Ben Noble
Ben Noble is a Minneapolis-based writer, editor and photojournalist who began covering sports for the Star Tribune when Joe Mauer was still finishing up high school. His passions include Twins minor league baseball, pit bulls, pretty ladies and bacon.
A Bronx native, Randy Ruiz was taken by the Mets in the 36th round of the draft out of high school, but instead chose to play baseball at Bellevue University, the previous year’s winner of the NAIA…Read More
Talk to Contact is proud to bring you another episode packed full of Twins talk. This week Cody and Eric discuss the magic of Kevin Correia, Ron Gardenhire’s mismanagement of the pitching staff,…Read More
Episode 35 is a Minor League/Prospect heavy podcast, something we haven’t done for a while. We talk specifically about Miguel Sano, Byron Buxton, Adam Walker, Kyle Gibson, Trevor May, Alex Meyer,…Read More
The Detroit Tigers (13-10) and red-hot Miguel Cabrera will host the Twins for a three game series beginning at 6:08pm tonight.
Cabrera is riding a 12-game hitting streak in which he has knocked in 15…Read More
Part of the Delmon Young-Matt Garza trade, Brendan Harris was a slow-footed Twins infielder who had basically one solid starting season in Tampa before starting 238 games over the next two-plus season…Read More
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The Texas Rangers (14-7) come to town for the Twins first four-game series of the season. The Rangers…Read More
There are currently 40 rounds in the MLB draft held each June. A chosen few will make it to The Show,…Read More
After having their fourth game postponed in eight games, the Twins (8-7) will make up yesterday’s…Read More
Last week, Pedro Florimon finished off a win over the Angels by making a great throw across the diamond…Read More
The Kirby Puckett podcast, featuring Jim Crikket fromwww.knuckleballsblog.com and www.metrosportsreport.com joins…Read More
We ran into a slight audio issue this week, because Eric is bad at recording. There is a slight echo…Read More
The Twins (4-7), losers of five consecutive games face the slow-starting Angels (4-8) in a three game…Read More
Over the weekend, the Twins reinstated Scott Diamond from the DL and placed Wilkin Ramirez on the Paternity…Read More
I was able to put together a combined cycle from Twins prospects at three different levels over the…Read More
In last week’s Twins Porn, I talked about my love for noon baseball games in the middle of the…Read More
Over the course of the season, we’ll take a look at the trades the Twins made last year, both major…Read More
Mets writer Sam Maxwell and company had me on as a guest yesterday to talk Twins on their radio show,…Read More
After being swept by the Royals, the Twins face their first interleague opponent of the season with…Read More
After nearly two weeks of games, the Royals sit atop the AL Central at 6-3, while Cleveland has gotten…Read More
The 4-2 Twins wrap up a six game road trip with three games at Kansas City beginning at 3:10 today.…Read More