I'm not sitting here begging for anything at all.' But when you look big picture, I think we have a very good team. 'Sometimes there are moves and you always have to be open to pretty much everything. 'It's always a legit question right before the trade deadline,' Baldelli said. You're hoping as the game goes on that you adjust to it,' Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said.

'You could tell early that his mix of different shapes and different speeds was tough. Yet aside from Matt Wallner's long home run over the Royals bullpen in the third inning and Byron Buxton's sixth-inning double, no Twins batter ever reached second base. Yarbrough, who gave up seven runs in his only previous start against the Twins, never threw a pitch faster than 88 miles per hour in his seven innings Sunday, and his changeup sauntered across the plate at 72. The loss was the Twins' fifth in a row, cutting their AL Central lead to just a half-game over the Guardians, and marked last-place Kansas City's first three-game winning streak of the year. Two days before the MLB trade deadline, the Twins put their weakness against lefthanded pitching on display for potential trade partners one last time, going down meekly against soft-tossing Royals starter Ryan Yarbrough and two relievers and losing 2-1 to Kansas City at Kauffman Stadium. The Twins could have hired planes to fly over major league stadiums Sunday with banners reading 'Trade Us A Righthanded Hitter.' But this was probably just as effective.

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