class A ball. Kirilloff has one of the best pure bats in the minors, so don't be surprised if he hits his way into the big league lineup later this summer.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/26360072/the-most-exciting-teams-players-themes-2019-mlb-season

bleedspeed177 wrote:Most exciting minor leaguers not including Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

Alex Kirilloff, OF, Minnesota Twins: A first-round pick in 2016, Kirilloff missed all of 2017 with Tommy John surgery but returned in 2018 to hit .348 with 20 home runs and 44 doubles across two levels of Class A ball. Kirilloff has one of the best pure bats in the minors, so don't be surprised if he hits his way into the big league lineup later this summer.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/26360072/the-most-exciting-teams-players-themes-2019-mlb-season

Idk if you guys saw any of it but they televised the yankee/twins spring training game the other day the 6-8 hitters were Kirillof, Lewis and Larnach. It was nice to see the young talent hit. Also Lewis smacked a rocket to left center for a double off of James Paxton who's pretty darn good pitcher.

I didn't. The class of 2020 can't come soon enough It really makes it interesting that we signed Keplerto a longer deal.

bleedspeed177 wrote:I didn't. The class of 2020 can't come soon enough It really makes it interesting that we signed Keplerto a longer deal.

Speaking of Kepler Torii Hunter was on Wolfson's podcast recently and Wolfson asked Torii if Kepler had the prettiest swing on the roster and Torii danced around that a little and then said Kepler was a very good athlete and said if he went to the NFL combine and did all the drill and testing and people saw his body he would probably get drafted just based on his physical ability. That's probably going too far but still its probably a worthwhile compliment to consider when thinking about Kepler.

That is an interesting take on him. He was the guy overlooked and now he is resigned and Buxton and Sano are still trying to prove themselves. I hope he breaks out big this year.

Twins win the opener. Berrios pitched like an ace with 107s in 7.2 innings.

bleedspeed177 wrote:Twins win the opener. Berrios pitched like an ace with 107s in 7.2 innings.

I finished watching the game a little while ago and yes a fantastic game. Morneau was fantastic in the booth.

Think this will be a fun team to watch this year . Gone are the days of doing it the Twins way. Bring on the homers and strikeouts!