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Series Preview: Philadelphia Phillies at Minnesota Twins, June 12-14

It’s all well and good to win series against pitiful teams like the Athletics, Royals, and Cubs. The recent winning streak faces a tougher test this week as the Twins (24-35) host the Philadelphia…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

Thursday Links – Baseball Boyfriend Edition

The most discouraging news this past week  was not even the Twins’ inability to sign a starting pitcher to replace Nick Blackburn.  It was the release of the Baseball Boyfriend app, a mini-fantasy…Read More

Reviving the Mauer/Ramos Platoon Idea

Remember how excited we all were when Wilson Ramos came up to the big leagues? Ramos banged out seven hits in his first two games, and he immediately won thousands of fans around Twins Territory. Even…Read More

Monday Morning Quarterback (Shortstop Edition)

After watching the Vikings on television yesterday it was fairly obvious that those guys are just not cut out to play in the National Football League.  I am not even sure that team could beat the BCS…Read More

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Phillies Going After Cuddyer

If this weekend’s rumor mill is to be believed, the Philadelphia Phillies really want to sign Michael…Read More

Jim Thome Signs with Phillies

Free agency is only two days old, but we’ve already had one future Hall of Famer change teams.…Read More

Best Twins Free Agents Ever

Happy first official day of Free Agency! Believe it or not, the Twins have been pretty successful in…Read More

“I Can’t Do It, Captain! I Don’t Have the Power!”

If you’ve ever watched 1960s era American television, you probably recognized the title as the…Read More

Friday Links

It is hard to believe that the 2011 season is over for the Minnesota Twins.  On April 13th the entire…Read More

About Those Injuries…

How much of the disaster that was 2011 can be blamed on injuries? Take a look at the list below and decide…Read More

The Winning Teams: 2010

This is the final installment of a series examining every Twins team that has made the playoffs. Whether…Read More

The Winning Teams: 2008

  This is part ten in a series examining every Twins team that has made the playoffs. Whether the…Read More

Worst Series Ever?

The Twins have fielded a lot of bad teams in their fifty years of existence. And they’ve played some…Read More

Starting Rotation Options

The Twins’ bullpen was the biggest scapegoat of their poor start, but since the All Star Break,…Read More

Thome and A-Rod: Two Peas from a Completely Different Pod

The New York Yankees strolled into town Friday night to begin a four game series with the Twins. While…Read More

Delmon Young Traded to Tigers, Burns Bright vs. Twins

Jim Thome‘s 600th career home run upstaged all other baseball news last night, but Thome wasn’t…Read More

600!

Jim Thome stepped up to bat in the 7th inning Monday night with the Twins clinging to a 6-5 lead againt…Read More

Flat-Lining

To be clear, I haven’t given up on this team…yet. That said, with every loss the road gets…Read More

Friday Links

  I should not go to Las Vegas.  The past week is proof of that.  Last week I took a look at the…Read More