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The Twins have made a couple mad dashes to win the division from behind. Still love the Detroit one. Losing 2 games at home to a crappy team this far in the hole? It's done. At least we made it to memorial day (would have preferred Flag Day [June 4th]). Done with Donaldson. Done with Sano. Done with every other player on IL or should be on IL. I can't believe I put so much time into following this and waiting for it to happen and this is what I'm left with. If this was a mediocre team going into the season I would follow it as such, and judge it as such. This is a post season team that I'm going to judge as such. Thank you for your time

The Twins may have won yesterday, but they scored one run in 9 innings against the ****ING ORIOLES. That is a pathetic offense. So...offense. Something more important than a lot of people give it credit for. In 2019, the Twins had a record-setting year on offense. 307 HR, 939 Runs Scored, Top 5 in pretty much every (meaningful) batting stat. However, it went radio silent in the playoffs. Scoring 2.3 runs per game against that Yankees pitching staff is pathetic. In 2020, the Twins brought back all of the same hitters with one exception: They replaced C.J. Cron with Josh Donaldson in the starting lineup, which would make the offense (on paper) even better. Bu…

Here's a video that goes over some of the recent Twins injury news, goes over the team's outfield depth and offers up a potential emergency option in center field.

Sigh. One step forward, one step back. It never ends with this team. Hopefully Buxton will be back soon.

I used to think starting pitching was the single most important element in building a winning baseball team. While that's still important, I have come to the opinion that a deep and powerful bullpen is much more likely to lead to winning. For one thing, starters pitch fewer and fewer innings. But even more importantly, consistently winning the last 4 innings results in more wins than winning the first 5. I wonder what the Twins record would be if they had started the year with Cleveland's pen.

https://www.thescore.com/news/2178062 Josh Donaldson had an interesting twitter chat with former pitcher Dallas Braden regarding pitchers cheating... that would be a fun read, I bet.

Has anyone posted a good list before of promotions? I thought it would be very useful to have a place with a list of all promotions that are known. I'll start with a few that appear to still be active for the 2021 season. I think it would be wonderful if more people could add additional promotions they know of. Free Chick-fil-A classic sandwich - if the Twins hit a double during a home game the following day Chick-fil-A will give away one free classic chicken sandwich per person. Doubles hit Saturday or Sunday count for a free sandwich on Monday. If multiple people are in the car going through the drive-thru one sandwich per person is allowed. Just request the Twins doubl…

What players are you most looking forward to seeing in the 2nd half of this lost season? It's likely that we will see a fleury of trades come July, and that means the Twins will have to fill most of these holes from within. I wrote about some players we are likely to see in August and September, starting with starting pitchers

The Twins finally look like a good baseball team. Maybe it's time to add another arm to help the pen or injury depleted rotation. It seems like the Twins could, just maybe, go on a run before the all-star break. Bats are coming alive and Buxton should be back soon. So why not go get a middle-tier starter or reliever to help put up reasonable numbers now? If we start slipping back to what we've seen most of this year, go ahead and trade the guy to a real contender. Trade some of the guys who's contracts are up at the end of the year. A move like this obviously would cost you a prospect or two, and could bite you in the ass, but I feel like this team and fa…

After saying that Sano should be on a short leash and was "toast", he is solely responsible offensively for the last 3 Twins victories. Were it not for him, they would be on a long double digit losing streak. Not that it means he is over the hump so to speak but give credit where credit is due. In the year of the no hitter, maybe a .150 batting average with a few game winning home runs is ok.

I am so ready to see this team turn the page on veterans. If your going to have this many errors, misplay's in the field and strikeouts why continue to waste at bats, and innings played in the field on guy's like Simmons, Donaldson, JA Happ and Matt Shoemaker. I mean this is already almost the end of May, the Twins have the worst record and baseball and were already playing with names that you didn't expect to play in the line-up this year. So ready to not see Luis Araez playing any more left field. I'm not saying just outright DFA all of the guy's mentioned but trade them for lottery tickets in Class A or low A minors or instructional league level players. I would r…

For years the Stage Deli and Carnegie Deli created sandwiches honoring famous clientele such as: Marv Albert - Corned Beef and Swiss Cheese. Mel Brooks - Pastrami, Turkey and Swiss Cheese. Katie Couric - Turkey, Ham and Swiss Cheese. Clint Eastwood - Turkey, Tongue and Corned Beef. Gloria Estefan - Tuna, Bacon, American Cheese, Lettuce and Tomato. If you were creating a Twins version of the Stage Deli, what player-named sandwich creations would you put on the menu? Sandwich with the most likes wins.

https://www.vikings.com/news/garrett-bradbury-bailey-ober-twins-minnesota This is a really fun article from Lindsay Young on Vikings.com. I know I messaged Bailey when the Vikings took Bradbury to verify that they went to the same high school. Ober responded that Bradbury was his catcher... and Bradbury was really good at baseball too. Bradbury has now been starting the past couple of years for the Vikings and recently bought a place in Minnesota. When he got the text about Ober making his debut, he rushed to make sure he got there for it. Also of note, Bradbury's wife's younger brother is RHP Jackson Kowar, a top pitching prospect with the Royals - w…

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Like a well baked ham, this season is over. It's time to start thinking about the future of this ball team. Starting with the front office on down, some difficult decisions will have to be made. There's time enough to make some positional trades before the season is over. Time enough to shed some dead weight and heavy salaries. In terms of the talent gap, I'd start with the pitching. Bullpen in particular. Sure a couple of our starters have struggled at times. And the offensive numbers are down from last year. But it's our bullpen that has let the team down this season in a major way. I won't name names. The unpredictable nature of baseball is, well... pred…

Didn't take long for Bailey Ober to fit right in. Low 90's fastball and a change-up that flies quite well.

Steve Stone was the first to tweet it, but Betsy Helfand has confirmed the report... and Do provided clarification... "Non-Pitching Related Health Ailment." More to come, I'm sure.

Let me make it clear I am NOT advocating for anyone to lose their job. Nor am I placing blame for poor offensive performance on any one man, or two me as is the case here. I am also NOT looking for knee-jerk reactionism to some gut wrenching offensive performances from our 2021 Twins team. I am asking an honest question that I hope will bring honest and reflective conversation. With Rowson "in charge" in 2019 the Twins Bomba squad re-wrote record books. We will likely never see HR and dramatic production again the way we saw it that season. Rowson gone in 2020, weird season that it was, and weird and unexpected performances across MLB, including the Twins, we we…

The 1985-86 Twins lost a ton of games, but clearly they had a ton of talent. Are we seeing a massive reload of young talent by the Minnesota Twins? We thought this might be a good year for this wave of players (Sano, Buxton et al), but it has fizzled early from injuries and underperforming pitching. However, now we are getting extended looks at what appears to be a future lumber company, starting with Kirilloff, Larnach, and I think Jeffers. By next season we should see our next wunderkind, Royce Lewis. How will these guys be playing in 2023? Add to that a fleet of new pitchers, starting with Dobnak, then Duran and Balasovic, Jax, Thorpe, and Ober, Some of these guy…

Below is a list of pitchers I don't think the Twins can rely on. Unless your okay with a 5.0+ ERA. I could be wrong, but what I've seen is they just don't have it Current Pitchers on the roster Shaun Anderson J.A. Happ Derek Law Matt Shoemaker Much talked about prospects. Randy Dobnak Lewis Thorpe note: I had a previous account but could not recover. I could be wrong, we can always do an update.

It's taken 2 seasons for the catcher position to go from the top of the league to the bottom. In 2021, the catcher position has 40 K's in 86 PA, with 6 BB. On pace for 324 K's over 162 games. HR trend (162-game rate)... 2019: 307 2020: 246 2021: 170 (Buxton, Cruz on pace to account for 104 of those) 2021 Record when scoring 3 or fewer runs (13 games, 65% of all games): 3-10 2021 Record when scoring 5 or more runs (6 games, 30% of all games): 3-3

There are some details about Cave's injury at the Star Tribune: https://www.startribune.com/another-outfielder-hurt-cave-out-with-back-injury-twins-call-up-refsnyder-to-replace-him/600057645/

Outdoor transmission is less than 1% (some articles will say less than 10% - but the actual estimate is under 1%). The State and Feds have ended the mask mandates for vaccinated persons outside and inside. The Twins may disagree and still somehow feel there is some scientific justification for masks indoors (in bathrooms and inside area of “Legends” Club, in the bar areas ... ). But it’s time to let the vaccinated fans enjoy the fresh air outside rather than wearing our portable Metrodomes on our faces. Mayor Frey and Twins leadership: please decide before I go to Tuesday’s game. Why muffle the few cheers this team will get this season?

With a disappointing series against a bottom three team in baseball, and an 11-19 record 30 games into the year, it's hard to not ask the question of "who's still going to be here" come August 1st. In an attempt to figure out who has value and who doesn't, and what type of team may take a stab at some Twins, I created a blog post ranking the Twins pieces by value. How would you rank the Twins MLB players by trade value, and who do you think will realistically be moved barring a drastic turnaround?

After being swept by the White Sox, the Twins now have the worst record in MLB. Here's some talk about that series and how much of a nightmare the 2021 season has been.

This was an interesting article and it may be the Twins are not in as bad of position as we all seem to think, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-mlb-team-is-great-and-fewer-are-awful-is-this-the-parity-we-wanted/

It's Larnach time already? Booya!!

Sunday afternoon's Mother's Day rubber match against the Tigers was postponed due to rain. The game is rescheduled as part of a split doubleheader on July 16th in Detroit. The rescheduled game will begin at 1:10pm CST and the originally scheduled game will be played at 6:10pm CST. Baseball on Mother's Day has become a staple. And while it's unfortunate that the Twins couldn't play today, the organization made sure to recognize one of the the true all stars in Twins Territory. Meghann Morse. The Twins announced that Morse, this wife of Twins Director of Communications Dustin, would serve as today's honorary Bat Girl. Morse is a Breast Cancer survivor and was thanked by…

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