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Top Five Positions of Concern

  The Twins have a lot of work to do this offseason after this disastrous season. Nearly every position on the field has questions, and some of them are complete black holes. Hopefully, the team’s…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, not trying, or not good enough to win, but any way you slice it, the Twins are in the middle of a 9…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 three hits, including the coup de grace: a two run homer off Cleveland rookie Josh Judy. Parmelee’s…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 first place. They have been officially eliminated from the playoffs. They are 2 games behind the Kansas…Read More

Night of the New Twins

Welcome to Minnesota, Liam Hendriks, Joe Benson, and Chris Parmelee. The Twins had triplets on Tuesday night. Though the game against Chicago was a snoozefest, as the Twins lost 3-0 and failed to score…Read More

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More on the Young Trade

Lester Oliveros is the Player to be Named Later in the Delmon Young trade. The 23 year old right handed…Read More

How the Twins Can Give up on 2011 and Focus on the Future

Yesterday, I posted my plan for how the Twins can save their 2011 season. I strongly believe that there…Read More

Farm Fishing: April 14th

Record for the Day: 2-3 / Record for the Year: 18-14 Rochester Red Wings (AAA): Split their doubleheader…Read More

Twins Trim 14 from Camp

Today the Minnesota Twins made their first moves of Spring Training as they work toward finalizing the…Read More

The Pond Plays a Little Pepper

Friend, colleague and BBA Founder Daniel Shoptaw recently extended me an invitation to participate in…Read More

A Quartet of Twins on Baseball America’s Top-100

Baseball America’s long-awaited and much anticipated Top-100 prospect list was unveiled this morning.…Read More

Everybody Gets Tendered A Contract (Even You, J.J.)

Via Joe C.: The Twins had no non-tenders. All nine of their arbitration players were tendered contracts.…Read More

Top 15 Prospects: #11

Up until the start of the season, we here at Twinkie Talk will be counting down our top 15 prospects.…Read More