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This Week in Twins: August 20-26

Let’s be glad last week is over. Even judging by the standards of the worst team in the American League this one was a stinker. With Denard Span and Ben Revere on the shelf most of the week, the…Read More

Twins Deadline Rumors: Span And Burton

With Shane Victorino now a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Cincinnati Reds have shifted their focus to other lead-off hitters. This includes talks with the Twins about Denard Span, according to…Read More

Minnesota Twins 2012 Midterm Report Card

It’s the All Star Break, which means the 2012 season is more than halfway done. We’re far enough along that nobody can complain about small sample sizes anymore. So how good or bad are the…Read More

The Royal Twin: Predicting Minnesota’s All-Star

In 2006, the Kansas City Royals were represented by former Twin Mark Redman in the annual All-Star game. The team went on to finish the season with 100 losses and without a contributor who deserved being…Read More

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winning streak!

Suddenly the Twins are winning. If you stopped watching in disgust four days ago, after they dropped to a disgusting 10-26, you have missed some surprisingly competent and exciting baseball. Four road…Read More

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Series Preview: Twins at Rays, April 20-22

The Yankee series, and all the irrational excitement, happiness, and disappointment it entailed, is over.…Read More

This Week in Twins: April 9-15

Well, that was ugly, wasn’t it? There were only three official games last week, but we’ve…Read More

Twins toss another near no-hitter

If five pitchers combine to throw a no-hitter in the forest, but nobody sees or hears it, did it really…Read More

Who is winning the bullpen battle?

Another day, another four relief pitchers on the mound. Even with about three dozen pitchers in Fort…Read More

This Week in Twins: March 12-18

  Last week was up and down for our favorite team.  It began with a string of disappointments…Read More

The Twins Bullpen Might Be Just Fine

Some people are optimistic about the Twins’ chances to rebound from a 99 loss season, while others…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…Read More

Jared Burton: Twins Non-Roster Invitee

The first interesting factoid about Jared Burton: his real first name is Levi, and Jared is his middle…Read More