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The Twins are now two behind the Royals and Tigers with three to play. Edwards went 6-for-13 with three RBI in the series to help spoil things for Minnesota. He has to be viewed as a top-100 player for 2025, given his .319 average and 31 steals in 67 games. If only he had a major league offense supporting him, he could be a true fantasy superstar.

It’s never a positive sign to see a player immediately exit after being hit by a pitch in the hand area, but Garver’s exit appears to be precautionary, at a bare minimum. The 34-year-old veteran slugged two-run homer — his third round-tripper of the spring — against Brewers starter Tobias Myers during his first at-bat of the Cactus League contest prior to being hit by a pitch his next time up. There should be an additional update on his status shortly.

Cusick was added to the Athletics’ 40-man roster during the offseason after compiling an underwhelming 4.66 ERA, 1.54 WHIP and 66/40 K/BB ratio across 63 2/3 innings (30 appearances, nine starts) last year in the upper minors. The 25-year-old former first-round pick could wind up making it to the big leagues later this year, most likely as a reliever.

Amaya is presumably day-to-day following an early exit from Monday’s Cactus League contest. The 26-year-old infielder, who bounced around between several organizations on waivers during the offseason, went 0-for-1 with a strikeout. He figures to open the year in a bench role, if he makes Chicago’s Opening Day roster.

Lowe has homered in back-to-back games and is up to .318/.385/.591 in 26 plate appearances for the spring. A homer off Sale could be big for him, as he tries to shake his platoon rep. Of Lowe’s 97 starts last season, just 11 came against left-handers.

Sale retired eight of nine to begin the game, but he then gave up a walk and a homer with two outs in the third. As it turned out, his only remaining out came when Josh Lowe tried to stretch a single into a double to begin the fourth. This wasn’t a Statcast game, but Sale’s stuff seemed fine. The runs were the first he’s allowed in three spring starts.

The double was the prototypical “nice piece of hitting,” as the left-handed batter seemingly was trying to place a grounder down the third base line with the fielder shifted towards shortstop. Baldwin is 7-for-19 with six walks and just one strikeout this spring. He’d be awfully interesting if the Braves weren’t probably getting Sean Murphy back at some point during April.

Bolton was the lone player from Seattle’s 40-man roster exiting big-league camp in the latest round of cuts. Arroyo is one of the Mariners’ top prospects and should reach Double-A at some point in the next few months. Díaz and Medina figure to make it to Seattle at some point as emergency stopgap options.

Brosseau and Brooks were in camp this spring as non-roster invitees fighting for bench roles. They’ll head to Triple-A El Paso as extra organizational depth to open the year.

The 109.5-mph homer was Bichette’s lone hit, but his other two at-bats also produced hard-hit balls. The Jays’ apparent leadoff man is batting .345/.367/.621 through 30 plate appearances.

He struck out four, and the homer against him was just a high fly that got up in the wind. Gausman’s velocity was again quite good today, with his fastball and splitter both checking in one mph harder than last year. His slider is up even more, which seems to be a conscious decision on his part. We still don’t feel great about where his splitter is at after the pitch betrayed him last year, but his stock has climbed some since the beginning of the spring.