Skenes’ Bold Move Against Twinkies Could Change the Pirates’ Fate Forever

I wrote about the Twins yesterday, so if you want to see more details about them, you can read that article – it was a winner. The Twins are a team that has been a bit all over the map, but let’s focus less on that and more on the trade potential. With the three Wild Card spots, more teams are tending to stay in the playoff race than avoid it. If I am the Twins, I probably either make the decision to go all in, or go all out. I’d trade away everyone of value – some starters, Byron Buxton, Carlos Correa. The other option would be trade anything in the farm system and see if you can leverage a good pitching staff to navigate through the American League. If today’s starter, Joe Ryan, arrives on the market, he should draw a lot of interest. Ryan is 8-4 for the season with a 2.76 ERA and a 0.89 WHIP. For the year, he has only three starts where he has allowed more than three earned runs, and only two more where he has allowed three or more. At home, he has been great, holding hitters to a .188 batting average. He has been very good against Pirates hitters, holding them to a .194 batting average over 36 at-bats. 

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