It’s usually tough being traded midseason, and even more tough when you’re a pitcher that has to face the old team only a week after the trade.

That was the situation Chris Paddack was in after the Twins sent him to Detroit on July 28, the first of nine trades that sent 10 players to parts east, west and south before the July 31 trade deadline.

Only seven days after the Twins sent Paddack and right-hander Randy Dobnak to Detroit for Class A catching prospect Enrique Jimenez, the in-jokes were still fresh.

“But you have to lock in,” Paddack said from Target Field’s visiting clubhouse on Friday. “They gave me a little taste of my own blood, you know. They put up four runs, and I only had one swing-and-miss, to Royce (Lewis), and it came in the fourth inning.”

The Twins touched Paddack fo

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