Looking at his current 5-11 record, you'd never know that Kevin Correia has been one of the better starters for the Twins for the last two months. In his previous six starts he has had an ERA of 2.45. Yesterday he only gave up ONE earned run in six good innings.
The reason for the poor record is that he was getting less than two runs per game run support in that time. Yesterday was a different story. The Twins scored early and often going on to win 9-3. The only threat Colorado had was in the ninth, long after the game had already been decided.
Kendrys Morales is starting to get key hits again. Dozier has been lost at the plate for the better part of a month got an RBI too. Sadly, both are hitting in the .230 range, which is one of the reasons the Twins haven't been seeing many runs lately.
Another major reason is that Willingham (.211) is starting to resemble Aaron Hicks, and if rumors are true, the Twins are trying to trade him as soon as possible. Good riddance.
Have you seen the other averages?
Plouffe .239
Arcia .222
Fryer .182
Hicks and his .200 batting average is starting to look average for the Twins instead of poor...
The Twins pitching has been much better than the offense lately. Tom Brunansky hasn't shown me much as a hitting coach so far. ALL the Twins are far worse than they used to be.
I predicted that at the beginning of the season, if you'll remember, I asked at the beginning of the season why we would promote Bruno to the majors as hitting instructor when the major complaint of our recent call-ups from Triple A ball was that none had seemed to learn how to hit?
The Twins collective average this year? .246
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