Destination: The Show. Episode 132: E-Rod Debuts, Do the Twins Have a Core?

First headline, Jeremy, after everyone tried, or 50% of Twins fans on social media tried to convince us that Walker Jenkins was not good at baseball, it turns out that he is.

and in the last seven days is hitting a cool 440, 462, 800, good for a 1262 OPS with three home runs and just one strikeout and 26 plate appearances entering tonight.

I am personally of the opinion that I'm finding it very irritating that the Twins are winning tonight.

games with just a few to go.

We'll talk about that in a little bit.

But surely in a season that has just ended in just like so much disappointment, seeing Walker Jenkins like incredibly comfortable against major league pitching has to be a big plus for twins fans.

Yeah.

It was never worrisome as much as it was annoying that that people were really worried.

Right.

And he even he even said it.

i think it was dan hayes like quoted him as like i'm not gonna not hit forever like it's gonna be it's gonna be fun

that was a bunch of us reporters doing a little scrum there with him and he the thing he talked about in that session was his mental struggles at that moment were not nearly as bad as how they had been when he just got promoted up to say hi a double a triple a Cause there was a trend for him where every level he got promoted to, it took him a while to get started and get his swing going.

And he always finds his way.

And now we've just seen at the major league level.

Yeah.

And the swing is the swing is fun.

It it's, it's like a, like a hybrid more normal Mauer swing, right.

Where it's like, I watch him swing and I see a little bit of each of those guys.

And what, what I definitely see is a guy that's going to be, if healthy which has been a question mark like he's going to be in the lineup 140 games next year and it's going to be batting in in the the top three spots uh one of the top three spots and playing either i would assume center buxton's not healthy or probably left field if he if he

is dude i just like and like i i personally I'm old, so I find it hardest to keep up with the West Coast series.

We also both work in education, so that is a particular challenge for me personally.

But waking up to all of these strong performances, Jenkins by tomorrow morning when everything's...

I mean, he's going to be worth almost half a win already.

Culpepper... is between half and one already.

E-Rod's struggling a bit.

First headline, Jeremy, after everyone tried, or 50% of Twins fans on social media tried to convince us that Walker Jenkins was not good at baseball, it turns out that he is.

and in the last seven days is hitting a cool 440, 462, 800, good for a 1262 OPS with three home runs and just one strikeout and 26 plate appearances entering tonight.

I am personally of the opinion that I'm finding it very irritating that the Twins are winning tonight.

games with just a few to go.

We'll talk about that in a little bit.

But surely in a season that has just ended in just like so much disappointment, seeing Walker Jenkins like incredibly comfortable against major league pitching has to be a big plus for twins fans.

Yeah.

It was never worrisome as much as it was annoying that that people were really worried.

Right.

And he even he even said it.

i think it was dan hayes like quoted him as like i'm not gonna not hit forever like it's gonna be it's gonna be fun

that was a bunch of us reporters doing a little scrum there with him and he the thing he talked about in that session was his mental struggles at that moment were not nearly as bad as how they had been when he just got promoted up to say hi a double a triple a Cause there was a trend for him where every level he got promoted to, it took him a while to get started and get his swing going.

And he always finds his way.

And now we've just seen at the major league level.

Yeah.

And the swing is the swing is fun.

It it's, it's like a, like a hybrid more normal Mauer swing, right.

Where it's like, I watch him swing and I see a little bit of each of those guys.

And what, what I definitely see is a guy that's going to be, if healthy which has been a question mark like he's going to be in the lineup 140 games next year and it's going to be batting in in the the top three spots uh one of the top three spots and playing either i would assume center buxton's not healthy or probably left field if he if he

is dude i just like and like i i personally I'm old, so I find it hardest to keep up with the West Coast series.

We also both work in education, so that is a particular challenge for me personally.

But waking up to all of these strong performances, Jenkins by tomorrow morning when everything's...

I mean, he's going to be worth almost half a win already.

Culpepper... is between half and one already.

E-Rod's struggling a bit.