Daily Twins Daily: July 29, 2017

First: Was this Jaime Garcia’s first and last start with the Minnesota Twins? If it was, it was pretty good. Seth Stohs walks you through the rest of the details from Friday’s win over the Oakland A’s.

Second: Heading into the Dodgers series earlier in the week the Twins said they were not going to have Byron Buxton take a rehab assignment. After he showed up with migraine headaches and needing to sit out several games in a row, they changed their minds sent Buxton to Rochester. The Red Wings had him lead off on Friday and the game’s first pitch he deposited over the field fence.

There is plenty more minor league action across the organization and Tom Froemming has you covered.

Third: Let’s just say the Twins are indeed sellers after the weekend. Who stays? Who goes? Seth Stohs tries to handicap that action.

Home: I am super amused by the hero town ball umpire who decided to walk away from a tie game in the 10th inning rather than take any more guff from the players and fans. Robot umpires wouldn’t walk away from games.

Extra Innings: Twins Daily community member darin617 raises a good discussion in the forums -- the Twins only have 38 people committed to the 40-man roster. Could the last two slots come from outside the organization or are there two internal candidates ready for those?

Random: Heading into the bottom of the 7th inning of last night’s game, FSN flashed a graphic showing the day’s better performances around the league. One of the three blurbs was former Twin Kurt Suzuki who had launched his 11th home run of the season.

Both Dick Bremer and Roy Smalley were bemused by Suzuki’s recent power binge. Bremer noted that Suzuki has had a phenomenal July -- hitting seven home runs in the month -- and said that contending teams may be taking an interest in the catcher as a trade target. “I think he wants to stay in that bandbox in Atlanta,” added Smalley.

For the record, only two of his 11 home runs have come in the Braves new ballpark. He is also hitting . 250/.318/,382 at home while posting a .288/.376/.685 line on the road. So yeah, I think he’ll be fine leaving the bandbox in Atlanta.