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Game Preview: KCR @ MIN, 8:10pm, Friday, April 16, 2010 @Target Field

Royals, 4-5, 4-53rd, 2½ GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: Zack Greinke (26, RHP, 0-1, 3.55)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (0-1) 12.2 14 6 5 1 9 2 3.55
2009 (16-8) 229.1 195 64 55 51 242 11 2.16
2008 (13-10) 202.1 202 87 78 56 183 21 3.47
Last 7 GS 3-1 43.2 36 12 11 10 41 2 2.27 61
2010-04-10 BOS L 6.2 8 4 4 0 5 2 108 47
2010-04-05 DET ND 6.0 6 2 1 1 4 0 96 57
2009-10-03 @MIN ND 6.0 6 4 4 2 5 0 96 47
2009-09-27 MIN W 7.0 7 1 1 2 8 0 97 65
2009-09-22 BOS W 6.0 2 0 0 3 5 0 91 70
2009-09-17 @DET W 5.0 3 0 0 2 8 0 77 67
2009-09-11 @CLE ND 7.0 4 1 1 0 6 0 102 71
Last 5 v.MIN 1-1 33.0 31 14 13 13 28 1 3.55 55
2009-10-03 @MIN ND 6.0 6 4 4 2 5 0 96 47
2009-09-27 MIN W 7.0 7 1 1 2 8 0 97 65
2008-08-09 MIN L 5.0 9 6 5 3 6 1 104 30
2008-05-28 MIN ND 8.0 5 3 3 2 8 0 117 66
2007-04-26 @MIN ND 7.0 4 0 0 4 1 0 108 66
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    2-4    Road:    2-1    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   4-3    vsLHP:   0-2    1-Run:   2-1 
 vsEast:  1-2    vsCntrl: 3-3    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  9 Wed, Apr 14  @DET  W   7-3        4-5   3rd  2.0 gb
  8 Tue, Apr 13  @DET  L   5-6        3-5   3rd  3.0 gb
  7 Mon, Apr 12  @DET  W  10-5        3-4   3rd  2.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr 11   BOS  L   6-8        2-4   3rd  3.0 gb
  5 Sat, Apr 10   BOS  L   3-8        2-3   3rd  2.5 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  9   BOS  W   4-3        2-2   3rd  1.5 gb
  3 Thu, Apr  8   DET  L   3-7        1-2   4th  1.5 gb
  2 Wed, Apr  7   DET  W   3-2 (11)   1-1   2nd  0.5 gb
  1 Mon, Apr  5   DET  L   4-8        0-1   3rd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-5    Last 20: 4-5    Last 30: 4-5
Twins, 7-3, 7-31st, ½ up

SP: Scott Baker (28, RHP, 1-1, 3.86)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (1-1) 11.2 10 5 5 4 6 1 3.86
2009 (15-9) 200.0 190 99 97 48 162 28 4.37
2008 (11-4) 172.1 161 66 66 42 141 20 3.45
Last 7 GS 3-2 39.0 40 20 19 13 26 4 4.38 49
2010-04-10 @CHW W 7.0 5 1 1 1 3 0 99 65
2010-04-05 @LAA L 4.2 5 4 4 3 3 1 92 38
2009-10-06 DET ND 6.0 6 3 3 2 2 1 91 48
2009-10-01 @DET W 5.0 5 1 0 3 3 0 106 55
2009-09-26 @KCR W 6.1 6 4 4 1 5 2 91 49
2009-09-20 DET L 4.2 8 4 4 1 5 0 86 36
2009-09-15 CLE ND 5.1 5 3 3 2 5 0 101 49
Last 5 v.KCR 3-1 31.1 27 12 12 6 26 3 3.45 57
2009-09-26 @KCR W 6.1 6 4 4 1 5 2 91 49
2009-06-30 @KCR W 5.0 5 1 1 2 1 0 111 52
2009-05-03 KCR L 6.0 5 5 5 1 4 1 104 45
2008-09-28 KCR W 7.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 99 77
2008-08-10 @KCR ND 7.0 7 2 2 1 7 0 112 61
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    2-1    Road:    5-2    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   4-2    vsLHP:   3-1    1-Run:   2-1 
 vsEast:  2-1    vsCntrl: 2-1    vsWest:  3-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 10 Thu, Apr 15   BOS  W   8-0        7-3   1st  0.5 up
  9 Wed, Apr 14   BOS  L   3-6        6-3   1st    Tied
  8 Mon, Apr 12   BOS  W   5-2        6-2   1st  0.5 up
  7 Sun, Apr 11  @CHW  L   4-5        5-2   2nd  0.5 gb
  6 Sat, Apr 10  @CHW  W   2-1        5-1   1st  0.5 up
  5 Fri, Apr  9  @CHW  W   4-3 (11)   4-1   1st  0.5 up
  4 Thu, Apr  8  @LAA  W  10-1        3-1   1st  0.5 up
  3 Wed, Apr  7  @LAA  W   4-2        2-1   1st  0.5 up
  2 Tue, Apr  6  @LAA  W   5-3        1-1   3rd  0.5 gb
  1 Mon, Apr  5  @LAA  L   3-6        0-1   3rd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20: 7-3    Last 30: 7-3 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Oct 04, 2009 MIN 13  KCR  4        W:Carl Pavano (14-12), L: Luke Hochevar (7-13), S: none
Sat, Oct 03, 2009 MIN  5  KCR  4        W:Jon Rauch (7-3), L: Dusty Hughes (0-2), S: Joe Nathan (47)
Fri, Oct 02, 2009 MIN 10  KCR  7        W:Jeff Manship (1-1), L: Lenny DiNardo (0-3), S: Joe Nathan (46)
Sun, Sep 27, 2009 KCR  4  MIN  1        W:Zack Greinke (16-8), L: Francisco Liriano (5-13), S: Joakim Soria (29)
Sat, Sep 26, 2009 MIN 11 @KCR  6        W:Scott Baker (14-9), L: Lenny DiNardo (0-2), S: none
Fri, Sep 25, 2009 MIN  9 @KCR  4        W:Carl Pavano (13-11), L: Rob Tejeda (4-2), S: none
Sun, Aug 23, 2009 MIN 10 @KCR  3        W:Carl Pavano (11-9), L: Brian Bannister (7-10), S: none
Sat, Aug 22, 2009 MIN  8 @KCR  7        W:Brian Duensing (1-1), L: Kyle Davies (4-9), S: Matt Guerrier (1)
Fri, Aug 21, 2009 MIN  5 @KCR  4 (10)   W:Joe Nathan (2-1), L: Joakim Soria (3-1), S: none
Thu, Aug 13, 2009 KCR  5 @MIN  4        W:Gil Meche (5-9), L: Carl Pavano (10-9), S: Joakim Soria (19)
Season Series: 2010 -  0-0; 2009 - MIN won 12-6; 2008 - MIN won 12-6; All-Time - MIN leads 327-295

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 2010 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 2009 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

NYY  5.65

DET  4.56

SDP  3.94

 RA/G

SFG  3.77

NYM  4.67

BAL  5.41

 BA

J. Mauer  .365

Y. Torrealba  .291

A. Miles  .185

 OBP

J. Mauer  .444

W. Harris  .364

A. Miles  .224

 SLG

A. Pujols  .658

J. Thome  .481

A. Miles  .242

 OPS

A. Pujols  1.101

B. McCann  .834

A. Miles  .466

 ERA

Z. Greinke  2.16

J. Niemann  3.94

L. Hernandez  5.44

 K/9IP

T. Lincecum  10.43

J. Cueto  6.94

J. Lannan  3.88

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2010 season. Player Stats for the 2009 season. We will switch to 2010 stats on May 1st.

Royals Batters (5.00 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (2.90 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Baker
G/S/vB		 55.Condrey
G/S/vB		 28.Crain
G/S/vB		 54.Guerrier
G/S/vB		 47.Liriano*
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 17.Neshek
G/S/vB		 60.Rauch
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Anderson G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 4/.000 8/.268 5/.200 3/2.000 1/.000 ··· 231/156 .243/.328/.347/.674 .615/.700 .728 / 3/6 4/2
24.Ankiel* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 404/306 .231/.285/.387/.672 .563/.708 .691 35/.843 4/3 11/5
30.Aviles G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· 3/.666 2/1.000 10/1.100 2/1.500 ··· ··· 127/80 .183/.208/.250/.458 .535/.416 .403 1/.000 1/0 1/4
3.Betancourt G/S/vP 20/.450 ··· 10/1.400 13/.879 17/.412 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 508/376 .245/.274/.351/.625 .772/.573 .559 35/.708 3/3 6/18
8.Bloomquist G/S/vP 9/.444 ··· 3/.333 8/.804 10/.958 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 468/283 .265/.308/.355/.663 .666/.661 .766 8/.000 25/6 4/10
16.Butler G/S/vP 22/.090 ··· 6/1.000 10/.800 16/.742 4/.500 3/1.667 3/.666 672/466 .301/.362/.492/.853 .966/.805 .679 40/.816 1/0 21/10
13.Callaspo# G/S/vP 10/.800 1/.000 4/.833 8/.750 10/1.000 4/1.000 1/.000 3/.333 634/442 .300/.356/.457/.813 .913/.768 .740 37/.669 2/1 11/17
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP 17/.669 1/2.000 11/.899 17/.823 10/.522 3/.666 4/.000 ··· 627/407 .281/.347/.434/.781 .690/.832 .743 40/.861 4/9 13/0
11.Fields G/S/vP 10/.222 ··· 5/.400 8/.393 5/1.350 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 268/186 .222/.301/.347/.648 .774/.595 .657 / 2/3 7/8
17.Getz* G/S/vP 7/.929 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 415/344 .261/.324/.347/.670 .650/.675 .694 33/.488 25/2 2/7
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 20/.472 1/.000 5/.200 4/.250 8/1.625 3/1.666 3/.000 ··· 189/132 .232/.324/.378/.703 .635/.731 .703 / 5/0 6/10
6.Guillen G/S/vP 19/.787 3/.666 10/.400 5/.000 13/.770 2/1.000 4/1.500 2/1.000 312/210 .242/.314/.367/.681 .554/.743 .635 39/1.271 1/0 9/4
18.Kendall G/S/vP 10/.700 1/.000 3/.333 11/.728 8/.875 1/3.000 3/1.334 1/.000 526/432 .241/.331/.305/.636 .635/.636 .612 37/.903 7/2 2/8
12.Maier* G/S/vP 13/.718 ··· 3/.666 3/.666 7/.453 3/.666 1/2.000 2/.000 397/289 .243/.333/.331/.665 .839/.603 .609 10/.222 9/2 3/0
27.Pena# G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 3/1.000 ··· ··· 183/112 .273/.318/.442/.761 .668/.817 .797 1/.000 0/0 6/0
22.Podsednik* G/S/vP 15/.795 1/no AB 5/.400 14/.297 9/.583 7/.143 1/2.000 1/.000 587/426 .304/.353/.412/.764 .723/.780 .759 43/1.011 30/13 7/2
IP 200.0 42.0 51.2 76.1 136.2 61.2 70.0 TOTAL .307/.362/.450/.812 .883/.783 .939 .812 12/1 10/7
ERA-K/9 4.37/7.3 3.00/5.4 4.70/7.5 2.36/5.5 5.80/8.0 2.34/8.0 /0.0 3.60/6.3 2.90/6.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kendall (64-16-4)
 Pena (17-9-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 828/.247 174/.233 230/.250 304/.207 609/.279 253/.224 / 299/.262 .245  DeJesus
 Maier
 Podsednik
 Ankiel
 Guillen
 Bloomquist
 Anderson
139/3/2/13
17/85/36/11
78/50/3/6
25/66/27/5
4/0/65/4
9/22/61/3
4/67/17/3
OPS .709 .645 .722 .598 .830 .649 .722 .676
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 407/.607 65/.537 94/.954 120/.525 155/.631 114/.480 / 138/.724 .556
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 421/.805 109/.707 136/.571 184/.645 454/.899 139/.791 / 161/.718 .753
Home 423/.656 93/.651 130/.732 148/.668 247/.779 133/.694 / 176/.712
Last 28d days 48/.655 / 17/.669 17/.364 52/.511 16/1.456 14/.445 19/.579
HR/SB/CS 28/10/3 4/2/0 3/4/1 10/4/2 21/15/9 7/5/0 // 6/5/0 8/1/5
Usage

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2010 season. Player Stats for the 2009 season. We will switch to 2010 stats on May 1st.

Twins Batters (4.80 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (5.56 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS Greinke
G/S/vB		 56.Colon
G/S/vB		 37.Cruz
G/S/vB		 40.Farnsworth
G/S/vB		 31.Hughes*
G/S/vB		 48.Soria
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
41.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 4/.000 / /
12.Casilla# G/S/vP 12/.450 1/.000 ··· 3/1.000 ··· 4/.833 256/178 .202/.280/.259/.538 .488/.565 .515 2/.000 11/0 0/5
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 20/.618 4/1.500 4/1.750 11/1.064 1/5.000 7/.286 650/468 .276/.342/.520/.862 1.013/.803 .910 45/.890 6/1 32/6
27.Hardy G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 465/364 .229/.302/.357/.659 .539/.689 .709 43/.686 0/1 11/8
23.Harris G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· 5/.400 ··· 4/.500 453/292 .261/.310/.362/.672 .751/.628 .809 12/.778 0/2 6/12
1.Hudson# G/S/vP 8/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 631/469 .283/.357/.417/.774 .854/.747 .807 46/.540 8/1 9/8
16.Kubel* G/S/vP 18/.804 1/.000 1/.000 5/.000 2/1.000 7/.000 578/414 .300/.369/.539/.907 .643/1.014 .956 34/.947 1/1 28/0
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 31/.582 4/1.417 3/.333 8/1.125 2/.000 10/.944 606/383 .365/.444/.587/1.031 .910/1.103 1.111 41/1.052 4/1 28/3
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 24/.417 2/1.000 3/.666 9/1.444 ··· 11/.182 590/364 .274/.363/.516/.878 .836/.906 .914 46/.983 0/0 30/3
8.Punto# G/S/vP 22/.586 5/.400 4/.250 5/1.250 ··· 5/.000 440/308 .228/.337/.284/.621 .642/.608 .599 28/.709 16/3 1/7
2.Span* G/S/vP 10/.444 2/.000 3/.666 4/2.083 ··· 8/.393 676/462 .311/.392/.415/.807 .877/.774 .848 49/.611 23/10 8/5
25.Thome* G/S/vP 33/.781 2/1.500 1/no AB 5/2.100 ··· 6/.334 434/329 .249/.366/.481/.847 .743/.881 .890 21/.707 0/0 23/
21.Young G/S/vP 14/1.227 2/2.000 5/.650 13/.385 ··· 6/.533 416/282 .284/.308/.425/.733 .833/.685 .709 29/1.033 2/5 12/5
IP 229.1 50.1 50.1 37.1 14.0 53.0 TOTAL .274/.352/.447/.799 .885/.754 .894 .799 7/1 13/2
ERA-K/9 2.16/9.5 4.83/5.2 5.72/6.8 4.58/10.1 5.14/9.6 2.21/11.7 5.27/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Mauer (54-19-9)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 915/.230 220/.256 219/.246 168/.287 63/.245 222/.219 .286  Span
 Cuddyer
 Young
 Kubel
74/84/39/6
0/3/117/5
98/0/0/4
29/0/30/1
OPS .611 .758 .760 .727 .742 .614 .848
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 440/.651 94/.713 106/.738 77/.753 15/.533 116/.560 .787
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 475/.574 126/.792 113/.781 91/.706 48/.817 106/.674 .884
Road 431/.620 96/.796 95/.572 72/.712 42/.905 126/.529
Last 28d days 54/.755 14/1.208 24/.885 16/.708 16/1.021 15/.747
HR/SB/CS 11/5/9 7/7/1 6/2/3 3/2/2 2/0/1 5/0/1 12/3/3
Usage

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.