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Twins at Tigers, lineups, Wednesday, May 16

Several Tigers have had a couple of looks at Twins starter Nick Blackburn. With 31 plate appearances, Miguel Cabrera's 1.277 OPS against him leads the team. Alex Avila has 13 plate appearances and a 1.189 OPS to show for them. Austin Jackson also has an OPS of better than 1.000, having faced Blackburn 18 times.

On the other side of things, not a lot of current Twins have tallied a lot of looks at Tigers starter Rick Porcello. Denard Span has the most looks, with 25 plate appearances but a .764 OPS. Joe Mauer has just .498 OPS in 19 PA.

Update: Span was a late scratch.

Baseball-Reference.com preview

Detroit Tigers

Austin Jackson CF (RH)
Andy Dirks LF (LH)
Miguel Cabrera 3B (RH)
Prince Fielder 1B, (LH)
Delmon Young DH (RH)
Alex Avila C (LH)
Ryan Raburn 2B (RH)
Brennan Boesch RF (LH)
Ramon Santiago SS (S)

SP: Rick Porcello (RH)

Twins lineup

Denard Span CF (LH)

Erik Komatsu CF (LH)

Brian Dozier SS (RH)
Joe Mauer DH (LH)
Josh Willingham LF (RH)
Justin Morneau 1B (LH)
Ryan Doumit C (S)
Trevor Plouffe RF (RH)
Alexi Casilla 2B (S)
Jamey Carroll 3B (RH)