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The Birds come to visit Hammond Stadium, the first of a two-game set for the Twins. They will jump over the highway to JetBlue Stadium today. Joe Christensen provides us with the day game's lineup: A lineup with Nishioka - who was just lambasted as looking "lost" this spring by Buster Olney - who is playing short today and trying to prove Olney and the evaluators wrong. Keep an eye on that. Also, look to see if Blackburn's adjustments continues to pay off for him.

Twins made some cuts this morning - which Seth Stohs documented here - no of which are surprising. Unfortunately for Steve Pearce, he will not get to square off against his former organization as after straining his calf (on his leg, not on his ranch) he was re-assigned to the minor league camp. Here's today's lineups courtesy of the Star Tribune's Joe Christensen: Today's game can be heard locally on 1500ESPN as well as MLB.TV.

No TV, no radio for today's game. (UPDATE: You can access the Phillies broadcast on the intertubes.) Wheee! Need starting lineups? Joe C has you covered like a jimmy hat: Denard Span and Tsuyoshi Nishioka will return to the lineup today. Their reward? They get to face Roy Halladay. Oh boy!

Twins Lineup versus the Blue Jays: Darin Mastroianni CF Jamey Carroll SS Joe Mauer C Justin Morneau 1B Josh Willingham RF Danny Valencia 3B Trevor Plouffe LF Steve Pearce DH Luke Hughes 2B Francisco Liriano SP

Twins head to Port Charlotte to play the Rays yet again... Here's the lineup with a rare Joe Mauer sighting on the road in spring training! Ben Revere CF Brian Dozier SS Joe Mauer DH Chris Parmelee 1B Ryan Doumit C Trevor Plouffe LF Sean Burroughs 3B Luke Hughes 2B Rene Tosoni RF Pitching: Carl Pavano, Jason Bulger, Scott Diamond, Phil Dumatrait, Liam Hendriks, Glen Perkins, Tyler Robertson, Daryl Thompson Bench: Danny Lehmann, Danny Rams, Chris Herrmann, Aaron Bates, Ray Chang, Mike Hollimon, Oswaldo Arcia, Darin Mastroianni

Twins Lineup vs Yankees: Denard Span - CF Jamey Carroll - SS Joe Mauer - C Jusitn Morneau - 1B Josh Willingham - RF Ryan Doumit - DH Danny Valencia - 3B Ben Revere - LF Alexi Casilla - 2B Pitchers - Nick Blackburn, Brian Duensing, Jeff Manship, Jason Bulger, Carlos Gutierrez, Tyler Robertson, Brendan Wise, Aaron Thompson, Matt Capps Reserves - Drew Butera, Dan Rohlfing, Steve Pearce, Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Trevor Plouffe, Wilkin Ramirez, Matt Carson

After Oswaldo Arcia homered, Chris Parmelee knocked a couple of doubles and Scott Baker really struggled, the Twins and Pirates will play the A game starting at 12:05 CST. Here is the lineup: Denard Span CF Jamey Carroll SS Josh Willingham RF Justin Morneau DH Danny Valencia 3B Trevor Plouffe LF Steve Pearce 1B Rene Rivera C Alexi Casilla 2B Terry Doyle Pitching.

Jason Marquis squares off against his old team. Here's the lineups, courtesy of LaVelle Neal: Oh, LaVelle also offers this wonderful nugget: Eesh...

The Twins are 3-0 against the Rays so far this spring and 0-3 against everyone else. here are the lineups for today's Twins/Rays tilt. Twins Denard Span CF, Trevor Plouffe LF, Joe Mauer C, Justin Morneau 1B, Josh Willingham DH, Danny Valencia 3B, Ryan Doumit RF, Brian Dozier SS, Ray Chang 2B Pitchers include Francisco Liriano, Scott Diamond, Deolis Guerra, Liam Hendriks, Jeff Manship, Tyler Robertson, Brendan Wise and Daryl Thompson. Rays Desmond Jennings LF, Elliot Johnson 2B, Sean Rodriguez SS, Carlos Pena 1B, Chris Gimenez 3B, Brad Coon RF, Stephen Vogt C, Jesus Feliciano CF, Nevin Ashley DH. Pitchers include Chris Archer, Matt Torra, Romulo Sanchez, Bry…

No one else started the thread so here we go! Thanks to Joe Christensen from StarTribune for posting lineups. TWINS (3-2) 1. Denard Span, CF 2. Tsuyoshi Nishioka, 2B 3. Josh Willingham, RF 4. Aaron Bates, 1B 5. Brian Dinkelman, DH 6. Sean Burroughs, 3B 7. Ben Revere, LF 8. Drew Butera, C 9. Pedro Florimon, SS Scheduled pitchers: Carl Pavano, Alex Burnett, Luis Perdomo, Jason Bulger, Jared Burton, Esmerling Vasquez, Daryl Thompson, Casey Fien. ORIOLES (1-2) 1. Endy Chavez, RF 2. J.J. Hardy, SS 3. Adam Jones, CF 4. Chris Davis, 1B 5. Matt Wieters, C 6. Mark Reynolds, 3B 7. Wilson Betemit, DH 8. Nolan Reimold, LF 9. Robert Andino, 2B Scheduled pitchers: Wei-Yin Chen, Arma…

Here are today's lineups for a noon start (on FSN): Ben Revere LF Jamey Carroll SS Ryan Doumit C Chris Parmelee 1B Danny Valencia 3B Brian Dinkelman RF Steve Pearce DH Joe Benson CF Alexi Casilla 2B Scott Baker pitching.

According to MLB.com's Rhett Bollinger, here is the Twins starting lineup: (1) Span - CF (2) Nishioka - 2B (3) Mauer - C (4) Morneau - 1B (5) Willingham - RF (6) Doumit - LF (7) Hughes - DH (8) Dozier - SS (9) Holliman - 3B SP Marquis (Hendriks, Manship, Gutierrez, Gray, Robertson, Wise, Guerra)

The other half of the Twins players are headed across Ft. Myers to check out (and play in) JetBlue Stadium against the Red Sox. Here is that lineup: Ben Revere LF Tsuyoshi Nishioka SS Rene Tosoni RF Aaron Bates 1B Luke Hughes DH Sean Burroughs 3B Ray Chang 2B Rene Rivera C Darin Mastroianni CF Pitchers: Francisco Liriano, Jared Burton, Esmerling Vasquez, Phil Dumatrait, Daryl Thompson, Jason Bulger, Kyle Waldrop, Liam Hendriks

The Twins have a split-squad double-header today and lots of guys are playing. Here is the lineup for the Twins against the Rays today: Alexi Casilla 2B Jamey Carroll SS Trevor Plouffe LF Chris Parmelee 1B Danny Valencia 3B Brian Dinkelman RF Steve Pearce DH Drew Butera C Joe Benson CF Pitchers: Terry Doyle, Scott Diamond, Luis Perdomo, Aaron Thompson, Lester Oliveros, PJ Walters, Casey Fien

Thanks to mlb.com's Rhett Bollinger, we have the starting lineup (not the batting order) for the Twins scrimmage on Thursday against the Red Sox. Pitchers will include Scott Baker, Nick Blackburn, Liam Hendriks, Jeff Manship, Jason Bulger, Carlos Gutierrez, Tyler Robertson, Brendan Wise and Deolis Guerra. In the field, the starters will be, "catcher J.R. Towles, first baseman Aaron Bates, second baseman Pedro Florimon, third baseman Ray Chang, shortstop Brian Dozier, left fielder Ben Revere, center fielder Joe Benson, right fielder Rene Tosoni and designated hitter Brian Dinkelman." We're getting close!