MIN @ CHW, Monday, April 7, 2008 Game Preview

Minnesota Twins, 3-4, 3rd, 1½ GB, tied for WC	SP: Nick Blackburn (26, RHP, 0-1, 1.29) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-1) 7 5 1 1 1 6 0 1.29 2007 (0-2) 11.2 19 12 10 2 8 2 7.71 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 0-1 7 5 1 1 1 6 0 1.29 68 2008-04-02 LAA L 7 5 1 1 1 6 0 86 68 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CHW Has never faced CHW.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 3-4 Road: 0-0 ExtrInn: 0-0 vsRHP: 2-3 vsLHP: 1-1 1-Run: 2-2 vsEast: 0-0 vsCntrl: 2-1 vsWest: 1-3 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 7 Sun, Apr 6 KCR L 1-3 3-4 3rd 1.5 gb 6 Sat, Apr 5 KCR W 6-4 3-3 3rd 1.5 gb 5 Fri, Apr 4 KCR W 4-3 2-3 2nd 1.5 gb 4 Thu, Apr 3 LAA L 4-5 1-3 2nd 1.5 gb 3 Wed, Apr 2 LAA L 0-1 1-2 2nd 1.0 gb 2 Tue, Apr 1 LAA L 1-9 1-1 2nd 0.5 gb 1 Mon, Mar 31 LAA W 3-2 1-0 2nd 0.5 gb Last 10: 3-4 Last 20: 3-4 Last 30: 3-4
Chicago White Sox, 4-2, 2nd, 1 GB	SP: Javier Vazquez (31, RHP, 0-1, 7.20) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-1) 5 5 4 4 4 6 0 7.20 2007 (15-8) 216.2 197 95 90 50 213 29 3.74 2006 (11-12) 202.2 206 116 109 56 184 23 4.84 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 4-2 46 47 20 18 10 62 3 3.52 58 2008-04-02 CLE L 5 5 4 4 4 6 0 103 43 2007-09-28 DET W 7.2 7 2 2 1 9 0 109 65 2007-09-22 MIN W 7 5 2 2 2 11 1 119 68 2007-09-17 KCR W 8 5 2 2 0 13 1 109 77 2007-09-12 CLE W 6.1 6 2 1 1 9 0 114 63 2007-09-07 MIN ND 6 11 4 4 1 8 0 106 41 2007-09-01 CLE L 6 8 4 3 1 6 1 105 47 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.MIN 3-0 35.2 29 10 10 8 39 3 2.52 64 2007-09-22 MIN W 7 5 2 2 2 11 1 119 68 2007-09-07 MIN ND 6 11 4 4 1 8 0 106 41 2007-07-08 MIN W 9 8 3 3 0 8 1 120 67 2007-05-08 MIN ND 7 4 1 1 1 7 1 107 71 2007-04-07 MIN W 6.2 1 0 0 4 5 0 102 73
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 0-0 Road: 4-2 ExtrInn: 0-0 vsRHP: 2-1 vsLHP: 2-1 1-Run: 1-0 vsEast: 0-0 vsCntrl: 4-2 vsWest: 0-0 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 6 Sun, Apr 6 @DET W 13-2 4-2 2nd 1.0 gb 5 Sat, Apr 5 @DET W 5-3 3-2 2nd 1.0 gb 4 Fri, Apr 4 @DET W 8-5 2-2 2nd 1.5 gb 3 Thu, Apr 3 @CLE W 2-1 1-2 5th 2.0 gb 2 Wed, Apr 2 @CLE L 2-7 0-2 5th 2.0 gb 1 Mon, Mar 31 @CLE L 8-10 0-1 5th 1.0 gb Last 10: 4-2 Last 20: 4-2 Last 30: 4-2
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Sun, Sep 23, 2007 MIN 7 CHW 1 W:Kevin Slowey , L: Gavin Floyd , S: none Sat, Sep 22, 2007 CHW 8 @MIN 3 W:Javier Vazquez , L: Scott Baker , S: none Fri, Sep 21, 2007 CHW 6 @MIN 4 W:Mark Buehrle , L: Johan Santana , S: Bobby Jenks Sun, Sep 09, 2007 MIN 5 @CHW 2 W:Johan Santana , L: Jon Garland , S: Joe Nathan Sat, Sep 08, 2007 CHW 8 MIN 7 W:Mike Myers , L: Carmen Cali , S: Matt Thornton Fri, Sep 07, 2007 CHW 11 MIN 10 (13) W:Heath Phillips , L: Juan Rincon , S: none Sun, Jul 08, 2007 CHW 6 MIN 3 W:Javier Vazquez , L: Carlos Silva , S: none Sat, Jul 07, 2007 CHW 3 MIN 1 W:Mark Buehrle , L: Boof Bonser , S: Bobby Jenks Fri, Jul 06, 2007 MIN 12 @CHW 0 W:Matt Garza , L: Gavin Floyd , S: none Fri, Jul 06, 2007 MIN 20 @CHW 14 W:Scott Baker , L: Jon Garland , S: none Season Series: 2008 - 0-0; 2007 - Tied 9-9; 2006 - MIN won 10-9; All-Time - CHW leads 1054-957

Key for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids on the next pageKey for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids Below

Batter vs. Pitcher totals are career totals. All others are year-to-date.

PA - Plate Appearances (AB+BB+HBP+SH+SF+CI)
BF - Batters Faced
BA - Batting Average
OBP - On-Base Percentage
SLG - Slugging Percentage
Last 28d - PA and OPS in the last 28 days.
SB/CS - Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing
HR/E - Home Runs and Errors Made
ERA-K/9 - Earned Run Average and SO per 9 IP
Total - Team totals for those categories.
Usage - See the note below the grid. OPS - On-Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage (a good single number for measuring a player's hitting, avg. is .750 or so)
RA/G & RS/G - Runs scored and allowed per game.
PA/vRH - Plate Appearances overall/PA's vs. Right-handed Pitchers
Catcher Def. - Catcher Defense with each catcher's Stolen Bases, Caught Stealings, and Passed Balls allowed.
G/S/vB or G/S/vP - Links to the player's 2008 gamelogs, splits, or career batter vs. pitcher results
vLH/vRH - OPS vs. left-handed pitchers and vs. right-handed pitchers
Hm or Rd, Home or Road - OPS or OPS allowed in home or road games.
OF G: LF / CF / RF - A - Outfielders with the games played by position and their total number of assists
vs LHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against left-handed batters
vs RHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against right-handed batters
HR/SB/CS - Pitcher's Home Runs, Stolen Bases and Caught Stealings allowed

MLB Best, Middle, Worst

For the 2007 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

NYY 5.98

BAL 4.67

WSN 4.15

RA/G

BOS 4.06

KCR 4.80

TBD 5.83

M. Ordonez .363

J. Pierre .293

J. LaRue .148

OBP

B. Bonds .480

G. Atkins .367

J. LaRue .240

SLG

C. Ross .653

R. Ludwick .479

A. Gonzalez .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez 1.067

T. Glaus .839

J. LaRue .512

ERA

J. Peavy 2.54

A. Pettitte 4.05

S. Olsen 5.81

K/9IP

E. Bedard 10.93

G. Meche 6.50

A. Cook 3.31

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Minnesota Twins Batters (2.71 RS/G) vs. Chicago White Sox Pitchers (4.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 33.Vazquez
G/S/vB 26.Dotel
G/S/vB 45.Jenks
G/S/vB 71.Linebrink
G/S/vB 57.Logan*
G/S/vB 47.MacDougal
G/S/vB 46.Masset
G/S/vB 37.Thornton*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

12.Everett G/S/vP 11/1.155 ··· 3/.666 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 236/173 .232/.281/.318/.599 .558/.613 .619 / 4/2 2/8

22.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 139/77 .232/.288/.304/.592 .614/.569 .533 / 12/3 2/3

23.Harris G/S/vP 7/.572 3/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.667 ··· 1/.000 576/414 .286/.343/.434/.777 .897/.731 .799 / 4/1 12/13

16.Kubel* G/S/vP 18/.417 ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 4/.000 4/.500 466/382 .273/.335/.450/.785 .667/.810 .801 / 5/0 13/2

24.Lamb* G/S/vP 11/.818 3/.666 1/no AB 2/.000 2/no AB 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 353/296 .289/.366/.453/.820 1.056/.777 .764 / 0/0 11/11

7.Mauer* G/S/vP 22/.500 ··· 9/.873 1/.000 4/1.250 1/no AB 2/2.000 10/.522 471/312 .293/.382/.426/.808 .673/.877 .956 / 7/1 7/1

27.Monroe G/S/vP 15/.734 1/.000 9/.222 ··· 3/.333 8/.375 1/no AB 4/1.000 427/287 .219/.268/.370/.638 .805/.555 .682 / 0/4 12/3

33.Morneau* G/S/vP 39/1.462 2/2.500 11/.182 ··· 8/1.375 5/1.000 4/3.000 11/.364 668/445 .271/.343/.492/.834 .693/.907 .851 / 1/1 31/5

8.Punto# G/S/vP 27/.607 ··· 4/.583 ··· 2/.000 7/.858 3/1.334 11/.830 536/364 .210/.291/.271/.562 .483/.599 .581 / 16/6 1/13

55.Redmond G/S/vP 19/.737 6/1.267 3/.333 ··· ··· 4/1.000 2/1.500 ··· 298/198 .294/.346/.353/.699 .853/.623 .678 / 0/0 1/0

2.Span* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

20.Tolbert G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

21.Young G/S/vP 9/.944 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.167 1/2.000 2/1.000 681/509 .288/.316/.408/.723 .752/.714 .733 / 10/3 13/7

IP 216.2 30.2 65.0 70.1 50.2 42.1 39.1 56.1 TOTAL /// / / /3

ERA-K/9

3.74/8.8

4.11/12.0

2.77/7.8

3.71/6.4

4.97/6.2

6.80/8.3

7.09/4.8

4.79/8.8

0.00/0.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Mauer (21-24-4)
Redmond (23-16-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 882/.242 138/.242 249/.198 295/.253 226/.298 208/.291 193/.323 249/.269 Young
Monroe
Gomez
Kubel
Lamb 0/29/133/16
102/7/9/6
27/4/22/3
84/0/0/2
0/0/1/0

OPS .700 .748 .488 .742 .802 .839 .851 .783

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 409/.707 58/.756 108/.541 136/.706 99/.587 57/.910 79/.844 104/.800

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 473/.695 80/.740 141/.449 159/.773 127/.968 151/.812 114/.857 145/.771

Home 447/.680 84/.804 134/.472 145/.603 120/.874 102/.814 95/.906 131/.867

Last 28d days / / / / / / / /

HR/SB/CS 29/6/4 4/2/0 2/5/0 12/6/3 7/7/1 3/9/0 2/8/1 4/1/1 //

Usage ····X··· ··oo··X· ·oXo···· ·ooX···· ·oo···o· X···X··· ······X· ····X···

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Chicago White Sox Batters (6.33 RS/G) vs. Minnesota Twins Pitchers (3.86 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 53.Blackburn
G/S/vB 60.Bass
G/S/vB 28.Crain
G/S/vB 54.Guerrier
G/S/vB 36.Nathan
G/S/vB 17.Neshek
G/S/vB 37.Reyes*
G/S/vB 39.Rincon
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

32.Anderson G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 6/.367 3/.000 1/.000 2/.500 2/.000 19/10 .118/.211/.176/.387 .111/.633 .619 / 0/0 0/1

18.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.334 7/.453 12/.166 1/2.000 10/1.125 7/.572 701/550 .301/.345/.397/.742 .843/.715 .716 / 20/4 8/11

24.Crede G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/.666 12/.416 10/1.222 5/.000 6/1.100 16/.838 178/139 .216/.258/.317/.576 .514/.590 .541 / 0/1 4/4

23.Dye G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 10/.211 10/.600 11/1.080 4/.250 7/.929 12/.440 561/413 .254/.317/.486/.804 .925/.761 .801 / 2/1 28/3

44.Hall G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 6/.167 3/.000 120/64 .207/.225/.241/.466 .668/.297 .433 / 0/0 0/3

14.Konerko G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 10/.600 12/.000 12/.350 5/.600 7/.572 21/1.569 636/461 .259/.351/.490/.841 .988/.784 .863 / 0/1 31/5

38.Ozuna G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 85/46 .244/.280/.282/.563 .590/.533 .686 / 3/0 0/4

12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP ··· ··· 9/.708 12/.364 7/.286 5/1.400 7/.762 7/.572 509/393 .263/.309/.403/.712 .716/.710 .678 / 1/1 14/2

20.Quentin G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 263/187 .214/.298/.349/.647 .589/.670 .862 / 2/2 5/1

10.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

30.Swisher# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 7/1.229 5/.200 2/.000 6/.750 4/1.167 659/457 .262/.381/.455/.836 .921/.799 .820 / 3/2 22/5

25.Thome* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.250 6/.533 4/.500 ··· 9/1.842 11/1.985 536/367 .275/.410/.563/.973 .663/1.123 .991 / 0/1 35/0

5.Uribe G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 11/1.200 13/.539 9/.000 5/.000 4/1.833 12/.455 563/412 .234/.284/.394/.678 .757/.648 .783 / 1/9 20/17

IP 11.2 16.1 88.0 71.2 70.1 29.1 59.2 TOTAL /// / / /5

ERA-K/9

7.71/6.2

/0.0

5.51/5.5

2.35/7.0

1.88/9.7

2.94/9.5

3.99/6.5

5.13/7.4

0.00/0.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Hall (26-3-5)
Pierzynski (62-20-14)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 54/.365 / 71/.292 351/.220 282/.209 278/.183 139/.309 272/.273 Dye
Swisher
Quentin
Anderson
Ozuna 0/0/135/9
0/60/57/3
3/0/75/2
5/3/0/0
7/0/0/0

OPS .908 .876 .618 .574 .591 .810 .793

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 25/1.129 / 30/.872 153/.742 138/.620 113/.618 82/.673 132/.915

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 29/.724 / 41/.880 198/.523 144/.532 165/.573 57/1.009 140/.677

Road 32/1.242 / 33/1.140 157/.598 120/.607 123/.629 63/.862 134/.821

Last 28d days / / / / / / / /

HR/SB/CS 2/0/1 // 4/0/1 9/6/2 4/7/0 7/1/2 1/1/3 9/3/1 //

Usage ····X··· ···X·X·· X····o·· ·X·Xo··· ·oX···X· ··o·o·X· o··ooo·· ···o·X··

Usage -- each character represents the number of pitches thrown by the pitcher for yesterday, two days ago, three days ago, ...., up to eight days ago:
· - did not pitch; o - less than 16 pitches; X - at least 16 pitches (the median relief outing)
An Example ( ·X···o·X ): Yesterday off, 16 or more pitches, three days off, less than 16 pitches, day off, 16 or more pitches (8 days ago). Yesterday is in bold for improved scanning.

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Game Preview: MIN @ CHW, 4:05pm, Monday, April 7, 2008 @U.S. Cellular Field

SP: Nick Blackburn (26, RHP, 0-1, 1.29)

SP: Javier Vazquez (31, RHP, 0-1, 7.20)

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