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No Olympics Will Ruin Worldwide Baseball

In August, the International Olympic Committee <a href=" ">recommended squash and golf be added to the 2016 Olympic program</a>, effe...
Fetch|Sep 10, 2009

Shameless Self Promotion

The great folks here at Fansided have let me write another blog. With winter drawing near, so is hockey season, and more importantly so is college hockey s...
Fetch|Sep 9, 2009

Did I Catch A Niner In There? Were You Calling From A Walkie-Talkie?

Since today is September 9th, 2009, aka 09/09/09, I figured the theme of the day would be #9. Here are the players in Twins history who wore #9, and their ...
Fetch|Sep 9, 2009

Perkins’s Grievance

According to <a href=" ">MLBTR</a> and the Star-Tribune's <a href=" ">Joe Christensen</a>, Twins lefty Glen Per...
Fetch|Sep 8, 2009

No Quiero Danny Valencia

<!-- image removed -->For the entire 2009 season, Twins fans have viewed Danny Valencia the savior at third base. I just don't see it. His defense is...
Fetch|Sep 4, 2009

40 Innings

<!-- image removed -->Over the course of the last 5 or so years since I first read Moneyball, I have learned a lot of valuable things about the game ...
Fetch|Sep 2, 2009

Manny Being Manny

<strong>Jeff Manship </strong>made his starting debut last night, going 5 innings, giving up 1 ER (a homer to Alexi Ramirez) while walking two ...
Fetch|Sep 2, 2009

Jon Rauch

2 games pitched as a Twin, two wins. Just sayin. Also, if Jose Morales wants to marry me, that's just fine....
Fetch|Sep 1, 2009

Two Comparisons

Player A: 4.50 FIP, 5.14 K/9, 2.33 BB/9, 37.3% GB rate, 9.7% HR/FB Player B: 4.07 FIP, 6.43 K/9, 1.72 BB/9, 45.5% GB rate, 11.2% HR/FB Player A was traded ...
Fetch|Sep 1, 2009

On Nick Blackburn

Nick Blackburn has had a terrible second half. He hasn't gotten a ton of help with <a href=" ">some of the defenses </a>that Ron Gard...
Fetch|Sep 1, 2009

Analyzing Our Two New Arms

<!-- image removed -->A couple new pitchers made their Twins debuts over the weekend. Ron Mahay, a lefty acquired from the Royals, debuted on Saturda...
Fetch|Aug 31, 2009

Twins Harden Up For Starting Pitching

<!-- image removed -->Haha, fantastic pun I know. <a href=" ">ESPN Chicago is reporting</a> that the Cubs have placed RHP Rich ...
Fetch|Aug 27, 2009

Two Freebies

As we hit the home stretch, the Twins are in the position to grab two players for free who can help them, one for the rest of this year, one for the future...
Fetch|Aug 27, 2009

Bert Belongs

I have writer's block (once again) so I'm going to the well with the topic I usually bring up when such a situation arises: Put Bert Blyleven in the Hall o...
Fetch|Aug 26, 2009

If The Twins Players Were EPL Teams

Recently I have become a huge soccer fan, specifically of the English Premier League. Ever since Chelsea goalie Petr Cech's horrific injury in 2006 I have ...
Fetch|Aug 24, 2009

Two Of My Favorite Non Twins Help Keep Twins In The Race

The Twins are still 4.5 games back of the Tigers, but the weekend sweep of the Royals combined with the good weekend by the A's has breathed new life into ...
Fetch|Aug 23, 2009

Is Joe Mauer The AL MVP?

<!-- image removed -->Over at one of my favorite sports blogs,<a href=" "> Souvenir City</a>, an argument was posted for Joe Ma...
Fetch|Aug 19, 2009

Gibson Signs

<!-- image removed -->Obviously I'm way late on this because I was out of town without internet access, but the Twins signed their 1st round pick Kyl...
Fetch|Aug 18, 2009

Programming Note

I neglected to mention this, but I will be without internet access until Tuesday at the earliest. Sorry for any inconveniences but hey it's the weekend, go...
Fetch|Aug 14, 2009

Was Liriano’s Last Start A Mirage?

<!-- image removed -->Last night Francisco Liriano threw 7 innings of 1 run ball. He gave up just 3 hits, walked 1 and struck out 8. It was a great o...
Fetch|Aug 13, 2009
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