MINNEAPOLIS — OK, let’s get one thing out of the way right at the top: The Mets throttled the Twins, 14-4, Wednesday afternoon, and a lot of good things happened for the Mets, there was a lot of fun stuff for them to talk about and laugh about. It’s a second-straight road series win after going almost 3 ½ months without one.
In the minutes after the Mets shook hands and left the Target Field turf after handing the first-place Twins their first three-game losing streak of the year, the computers at FanGraphs started whirring and spit out this number: 8.