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Series Preview: Twins at Rays, April 20-22

The Yankee series, and all the irrational excitement, happiness, and disappointment it entailed, is over. Now the Twins move on to an equally challenging opponent, the Tampa Bay Rays. The series starts…Read More

A Tale of Two Twins

For the Minnesota Twins, Charles Dickens could sum up their last two weeks easily. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” Dickens wrote that to open “A Tale of Two Cities”, and…Read More

Iambic PenTwinmeter

I was chatting briefly with Mr. Wally Fish this afternoon regarding his status on G-Chat.  It was a poem about Liriano’s less than stellar performance yesterday evening. “Liriano’s pitching…Read More

The Future is Coming

The season is still very young, and for the Minnesota Twins and the Tampa Bay Rays, the newness of the 2011 season helps to dissipate high levels of panic as each team was off to a sluggish start.  Since…Read More

2011 Series Preview: Rays vs Twins (4/26-4/28)

The Twins are starting to pick things up and have quietly won 5 of 7. With the scheduled off day today the team has some extra time to get healthy, purge the flu bug from their systems and prepare for…Read More

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Looking Back and Looking Ahead

All I am saying is that this is not a bad team.  I know, a week ago, when the Twins were in the midst…Read More

Sigh No More

With all due respect to Mumford & Sons, Twins fans can “sigh no more”. Really, how can…Read More

2011 Series Preview: Twins vs Rays (4/14-4/17)

Never in the history of baseball has the phrase “pitch to contact” kicked off such a firestorm…Read More

Ripples on the Pond: Nishioka, Delaney and BR Sponsorship

In case you need another reason to love Tsuyoshi Nishioka, I present you with one of his latest quotes: “If…Read More

44-38: Still Technically in First Place

Fangraphs Yep, the Tigers also lost, so at least the Twins remain tied for first place. That’s…Read More

44-37: Sabotage

Fangraphs Other than the eighth inning, this game wasn’t all bad. In fact, it was pretty good.…Read More

44-36: The End is Nigh

Fangraphs The Twins won, Scott Baker out-dueled David Price, Danny Valencia came through with some clutch…Read More

43-36: The Bullpen (and Alfonso Marquez) Blow it

Fangraphs (click on image for larger view) I had to work last night and didn’t get to see any of…Read More

Twins-Rays Series Preview

*Sigh* It’s been over two years since the worst trade ever, and even though it doesn’t look…Read More

On Jason Bartlett, erm, I Mean Delmon Young

In the grand tradition of Nick Punto Day, we now have Delmon Young Day. Fetch has already weighed in…Read More