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Minnesota Twins Spring Training Preview: Second Base

Over the course of the next few weeks, I’ll be providing a rundown on who the Twins will have in Spring Training camp at each position, including projected starters and backups, as well as long shots…Read More

Twins Position Battle: Outfield

Every position on the field is a battle, and we’ve been doing our best to tell you about all of them. Since there are three positions in the outfield, we have three battles there – basically an entire…Read More

2012 Projections – Ryan Doumit

The Pittsburgh Pirate’s recent contract extension with Andrew McCutchen demonstrates their commitment to turning their baseball club around.  That they were willing to let Ryan Doumit leave town,…Read More

2011 Prospect Challenge

Last year my brother Eric (@ERolfPleiss) and I made a trip down to Ft. Myers to see the Twins play a couple games and get our eyes on some of the up and coming stars of the organization. A couple weeks…Read More

Which Non-Roster Invitees will help the Twins?

If you’ve read Puckett’s Pond in the last month, you already know that there is a small army’s worth of non-roster invitees joining the team in Spring Training this year. There are 25…Read More

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Brian Dinkelman: Twins Non-Roster Invitee

Brian Dinkelman hit a lot of singles last year. The Twins called him up to the Majors briefly in June,…Read More

Sunday Morning Lineups

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are rested and ready for another exciting weekend of…Read More

What to Watch For: The Final 10 Games

Last week I thought that it was important for the Twins to win games. Either they’re not listening,…Read More

Chris Parmelee Hits First MLB Home Run

Rookie first baseman Chris Parmelee played the best game of his young career Saturday afternoon. He recorded…Read More

Why Winning Games Still Matters or Who Cares?

The Minnesota Twins are 59-87, they’ve lost 8 of their last 10 games are currently 26 games out of…Read More

The Friday Links

What week it has been for the Minnesota Twins!  Since losing last Friday evening to the Texas Rangers…Read More

Talking Trades, Talking Futures

I have never been one of those people that knows a lot about baseball, the depth charts of other Major…Read More

Non-Roster Invitees

Over on Call to the Pen, Nathaniel Stoltz has been breaking down the Non-Roster Invitees for all 30 major…Read More