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2012 Projections – Carl Pavano

Ron Gardenhire announced last week that Carl Pavano was going to be the Twins’ 2012 Opening Day Starter.  While Pavano has certainly earned the right to be the Opening Day Starter, the wiley old…Read More

Thursday Links

The big news from the past week was Prince Fielder signing with the Detroit Tigers (Also, this video which is a serious Video of the Week candidate).  While the Tigers were already the AL Central favorite…Read More

Looking Forward to Spring Training

Hard to believe that there are still 48 long winter days until Twins pitchers and catchers report to sunny Ft. Meyers for Spring Training on February 18, 2012.  The only other team reporting that early…Read More

Should the Twins Trade Scott Baker?

Last week, the Padres traded Mat Latos to the Reds. A couple days ago, Gio Gonzalez went to the Nationals. In both cases, teams were willing to part with four talented players for a pitcher who is very…Read More

Twins Starting Rotation: Wait ’til Next Year.

I’ve been mostly unimpressed with the pitching moves the Twins have made so far this offseason. But I really shouldn’t criticize the team so harshly, because the pitching market is pretty weak…Read More

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Twins sign Jason Marquis

According to FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal the Twins have reached an agreement with free agent RHP…Read More

Negative Nancy (Part 2)

I’ve been trying to be more positive about the 2012 Twins.  It is not always easy, especially…Read More

Twins Rebuild in Progress?

Amid the excitement caused by Terry Ryan’s return, it was easy to overlook one potentially alarming…Read More

Why do the Pitchers Keep Getting Injured?

    When the Twins traded mega-ace Johan Santana after the 2007 season, they had good reason…Read More

2011 Team Awards

It was quite a year for the Minnesota Twins.  Despite leaving Spring Training with a fully healthy squad,…Read More

Top 11 of ’11, Part I

2011 was a disaster, but it wasn’t a complete disaster. There were actually a few bright spots…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

A Royal Disappointment

The Twins will end their 2011 campaign on Wednesday against the Kansas City Royals, and they will probably…Read More

Rotation Options: In-House Candidates

Any well-informed fan could probably write a book about the reasons for the Twins 2011 collapse. That…Read More

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

The Winning Teams: 2008

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

Starting Rotation Options

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

It hasn’t been quite a week since the last edition of the Friday Links, which went out a few days…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