The Minnesota Twins have the best defensive outfielder in baseball in Byron Buxton. Of course, Buxton has only managed to appear in more than 100 games once in his career, and that was all the way back in 2017. When Buxton was on the shelf in 2022, the Twins gave 347 plate appearances to Gilberto Celestino, a solid defender but a miserable offensive performer at the major-league level.
At TwinsFest in Minneapolis on Saturday, Duran said he thinks he can heat his fastball up to 105 mph this season. Last season, Duran's hardest pitch was a 103.3 mph fastball that he threw to Cleveland's Franmil Reyes on May 14. According to Baseball Savant, there were 23 pitches of at least 103 mph in the big leagues last season.
Jose Miranda can detail his exact weekly regimen, the elite team he assembled to guide him and all the work he did this offseason to help upgrade his game. But Carlos Correa can put it much more succinctly. "He looks sexy. You see that body?" Correa said Saturday from TwinsFest. "… He looks really good. He looks in shape. He looks ready to work." No, Miranda wasn't going around Target Field ...
No | Player | Pos |
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66 | P | |
81 | P | |
91 | P | |
59 | P | |
57 | P | |
54 | P | |
P | ||
70 | P | |
22 | P | |
48 | P | |
49 | P | |
18 | P | |
51 | P | |
58 | P | |
71 | P | |
17 | P | |
20 | P | |
15 | P | |
41 | P | |
77 | P | |
56 | P | |
37 | P | |
74 | P | |
78 | P |
No | Player | Pos |
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27 | C | |
8 | C |
No | Player | Pos |
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4 | SS | |
12 | SS | |
1 | 2B | |
2B | ||
23 | SS | |
64 | 1B | |
11 | SS |
No | Player | Pos |
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25 | CF | |
67 | CF | |
13 | LF | |
26 | RF | |
19 | LF | |
9 | LF | |
0 | CF | |
38 | RF |