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Griffin Jax
Minnesota Twins
Pitcher
2024 Projected Value: $0
2024 Actual Value: $13 Difference: $13
Based on 10-team AL-only league

Player Stats Daily Log

Year	W	L	Sv	Hold	IP	H	BB	SO	ER	ERA	WHIP	Rate
2024 proj	3	4	2	17	70.0	61	21	71	32	4.11	1.171	14.9
2024	5	5	10	24	71.0	47	15	95	16	2.03	0.873	62.8
2023	6	10	4	23	65.3	57	19	68	27	3.72	1.163	27.7
2022	7	4	1	18	72.3	56	20	78	27	3.36	1.051	32.0
2021	4	5	0	0	82.0	82	29	65	58	6.37	1.354	-18.5

Player News

Date	News
9/18/24	Twins drop another heartbreaker, walked off by Guardians. Griffin Jax and Cole Sands, two of the Twins' top three bullpen arms, watched from hundreds of feet away in center field as the team tried to piece together the final few innings on Wednesday night. It was clear, even before Wednesday's game started, that if the Twins were going to win, they would need some relievers to come through in different roles than they're used to handling. Varland and Duran got through their innings. Source: https://www.twincities.com/2024/09/18/twins-drop-a...
6/25/24	Fading Oakland A's at the midway point: What to expect in the second half. The concourses were buzzing Sunday, with Athletics fans eagerly putting on their giveaway jerseys commemorating a World Series championship 50 years ago against the Los Angeles Dodgers. A handful of the 1974 A's were saluted, then the current version struck out 16 times against Pablo Torres and Griffin Jax in a 3-0 loss to the Minnesota Twins. Source: https://www.marinij.com/2024/06/25/fading-athletic...
4/19/24	Jhoan Duran moves closer to return to Twins. The beginning of the Twins’ season hasn’t gone according to plan. But the bullpen, despite missing three critical arms to begin the season, has been a bright spot. Twins’ relievers had a collective 2.71 earned-run average entering Friday night, which was fifth in the major leagues. Griffin Jax and Brock Stewart have slid into the highest leverage roles, and Steven Okert has seen some ... Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/jhoan-duran-moves-closer-...
4/18/24	Playing well on the road, Tigers out to extend Twins' woes. The Twins — who are 1-4 at home — will look to snap a four-game losing streak, which includes a three-game sweep against the Baltimore Orioles. Minnesota was outscored 22-9 by the Orioles, including a 4-2 loss on a walk-off homer in Wednesday's series finale. Twins right-hander Griffin Jax said he and his teammates are trying to find their footing after a rough start. "There's a lot of tension and pressure that everybody's put on themselves," Jax said. Source: https://deadspin.com/playing-well-on-the-road-tige...
4/18/24	Orioles sweep Twins, extending Minnesota losing streak to four games. There's the kind of pain and strain that every member of the Twins' traveling party is feeling right now, the emptiness of losing seemingly no matter what you do. "There's a lot of tension and pressure that everybody's put on themselves," reliever Griffin Jax said Wednesday in the Twins' silent clubhouse. Then there's the type of torment that Jax himself was feeling at that moment — the sting, even grief, of being responsible for a game-deciding mistake. Jax left a ninth-inning changeup in the middle of the plate, and Cedric Mullins launched it onto the right-field plaza, completing the Baltimore Orioles' three-game sweep in the cruelest way possible: A walk-off 4-2 victory. Source: https://www.startribune.com/twins-lose-orioles-swe...
4/17/24	Twins swept by Orioles on walk-off home run. BALTIMORE – There's the kind of pain and strain that every member of the Twins' traveling party is feeling right now, the emptiness of losing seemingly no matter what you do. "There's a lot of tension and pressure that everybody's put on themselves right now," reliever Griffin Jax said Wednesday in the Twins' silent clubhouse. "When you look around and there's a lot of key guys missing, a lot ... Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/twins-swept-orioles-walk-...
10/19/23	Twins position breakdown: bullpen. While the Twins' bullpen wasn't quite the strength the starting rotation was in 2023, there was plenty for the Twins to like from the group, particularly late in the season. The bullpen finished the season with a 3.95 earned-run average, 15th in the majors. Griffin Jax went through some bumps in his second season as a reliever — some of it fluky with the underlying metrics showing he pitched better than the results he got — but recovered well and was nearly unhittable in the postseason. Caleb Thielbar, the high-leverage lefty out of the 'pen, missed much of the summer months with oblique strains that required two separate stints on the injured list. Source: https://www.twincities.com/2023/10/19/twins-positi...
9/10/23	Mets 2, Twins 0: Lopez Dazzles, Offense Fizzles. Pablo López did his best to put my personal losing streak to rest, but even his heroics weren't enough. Pablo completely silenced the Mets' bats, going eight innings without New York even putting together a threat, striking out a career-high 14 batters along the way. Things (somewhat worryingly) fell apart in the 8th for Griffin Jax, though, in typical Jax fashion, it was a lot of weak contact still. Francisco Lindor led the inning off with a double, but it had an exit velocity of 76.8 MPH and a launch angle of 56 degrees, a ball that should have been caught by Matt Wallner, regardless of where he was shaded. Source: https://www.twinkietown.com/2023/9/10/23867205/met...
7/02/23	Rare blip by Twins reliever Jhoan Duran leads to series finale loss in Baltimore. One run, a fantastic start from their starting pitcher and scoreless innings from relievers Griffin Jax and Jhoan Duran was a winning recipe for the Twins on Saturday. The Twins tried to go back to that same recipe on Sunday, but this time, well, it didn't quite work. Starter Sonny Gray was fantastic through six innings and Jax did his part, too, but the normally-reliable Duran faltered in the eighth inning, giving up a pair of runs as the Baltimore Orioles took the series finale 2-1. Source: https://www.twincities.com/2023/07/02/rare-blip-by...
6/25/23	Twins rally late, take series from Tigers with extra-inning victory. Since taking a step forward by putting together a three-game winning streak with a 4-1 victory here Friday, the Minnesota Twins were on the verge of taking another two steps back on Sunday. Griffin Jax (4-6) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win. Source: https://www.dl-online.com/sports/pro/twins-rally-l...
6/14/23	Twins-Milwaukee game recap: Carlos Correa extends six-game hitting streak in win over Brewers. The shortstop extended his six-game hitting streak with a two-run triple to right field, giving him 10 RBI in the hitting streak. 98.4 mph on Griffin Jax's fastball when he struck out William Contreras in the ninth inning, his fastest pitch of the season. 4 Consecutive games Edouard Julien has recorded a double and a walk, tying Joe Mauer for the longest such streak in Twins history since 1961. Source: https://www.startribune.com/twins-milwaukee-game-r...
6/11/23	After enduring rough patch, Twins reliever Griffin Jax bounces back. TORONTO — Shortly after watching Griffin Jax suffer his fourth loss in seven appearances last month, Twins manager Rocco Baldelli professed his desire to find the struggling reliever some “softer landing spots” if possible — dropping him into some lower-leverage situations to ease the pressure on him. Problem was, the Twins had been playing very close, tight games at the time and there really ... Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/enduring-rough-patch-twin...
4/22/23	Pablo López shelled by Nationals, and Twins now look like .500 team. The actual attendees in an announced crowd of 23,045 for Saturday's ballgame at Target Field must have been facing a true dilemma as baseball's speed-up rules suffered a rare defeat. The dilemma for fans was to whether there was more pain emanating from their eyes in watching the hometown Twins, or in their bones, from absorbing a 35-degree temperature that felt like 25 (as of 3 p.m.) during the 3-hour, 9-minute ordeal. The Twins had given away a well-pitched game to the lowly Washington Nationals on Friday night, when reliever Griffin Jax and his fielders triggered a winning two-run rally in the eighth — 3-2, visitors. Source: https://video.startribune.com/minnesota-twins-pabl...
4/11/23	Twins beat White Sox 4-3 in 10 innings on throwing error. Twins reliever Griffin Jax (1-1) worked a perfect top of the 10th, standing Chicago's automatic runner at third. Jesse Scholtens (0-1) was on the mound in the 10th for the White Sox, who got the game into extras after Luis Robert Jr. homered on the first pitch he saw from Minnesota closer Jhoan Duran in the ninth. Duran, who blew his first save in three chances this season, responded by striking out the next three batters. The dramatic finish capped a whirlwind day for both teams, which sent key players to the injured list. Source: https://www.thetelegraph.com/sports/article/twins-...
2/27/23	Now settled into relief role, Twins' Griffin Jax tinkers with new pitch. This time last year, Griffin Jax was preparing to come to camp as a starter. When he left to head north, it was with the Triple-A Saints, not the Twins. “When you're in that position, where you don't even know what your role is going to be on the team and you don't even know if you're going to be on the team, it kind of wears at you,” Jax said. With the stress of job uncertainty off of his shoulders, Jax went to work, spending time training at Driveline, the data-driven performance center, abd tinkering with a new pitch: a cutter. Source: https://www.twincities.com/2023/02/27/now-settled-...
2/24/23	Twins pitcher Griffin Jax was once in Air Force. Twins reliever Griffin Jax is the first Air Force Academy graduate to reach the big leagues. Jax was the Mountain West co-Pitcher of the Year as a junior in 2016 at Air Force and was a third-round selection by the Twins in that year's MLB Draft. Following two post-college years of serving, Jax could focus solely on being a professional pitcher. Jax jumped out of an airplane over 200 times while at the Academy. Source: https://kstp.com/minnesota-sports/twins-griffin-ja...
7/05/22	A never-seen triple play, Tony La Russa's ejection and a 4-run 10th doom Chicago White Sox as they drop opener vs. Minnesota Twins. After Abreu doubled against Griffin Jax leading off the seventh, Yoán Moncada’s single tied the game at 2-2, setting up one of the craziest triple plays you’ll ever see. AJ Pollock lined a shot to deep center, which Buxton caught on the run near the wall. Both runners — Moncada and pinch runner Adam Engel — took off on the liner and had no chance of getting back to their bases. Source: https://www.twincities.com/2022/07/05/a-never-seen...
7/04/22	A never-seen triple play, Tony La Russa's ejection and a 4-run 10th doom Chicago White Sox as they drop opener vs. Minnesota Twins. After Abreu doubled against Griffin Jax leading off the seventh, Yoán Moncada’s single tied the game at 2-2, setting up one of the craziest triple plays you’ll ever see. AJ Pollock lined a shot to deep center, which Buxton caught on the run near the wall. Both runners — Moncada and pinch runner Adam Engel — took off on the liner and had no chance of getting back to their bases. Source: https://www.twincities.com/2022/07/04/a-never-seen...
3/15/22	Twins will move Jax, Thorpe to bullpen this season. FORT MYERS, FLA. — The Twins hope they've found the answer to their shortage of reliable bullpen arms. Turns out it was right there all along, in their starting depth. Griffin Jax, who started 14 games for Minnesota last season, and Lewis Thorpe, who started four more, are being moved to the pen this spring, manager Rocco Baldelli said Tuesday, a transformation both pitchers say they embrace. ... Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/twins-move-jax-thorpe-bul...
10/03/21	Jax Sharp As Twins Stop Perez, Shut Out Royals 4-0. Griffin Jax and a trio of relievers combined on a three-hitter and the Minnesota Twins blanked Salvador Perez and the Kansas City Royals 4-0 Saturday night. Source: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/10/03/twins-ro...

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