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Pair of Minnesota Twins Players Make Up Top of This Recent Leaderboard

Minnesota Twins youngster Edouard Julien and catcher Ryan Jeffers have been incredibly hot of late.

Brady Farkas

Pair of Minnesota Twins Players Make Up Top of This Recent Leaderboard
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The Minnesota Twins open up a three-game series with the Seattle Mariners on Monday night in Minneapolis.

If you feel like you just saw this matchup, it's because you did. The two teams split a four-game series last week in Seattle and will run it back just days later.

A pair of Twins players come in as two of the hottest players in baseball:

Freddie Freeman has an OBP of .568 (44 PA's) over the last 14 days, best in MLB. 

2. Edouard Julien - .556 

3. Triston Casas - .548 

4. Keibert Ruiz - .536 

5. Ryan Jeffers - .522

Julien destroyed the Mariners over that four-game set so he'll look to keep it going today.

-Julien is hitting .307 for the season over two different tours of action with the big league club. He's got nine home runs and 16 RBI to go along with a .388 on-base percentage. 

-The 26-year-old Jeffers is in his fourth season with the Twins. He's hitting .272 this season with five homers and 15 RBI. Lifetime, he's a .223 hitter with 29 homers.

As for the others on the list:

-The 22-year-old Ruiz is hitting .244 this season with 11 homers and 37 RBI for the Nationals. One of the key pieces of the Nationals post-World Series title rebuild, he's primed for a big future.

-Casas has rebounded from a brutal start and is now hitting .247 this year with 14 homers and 36 RBI. He's posted a .351 on-base percentage for a Red Sox team that is 2.0 games back of the wild card.

-And Freeman, Mr. Consistency, is having another great year. tThe perennial All-Star is hitting .331 with 20 homers and 70 RBI.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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