The Joe Ryan debut

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On the same day Kenta Maeda had Tommy John surgery that will keep him out for all of next year and more than likely end his days as a top starter, the Twins welcomed their prized acquisition from the trade deadline.

Joe Ryan, the starting pitcher the Twins got from Tampa Bay in the Nelson Cruz deal, made hi big league debut at home Wednesday night against the Cubs. The Cubs have been the worst team in baseball for like 3 months. Good soft spot to give the kid his debut. 

And Ryan looked good. Mostly. He got in a sticky situation in the 3rd, looked about to get out of it, but then gave up a 3 run homerun that elicited enormous cheers from a crowd that had to be majority Cubs fans. So, one shaky inning and one bad pitch. 

On some nights that would not have doomed Ryan to his 1st career loss. But on this night the Twins lineup put forth easily one of their sorriest performances of the year. No runs. Just 2 singles by Brent Rooker. A couple walks. That's it. Absolute garbage effort by a lineup that seemed checked out. Way to welcome the new guy.

Ryan figures to be in the 2022 rotation. Bailey Ober has a shot. Figures that another slot will be taken up by either one of the young guys we have seen (Jax, Barnes, Dobnak I suppose) or one we haven't (Duran, Winder). Maeda is out. So that means it will be back into the free agent fray for Falvine, who have mostly flopped in their free agent starter moves (Pineda was at best a B grade move). 

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