Zebby Matthews shaky in return
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Welcome to Waiver Wire Watch, where I review my favorite waiver wire adds and drops for each week of the MLB season. The premise is pretty straightforward. I’ll try to give you some recommended adds each week based on recent production or role changes.
The Year of the Catcher continues! With the trade deadline looming, we've been hoping the Braves would look to move Sean Murphy to clear up one of the most frustrating playing time gluts at the position,
He certainly looks ready to return to the #MNTwins. Daniel Zebulon Matthews goes 4.0 shutout innings allowing 1 hit & striking out a career tying high 9. He threw 56 pitches, 38 for strikes. Had an astounding 52% whiff rate. His fastball averaged 97.4 mph, topped out at 98.7 mph pic.twitter.com/pi4JsFNP61
After grabbing an early three-run lead Saturday, the Twins’ offense went to sleep, and the Colorado Rockies roared to life. Home runs by Ryan McMahon, Ezequiel Tovar and Hunter Goodman powered the Rockies, who clinched only their third series victory of the season in 32 tries with a 10-6 win over the Twins in front of 42,131 at Coors Field.
But the lack of results, it seems, have gotten into his head. In Friday’s game, Lewis scorched a lineout at 104.3 mph off the bat at second baseman Ryan Ritter. In the past, he said he’s done a good job of walking away from something like that, thinking “It’s part of the process, part of the game.”
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Following Zebby Matthews' "dynamic performance" in a recent minor-league rehab start, Eric Samulski highlights several "great" signs about his road back to the Twins and fantasy relevance.
The Minnesota Twins have one of the best pitching staffs in baseball — that is, when the big names are healthy. With Pablo López, Bailey Ober, and Zebby Matthews set to return soon, starting pitching should once again be a strength of the team. The bullpen, aside from a few rocky appearances in June, have been lights out.
Ezequiel Tovar hit a three-run homer to break a fifth-inning tie and the Colorado Rockies secured their first home series victory of the season with a 10-6 win over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday night.
But that wasn’t the only good injury news from Friday night, that might help fans offset the disappointment of a slow start out of the break, revolved around another Minnesota Twins starter, Zebby Matthews, who has been out of the rotation since the first week of June, when he went down with a shoulder injury.
The second half is underway, and I promise you there is still time to make up ground in your fantasy leagues. If you’ve dealt with injuries or poor performance or just can’t quite seem to string together consistent success,