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
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

