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Read more about The Twins' cheapness isn't the problem; it's the symptom

The Twins' cheapness isn't the problem; it's the symptom

On Monday, Bill Parker wrote on this very site about the Twins’ payroll, and about how complaints about the Twins’ relatively low payroll never seem to get past the surface, saying, He demands that we “show our work” and implies, essentially, that the Pohlads opening up their wallets wouldn’t have made enough of a difference to save the Twins from their awful finishes, and thus probably were right to hold onto their money.   On the one hand, I agree and sympathize with that point. After all, no

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• MikeBates
• February 24, 201610 yr

Read more about Local celebrity offers to pay Twins to bring back fan favorite

Local celebrity offers to pay Twins to bring back fan favorite

In the wake of MySpace founder Tom Anderson’s offer to pay for Tim Lincecum to return to the Giants, other celebrities have been similarly urging their hometown nines to make moves, and offering to foot the bill. We, at Twins Daily, have intercepted one such offer:     Seems legit.

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• MikeBates
• January 29, 201610 yr

Read more about A few rays of hope in PECOTA's depressing 2016 Twins projection

A few rays of hope in PECOTA's depressing 2016 Twins projection

If you’re a pessimist like me, you look at the PECOTA projections released by Baseball Prospectus yesterday and you see a confirmation in everything you’ve suspected this offseason. You see a team who has done nothing to build on its surprising run in 2015 and, in turn, has slipped to the bottom of a competitive AL Central division.   You think about a thoroughly mediocre starting rotation led by Ervin Santana, Phil Hughes, and Kyle Gibson and you resign yourself to falling behind early. You thi

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• MikeBates
• February 17, 201610 yr