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More Cuts for the Twins

The roster keeps shrinking, with four more cuts Tuesday. Joe Benson, Jeff Manship, Rene Rivera, and Pedro Florimon all got pink slips this morning, bringing the total down to 34. Each of these players…Read More

Position Battle: Catcher

Baseball, like all sports, is about conflict. We watch baseball to see a pitcher compete with a batter as one team competes with another. Conflict infuses every aspect of the game. Whether it’s appropriate…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

Rene Rivera: Twins Non-Roster Invitee

There seems to have been some sort of contagious disease among Twins catchers last year, and I’m not talking about Bilateral Leg Weakness. Four men squatted behind the plate at Target Field –…Read More

The Twins and OBP

The Twins were bad at a lot of things last year, but one underachievement really stands out. The team was 13th in the American League in on-base percentage with a laughable .306 mark. Only the Seattle…Read More

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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…Read More

Top Five Positions of Concern

  The Twins have a lot of work to do this offseason after this disastrous season. Nearly every position…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

Minnesota Twins 2011 Midterm Report Card

 The Twins have reached the All Star Break, baseball’s traditional midpoint. I’d like to…Read More

Out of the Cellar

 Francisco Liriano threw seven stolid innings and the Minnesota Twins strung together key hits from…Read More

Friday Hits!

When I initially sat down to being this post I could not , off the top of my head, recall any really…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

The Kubel Conundrum

It is not always fun to watch your favorite team lose.  This is especially true when your favorite team…Read More