With the signing of Jason Marquis during last week, the Twins roster for the 2012 season is close to being finalized. There is a small amount of room in the payroll to possibly add a bullpen arm but only time will tell if the Twins move in this direction. The pieces of the line-up are [...]
The Twins did a little housecleaning to their 40-man roster on Monday with midnight being the deadline for non-tendering players. The players who were arbitration eligible included Alexi Casilla, Francisco Liriano, Jose Mijares, and Glen Perkins. Kevin Slowey would have also been included in the group if he had not been traded to the Rockies [...]
The Twins made the signing of Jamey Carroll official on Wednesday and now the team should be set at the shortstop position for 2012. The team will enter Spring Training next year with Carroll penciled in as the Opening Day shortstop and the number two hitter in the batting order. There is always a possibility that those [...]
Twins sign Carroll for SS The Twins first player move of the offseason came over the weekend as the team made a 2-year, $7 million investment in Jamey Carroll to be the starting shortstop for the Twins in 2012. He will be 38-years old before the start of next season and he has never really [...]
The guys over at TwinsCentric have put together another fantastic Offseason GM Handbook with over 130 pages of great content on the moves the team could make in the coming months. If you enjoy reading about the Twins and you are interested in what the team could look like for next year, I suggest you [...]
Fans of the Twins have seen numerous Twins alumni find success in the cool of the October Postseason. Delmon Young was a home run hitting machine for the Tigers before their elimination over the weekend. Carlos Gomez has played a defensive role with the Brewers and provided a spark off of the bench. Kyle Lohse [...]
In the Metrodome years under Tom Kelly and Ron Gardenhire, the Twins focused on having a good fielding team behind a pitcher that could pound the strike zone. The Twins had some great defenders in those years that prided themselves on making the routine plays and the extraordinary plays. Fielding the baseball has been a [...]
The Twins will be without second baseman Alexi Casilla for a bit. Casilla’s hamstring injury from Wednesday’s game against the Rangers will knock him out for at least a week and is headed back to the Twin Cities, according to LaVelle E. Neal III of the Star Tribune. According to Twins trainer Rick McWane via Rhett Bollinger [...]
The Twins suffered through most of the first half of the season without their $23 million man. The offensive woes of the team were punctuated by the absence of the team’s biggest superstar. Joe Mauer has now returned to the middle of the line-up for the Twins and he has provided an offensive spark for [...]
Super utility man Trevor Plouffe has dominated International League pitching at Triple-A Rochester, and is ready to for Major Leagues, regardless of position. Plouffe’s short stint for the Twins earlier in the season was marred by a sub-par defense, particularly with his throwing. He was consequently sent down to Rochester, where he began to tear it up offensively, with [...]
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