{"id":16153,"date":"2025-07-22T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16153\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:19:08","slug":"with-mlb-trade-deadline-nearing-pressure-being-felt-by-struggling-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16153\/","title":{"rendered":"With MLB trade deadline nearing, pressure being felt by struggling Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might have seen Byron Buxton<\/a>\u2019s spectacular catch on the warning track in Denver on Saturday night, a snag he made flat on his back, and only after the ball bounded on his legs and stomach before he secured it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s what, 425 feet, maybe even more than that, from where we\u2019re sitting? So I couldn\u2019t really see much,\u201d Baldelli said of his view of the extra-deep center-field fence at Coors Field. \u201cThe players look like little specks, tiny little people out there, they\u2019re so far away. It was probably a good play.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was, and it was one more entry into the Twins\u2019 semiannual amazement at the unique baseball stage that is Coors Field. There is the mile-high altitude, the largest outfield in the game and the extra offense that those two factors produce.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to run a long way to catch a lot of the balls hit here,\u201d Baldelli said. \u201c[Harrison] Bader<\/a> probably ran, I don\u2019t know, a couple miles out there during the series because he\u2019s got to cover such a big [left-center] gap as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Castro played right field Friday and left field Sunday and said all the open spaces out there \u2014 the foul pole is 347 feet away in left field, 350 feet in right, and straightaway center is a largest-in-baseball 415 feet away \u2014 surprised him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might have seen Byron Buxton\u2019s spectacular catch on the warning track in Denver on Saturday night, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-16153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}