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With the Twins falling behind 6-0 Friday night against the Rangers, it seemed like an incredibly tall task for their slumping offense to mount a comeback.

It took them one inning.

An offensive explosion in the fifth inning resulted in eight runs for the Twins. The Bullpen backed that up with a masterful performance to protect the lead.

There will be more specials, giveaways and prizes at this year’s Winter Meltdown than ever before, but we also have fewer tickets available than ever before, so make sure you’re here on Tuesday morning at 8:00 AM. Today we can announce Three Olives will be offering a cocktail at a special price. Plus, another hint about our main guest.

At the highest level, one of the Twins most prized pitching prospects settled into a groove for his best start on the young season. A scary scene in Pensacola halted the action in the midst of a victory. Down in Fort Myers, it was a less than ideal way to end a road trip, but home cooking is on the horizon. Read about all the action below.

On a night in which the Minnesota Twins honored closer Joe Nathan by inducting him into the Twins Hall of Fame there was no closer needed. Thanks in large part to a bombing barrage courtesy of the Minnesota offense.

The day after celebrating their first division title since 2010, the Minnesota Twins deployed a lineup consisting of six players who began the year in the minor leagues. Seven if you count the starting pitcher, Devin Smeltzer.

Luckily they were playing against Detroit, whose regular lineup is still worse than the Twins Triple-A lineup.

A combination of geography and a rebounding free agency market seem to be conspiring against Minnesota’s chances of acquiring a top-of-the-rotation starter this offseason. Most of the top starters don’t seem keen on pitching in Minnesota and the higher-than-expected contract dollars and length are not playing in the Twins favor.

Whew. What a Hot Stove home stretch. You can't rule anything out, but the Twins appear to have completed their offseason, with a late surge of activity crystallizing the front office's championship resolve.

Let's get up to speed with a final rundown as spring training officially gets underway.

There are not too many books that inspire me to purchase them months in advance but when word of Jared Diamond’s forthcoming Swing Kings set a late March release date, I swung by Amazon and reserved my copy.

Player development, to say the least, is my jam. Any written word on the industry is an open invitation to take my money.

The previous year it was Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik’s very worthy MVP Machine, a dive into the changes in the player development side of the game that made me get off my wallet and wait patiently for the pile of dead trees to arrive.

If you take a look at the top of the pitching leaderboard on Fangraphs you’ll notice a familiar name when sorting by fWAR. Somewhat surprisingly a look back at 2019 has that same familiar name in the top three across the sport. Despite how good he’s been, the Twins should avoid Lance Lynn at the deadline.

The film Moneyball was recently uploaded to Netflix. Naturally, I watched it the first day it was available because of how hard it slaps (and because it documents the last time the Twins won a playoff series). In it there’s a

With spring training slated to begin in a month, this weekend sourced a plethora of action across the MLB. While the Twins have stayed quiet, other teams haven’t. Let’s dig in.

Minnesota becomes the Land of 10,000 Fans, and what to take from today’s Spring Training contest.