After the long holiday weekend, the news has been slow-moving in regards to the Twins. This was not unexpected as the organization usually takes some time off during the holiday season. The baseball world has continued to swirl as the beginning of the new year is fast approaching. By turning of the calendar to the [...]
In a season marked with many negative headlines around the Twins, it is hard to pick out the best moments from the past 12 months. The team struggled through so many up-and-down moments and there were multiple story lines that will be remembered in the annals of Twins lore. The theme for the 2011 version [...]
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 [...]
On Tuesday afternoon, the Twins completed a move that many thought would be accomplished before the trading deadline in July. Kevin Slowey was traded to the Rockies for a player to be named later. The Denver Post threw out the name of Class A right-hander Parker Frazier as a possible candidate for the player to be [...]
The Winter Meetings mark a time when the focus of the fans and the organization can be on the roster for the upcoming season. In recent years, the Twins have made some important moves and set the ground work for other moves that would shape the players wearing their uniform in the next season. The [...]
With the recent news that Joe Nathan has signed a free agent contract with the Texas Rangers, the Twins are now trying to sort out who will be the team’s closer for the 2012 campaign. In yesterday’s post, I wrote briefly about the Twins considering Jonathan Broxton for a late inning role with the team. If the [...]
The shake up with the Twins front office means that the plan for creating next season’s roster has changed a lot in the last week. Terry Ryan is going to find the best valued players to fit in to the holes the Twins have at different spots on the roster. There are a variety of [...]
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 [...]
It seems like the Twins continue to hit new levels of futility as the season winds to a close. At the end of the season, there are going to be plenty of negatives to look at from all parts of the year. The injuries piled up, the bullpen was unproven, the middle infield was a [...]
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