\u201cLouie threw us for a loop, for sure,\u201d Wallner said. \u201cDefinitely feel for him in that sense just being from Minnesota, his wife working in Minnesota. That\u2019s going to [hurt] for a little bit. He\u2019s an awesome player and he\u2019s going to be fine through it, but I definitely feel for him.\u201d <\/p>\n
Twins manager Rocco Baldelli met with all the traded players who had already traveled to Cleveland for their upcoming series in their hotel rooms. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was hardest on Lou,\u201d Baldelli said. \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s even close. I think it was tough for Lou to see how that could happen, a trade could happen, because he loves the organization, he loves being at home near his family and, on top of it, he\u2019s been doing such a great job for us.\u201d <\/p>\n
When the Twins returned to the ballpark Friday, everything felt strange. Many familiar name plates were gone. On July 22, the Twins beat the Dodgers 10-7 in Los Angeles. The Twins used 17 players in that game; nine are now on other teams. <\/p>\n
Baldelli and team President Derek Falvey spoke to players during a pregame team meeting. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t some rah-rah, let\u2019s go and let\u2019s do this,\u201d catcher Ryan Jeffers said, adding that they acknowledged how frustrating Thursday\u2019s moves were: \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to do that. It\u2019s not something we enjoy doing, but here we are.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLouie threw us for a loop, for sure,\u201d Wallner said. \u201cDefinitely feel for him in that sense just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-39117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}