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Game Preview: MIN @ TBR, 4:10pm, Saturday, April 16, 2011 @Tropicana Field

Twins, 4-9, 4-9 5th, 5 GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Scott Baker (29, RHP, 0-2, 6.55)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (0-2) 11.0 12 8 8 6 9 4 6.55
2010 (12-9) 170.1 186 87 85 43 148 23 4.49
2009 (15-9) 200.0 190 99 97 48 162 28 4.37
Last 7 GS 2-2 36.2 35 16 15 18 36 6 3.68 52
2011-04-10 OAK L 5.0 7 4 4 2 5 2 99 40
2011-04-04 @NYY L 6.0 5 4 4 4 4 2 96 46
2010-09-29 @KCR ND 5.0 6 2 2 4 9 1 100 52
2010-09-21 CLE ND 5.0 4 2 1 1 7 0 91 59
2010-09-02 DET ND 2.0 3 2 2 2 3 1 46 43
2010-08-27 @SEA W 6.2 5 2 2 3 4 0 101 57
2010-08-22 LAA W 7.0 5 0 0 2 4 0 99 69
Last 5 v.TBR 2-2 32.2 30 12 12 3 32 4 3.31 59
2010-08-04 @TBR ND 8.0 3 0 0 1 7 0 105 82
2010-07-02 TBR W 7.0 6 1 1 0 8 0 101 69
2009-05-29 @TBR L 5.2 7 4 4 0 4 2 96 43
2009-04-27 TBR L 6.0 6 4 4 1 7 0 99 50
2006-07-17 TBD W 6.0 8 3 3 1 6 2 92 49
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    2-3    Road:    2-6    ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:   0-7    vsLHP:   4-2    1-Run:   4-4 
 vsEast:  2-6    vsCntrl: 1-1    vsWest:  1-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 13 Fri, Apr 15  @TBR  L   2-5        4-9   5th  5.0 gb
 12 Thu, Apr 14  @TBR  L   3-4 (10)   4-8   5th  4.0 gb
 11 Wed, Apr 13   KCR  L   5-10       4-7   5th  3.5 gb
 10 Tue, Apr 12   KCR  W   4-3 (10)   4-6   4th  3.5 gb
  9 Sun, Apr 10   OAK  L   3-5        3-6   4th  4.0 gb
  8 Sat, Apr  9   OAK  L   0-1        3-5   4th  3.0 gb
  7 Fri, Apr  8   OAK  W   2-1        3-4   4th  2.0 gb
  6 Thu, Apr  7  @NYY  L   3-4        2-4   4th  2.0 gb
  5 Tue, Apr  5  @NYY  W   5-4 (10)   2-3   4th  2.0 gb
  4 Mon, Apr  4  @NYY  L   3-4        1-3   4th  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 4-9    Last 30: 4-9
Rays, 5-8, 5-8 4th, 2½ GB, 2½ GB in WC

SP: Jeff Niemann (28, RHP, 0-2, 8.31)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (0-2) 8.2 14 10 8 3 5 3 8.31
2010 (12-8) 174.1 159 86 85 61 131 25 4.39
2009 (13-6) 180.2 185 84 79 59 125 17 3.94
Last 7 GS 1-5 32.1 37 29 27 15 26 7 7.52 41
2011-04-10 @CHW L 2.2 5 5 3 2 1 2 46 31
2011-04-05 LAA L 6.0 9 5 5 1 4 1 91 37
2010-09-29 BAL L 7.0 4 2 2 1 3 0 84 63
2010-09-24 SEA W 5.2 7 3 3 1 4 0 79 46
2010-09-19 LAA L 4.1 6 5 5 3 5 2 100 33
2010-09-12 @TOR ND 5.0 2 3 3 4 5 0 73 52
2010-09-06 @BOS L 1.2 4 6 6 3 4 2 65 24
Last 5 v.MIN 2-0 19.1 17 7 7 8 13 3 3.26 54
2010-08-03 MIN W 7.0 8 3 3 2 4 1 104 51
2010-07-01 @MIN ND 6.2 6 3 3 2 5 1 104 53
2009-04-27 @MIN W 5.2 3 1 1 4 4 1 94 59
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    2-5    Road:    3-3    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   3-7    vsLHP:   2-1    1-Run:   2-0 
 vsEast:  2-3    vsCntrl: 3-3    vsWest:  0-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 13 Fri, Apr 15   MIN  W   5-2        5-8   4th  2.5 gb
 12 Thu, Apr 14   MIN  W   4-3 (10)   4-8   4th  3.5 gb
 11 Tue, Apr 12  @BOS  W   3-2        3-8   4th  4.0 gb
 10 Mon, Apr 11  @BOS  W  16-5        2-8   4th  4.5 gb
  9 Sun, Apr 10  @CHW  L   1-6        1-8   5th  5.0 gb
  8 Sat, Apr  9  @CHW  L   2-4        1-7   4th  5.0 gb
  7 Fri, Apr  8  @CHW  W   9-7        1-6   4th  4.5 gb
  6 Thu, Apr  7  @CHW  L   1-5        0-6   4th  5.0 gb
  5 Wed, Apr  6   LAA  L   1-5        0-5   4th  4.0 gb
  4 Tue, Apr  5   LAA  L   3-5        0-4   4th  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 5-8    Last 30: 5-8 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Apr 15, 2011 TBR  5  MIN  2        W:Wade Davis (1-2), L: Nick Blackburn (1-2), S: Kyle Farnsworth (3)
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 TBR  4  MIN  3 (10)   W:Kyle Farnsworth (1-0), L: Matt Capps (1-1), S: none

Thu, Aug 05, 2010 MIN  8 @TBR  6        W:Matt Capps (4-3), L: Joaquin Benoit (0-1), S: none
Wed, Aug 04, 2010 MIN  2 @TBR  1 (13)   W:Matt Guerrier (2-6), L: Lance Cormier (3-3), S: none
Tue, Aug 03, 2010 TBR  6  MIN  4        W:Jeff Niemann (10-3), L: Matt Guerrier (1-6), S: Rafael Soriano (31)
Mon, Aug 02, 2010 TBR  4  MIN  2        W:Jeremy Hellickson (1-0), L: Carl Pavano (13-7), S: Dan Wheeler (3)
Sun, Jul 04, 2010 TBR  7 @MIN  4        W:James Shields (7-8), L: Nick Blackburn (7-6), S: Rafael Soriano (21)
Sat, Jul 03, 2010 TBR  8 @MIN  6        W:Randy Choate (1-2), L: Matt Guerrier (1-4), S: Rafael Soriano (20)
Fri, Jul 02, 2010 MIN  2  TBR  1        W:Scott Baker (7-7), L: David Price (11-4), S: Jon Rauch (18)
Thu, Jul 01, 2010 TBR  5 @MIN  4 (10)   W:Lance Cormier (3-1), L: Matt Guerrier (1-3), S: Rafael Soriano (19)
Season Series: 2011 - TBR over 2-0; 2010 - TBR won 5-3; 2009 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - MIN leads 56-46

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 2011 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 2010 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

NYY  5.30

ARI  4.40

SEA  3.17

 RA/G

SDP  3.59

CHW  4.35

PIT  5.35

 BA

J. Hamilton  .359

M. Mora  .285

B. Wood  .146

 OBP

J. Morneau  .437

O. Infante  .359

B. Wood  .174

 SLG

J. Hamilton  .633

C. Granderson  .468

B. Wood  .208

 OPS

J. Morneau  1.055

A. Torres  .823

B. Wood  .382

 ERA

F. Hernandez  2.27

C. Pavano  3.75

J. Bonderman  5.53

 K/9IP

T. Lincecum  9.79

M. Cain  7.13

K. Kendrick  4.18

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2011 season. Player Stats for the 2010 season. We will switch to 2011 stats on May 1st.

Twins Batters (2.92 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (4.31 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 42.Niemann
G/S/vB		 42.Cruz
G/S/vB		 42.Farnsworth
G/S/vB		 42.McGee*
G/S/vB		 42.Peralta
G/S/vB		 42.Ramos*
G/S/vB		 42.Russell
G/S/vB		 42.Sonnanstine
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
42.Butera G/S/vP 3/3.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 155/89 .197/.237/.296/.533 .453/.591 .528 15/.267 0/0 2/5
42.Casilla# G/S/vP 7/.333 ··· 3/1.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 4/.000 170/132 .276/.331/.395/.726 .813/.702 .751 26/.368 6/1 1/5
42.Cuddyer G/S/vP 9/1.270 5/1.800 12/.969 ··· 7/.286 1/.000 ··· ··· 675/460 .271/.336/.417/.753 .875/.700 .722 49/.530 7/3 14/6
42.Holm G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 0/ / /
42.Hughes G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 7/3 .286/.286/.714/1.000 .500/1.667 1.000 13/.462 0/1 1/0
42.Kubel* G/S/vP 9/.000 2/.500 5/.000 1/.000 3/.000 1/no AB ··· 3/.000 582/399 .249/.323/.427/.750 .655/.792 .753 49/.710 0/1 21/5
42.Morneau* G/S/vP 6/.733 3/.666 9/1.444 ··· 8/1.875 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 348/215 .345/.437/.618/1.055 .966/1.113 1.205 52/.596 0/0 18/1
42.Repko G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 146/89 .228/.324/.346/.671 .523/.767 .842 2/.000 3/2 3/0
42.Span* G/S/vP 11/.819 3/.666 6/1.667 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 705/462 .264/.331/.348/.679 .696/.670 .602 57/.758 26/4 3/4
42.Thome* G/S/vP 13/.829 1/no AB 5/2.100 1/.000 10/1.944 1/.000 ··· 12/.916 340/246 .283/.412/.627/1.039 .769/1.154 .958 34/.661 0/0 25/
42.Tolbert# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 100/79 .230/.293/.379/.672 .198/.797 .401 15/.600 1/1 1/2
42.Valencia G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 322/211 .311/.351/.448/.799 .967/.713 .658 51/.667 2/0 7/6
42.Young G/S/vP 8/1.125 7/.629 15/.333 ··· 4/.750 ··· ··· ··· 613/419 .298/.333/.493/.826 .927/.781 .841 51/.510 5/4 21/4
IP 174.1 5.1 64.2 5.0 49.0 8.1 15.2 81.0 TOTAL .234/.283/.304/.587 .540/.619 .556 .587 3/0 3/9
ERA-K/9 4.39/6.8 3.38/11.9 3.34/8.5 1.80/10.8 2.02/9.0 11.88/9.8 4.02/10.3 4.44/5.6 3.91/5.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (21-16-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 733/.242 28/.391 267/.230 20/.118 189/.170 47/.419 63/.255 355/.259 .257  Young
 Kubel
 Repko
 Cuddyer
 Span
 Casilla
 Tolbert
149/0/0/12
16/0/83/7
6/6/39/5
0/2/66/5
0/153/0/5
0/1/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .724 .960 .634 .426 .521 1.049 .602 .761 .736
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 369/.749 11/.899 126/.745 11/.697 72/.596 21/.697 25/.393 164/.738 .675
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 364/.698 17/1.000 141/.538 9/.111 117/.474 26/1.330 38/.734 191/.780 .779
Home 401/.708 18/.686 144/.660 9/.333 100/.526 23/.954 40/.627 149/.777
Last 28d days 43/1.045 17/.507 21/.538 17/1.012 24/.667 17/.567 18/.590 24/.683
HR/SB/CS 25/21/2 0/0/0 4/5/5 0/0/0 5/3/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 11/6/0 11/15/3
Usage ·····X·· oo····X· oo·oX··o oX····o· o··oX··X oX··o··X ····X·oo ·····X··

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2011 season. Player Stats for the 2010 season. We will switch to 2011 stats on May 1st.

Rays Batters (3.69 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.85 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 42.Baker
G/S/vB		 42.Burnett
G/S/vB		 42.Capps
G/S/vB		 42.Hughes*
G/S/vB		 42.Manship
G/S/vB		 42.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 42.Nathan
G/S/vB		 42.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
42.Brignac* G/S/vP 5/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 326/275 .256/.307/.385/.692 .609/.706 .635 31/.465 3/3 8/9
42.Damon* G/S/vP 17/.769 1/2.000 3/2.667 6/.750 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 5/.800 613/475 .271/.355/.401/.756 .740/.760 .794 52/.650 11/1 8/2
42.Fuld* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/28 .143/.226/.179/.404 .667/.374 .347 44/1.019 0/0 0/0
42.Jaso* G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 404/346 .263/.372/.378/.750 .610/.772 .613 25/.368 4/0 5/5
42.Johnson* G/S/vP 8/.250 ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 10/.000 ··· 140/117 .198/.343/.414/.757 .862/.738 .715 50/.434 1/0 7/2
42.Johnson# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 16/.732 / /
42.Joyce* G/S/vP 12/.531 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 4/.750 3/2.000 261/233 .241/.360/.477/.837 .263/.910 .698 41/.720 2/2 10/3
42.Kotchman* G/S/vP 15/.795 1/.000 2/.000 3/1.167 ··· 2/.000 3/.666 1/.000 457/338 .217/.280/.336/.616 .460/.670 .587 7/.286 0/0 9/1
42.Lopez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.500 4/1.000 441/299 .233/.311/.345/.656 .718/.626 .749 28/.857 8/2 8/13
42.Rodriguez G/S/vP 6/.833 2/1.000 1/no AB 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/4.500 378/242 .251/.308/.397/.705 .817/.642 .716 26/.647 13/3 9/6
42.Shoppach G/S/vP 12/.350 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 4/.250 3/.000 4/.750 187/83 .196/.308/.342/.650 .830/.422 .710 23/.625 0/0 5/2
42.Upton G/S/vP 9/.222 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.500 3/1.000 610/413 .237/.322/.424/.745 .919/.664 .759 52/.803 42/9 18/5
42.Zobrist# G/S/vP 11/.546 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 4/2.417 1/3.000 655/445 .238/.346/.353/.699 .695/.688 .646 51/.608 24/3 10/4
IP 170.1 47.2 73.0 56.1 29.0 32.2 21.2 TOTAL .219/.277/.357/.634 .753/.600 .581 .634 14/5 11/7
ERA-K/9 4.49/7.8 5.29/7.0 2.47/7.3 3.83/5.4 5.28/6.5 3.31/7.7 /0.0 5.82/5.8 4.64/5.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (41-12-7)
 Shoppach (29-6-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 725/.277 211/.287 305/.265 252/.273 124/.293 139/.268 / 98/.337 .263  Zobrist
 Joyce
 Upton
 Damon
 Fuld
 Brignac
 Lopez
 Johnson
 Rodriguez
1/14/103/6
13/0/53/4
0/154/0/3
33/4/0/2
8/7/0/0
0/0/2/0
0/0/1/0
3/0/0/0
5/9/8/0
OPS .793 .847 .688 .730 .773 .768 .938 .752
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 361/.830 76/.946 146/.654 115/.674 59/.676 62/.776 / 32/.657 .708
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 364/.756 135/.794 159/.719 137/.775 65/.861 77/.761 / 66/1.080 .788
Road 359/.839 97/.904 122/.639 125/.764 68/.790 65/.633 / 48/.983
Last 28d days 49/.983 11/.705 26/.533 26/.988 19/1.166 17/.371 23/.769 22/.382
HR/SB/CS 23/3/6 6/2/0 6/3/2 3/3/1 3/1/1 4/1/1 // 3/2/1 15/10/5
Usage ·····X·· ··X··Xo· ·o·X··o· o·oo··o· o·o··o·· ···o·Xo· ·X·o···X o·X··Xo·

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.