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Thursday Links – Groundhog Edition

Happy Groundhog Day!  Pitchers and catchers report to Ft. Myers in just 16 days, no groundhog, or his shadow, can change that.  Last weekend was a great time to be a Twins fan, especially if you had…Read More

Minor League Signings: Burroughs, Walters, Rivera. Also, Punto News.

The Twins made a few minor league signings today: Sean Burroughs, P.J. Walters, and Rene Rivera. Burroughs is the most interesting of the three. He was drafted 9th overall by the Padres in 1998 (just three…Read More

Thursday Links

Thanks for tuning in to another edition of the Thursday Links.  Not a lot happened this week in terms of actual Twins news.   Most of the front office executives were surely sleeping off a Turkey hangover…Read More

Former Twins with World Series Rings

Sometime next spring, Nick Punto and Kyle Lohse will receive World Series rings. If there were any justice in this world, they would each have a double handful of them from when they played on the Twins.…Read More

Kyle Lohse and Little Nicky Punto Take on the Rangers

  It’s official: Kyle Lohse, Nick Punto, and 23 other players that nobody cares about will represent the National League and the City of Saint Louis in the World Series. The only thing standing…Read More

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The Winning Teams: 2009

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

Departed Twins: Where Are They Now? (Part 2)

So many things have contributed to this collapse that it’s hard to recount all of them. For me,…Read More

The Winning Teams: 2006

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

2010 Twins Debuts: Luke Hughes

The Super Bowl is finally over and the NFL season has thankfully come to a close. Don’t get me…Read More

The Free Agent Class

Here is a quick look at the Twins’ impending free agents, and whether or not any of them are worth…Read More

Orlando Hudson

Orlando Hudson was the Twins’ other major free agent signing of the offseason (Jim Thome was…Read More

Establishing Trade Value Part 2: Position Players

In the second part of my three-part series on trade value, I am going to assess the position players,…Read More

Free Agency Watch

The Twins are going to have some tough decisions to make when the season is over, as seven of the…Read More

40-29: Well Look at That, A Series Win

(via Fangraphs) Who would have thought, after the shellackings the Twins suffered the past couple of…Read More

39-29: In Which I am Forced to Re-Write the Entire Recap

(via Fangraphs) I had this thing written before the sixth inning. So much for that. For the second…Read More

38-29: Helpless

(I get this stuff from Fangraphs so you don’t have to) I would like to blame Michael Cuddyer playing…Read More

Third Base is Still a Problem, Though

In my previous post, I noted that the Twins don’t really have to add pitching at the trade deadline.…Read More

Delmon Young Day: Less Divisive Than Nick Punto Day

I suspect most people will have a negative view of Delmon Young, citing the fact that he looks terrible…Read More

Nick Punto Day

Sigh. Today is Nick Punto day, the day where Andrew Kneeland of TwinsTarget said all Twins bloggers should…Read More

Twins Should Grab The Wang

ESPN.com is reporting that the Yankees may be considering non-tendering Chien Ming Wang. Non-tendering…Read More