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I think they got it from MLB The Show on PS4.

The crowd noise already feels really natural, I was worried about that. I'm just so happy to have baseball. Low bar to clear but this is one of the best nights in a long time.

Aaron Sabato is a great baseball name. Say that name out loud and you can imagine he's Clu Heywood like masher.

I don't have particularly high hopes for either but Gordon should at least be close to ready (if he ever will be, which was maybe your point). 160+ games at AAA and he actually had a better year last year than I would've thought. That said I would imagine Adrianza is next up if Arraez were injured.

Not "when" someone makes this comment but "why"

"Maybe my wife and I will have a good long life together" he said right after the wedding "Or maybe she will start cheating on me with my brother and my car will explode leaving me horribly scarred and I'll get fired from my job and my dog will leave me after finding a better family and all of my limbs will start to aggressively rot away." You Minnesota Sportsfanned the HELL out of that man! It's not even March!

It's not frivolous at all, there is inarguable evidence of wrongdoing and putting all of the evidence in public light and trying to hold the players accountable not only has value but seems pretty clearly the right thing to do. To me the ONLY reason not to do that is you want the story out of the news cycle asap. If there was video evidence of players injecting themselves with steroids I would bet that even Selig wouldn't have given the players immunity. This whole thing is very sad and Marwin Gonzalez is the first Twins player that I have ever disliked.

This guy is often full of nonsense, apparently.

No man, don't let the Minnesotaness take over. We can enjoy things!

Love the enthusiasm but that is not how international spending works.

If they still trade for Jon Gray or someone who is a top 3 arm in our rotation, sure fine, extra arms can't hurt. If not this is exactly opposite of what they said they were doing and just continued the tradition of dumpster diving and disappointing Twins fans. I trusted Falvine and this is annoying.

Most of us have spent a lot of money on the team. I have anyway. Season ticket holder, too many jerseys for an adult man to be proud of, lots of other swag, All Star Game, you name it. If it's now taboo to expect/hope your team spends some money to make them better I find that very, very silly.

As much as I love baseball is equal to the amount I hate baseballs unwritten rules. I disagree entirely with the notion that Jake Cave owes anyone anything. He is a hitter and he got a hit, if you don't like throw better pitches. I don't believe in throwing at players in any circumstance, it's dangerous and childish. That said I hope the Twins throw inside a lot more than necessary tonight and then throw down a bunt single followed by a steal when they're up by 10.

Hence TINSTAAPP

I read this in a recent Keith Law chat, wondering if anyone has heard this from another source? Mike G: Worried about Royce Lewis’s slow start? Keith Law: About his start, no. About the changes to his mechanics – he’s gotten very noisy, with a hitch now and multiple triggers – yes.

I really didn't expect a "meh" directed towards Martin Perez in this thread! I would be more cautious about his start if weren't for the noticeable differences in his pitching. His cutter is new this year and he's throwing it a lot. That and 2-3 mph on your fastball makes him a pretty different pitcher than the one we though we signed.

There is a lot to like about this team but the lack of bullpen help this year, to me, is such an obvious mistake I kind of can't believe they didn't do anything about it. Every year you have guys that go from a near nobody to an impressive bullpen piece. The Twins seem to be hoping 3 or 4 guys do that. Even our one proven bullpen arm, Rogers, doesn't have a long history of sustained success. I think it's an easy decision to sign Kimbrel or to be very aggressive on the trade market as soon as you can.

I loved collecting cards when I was a kid. I invested heavily into 1988 Donruss and my favorite non-Twins card was probably Tom Newell. He only pitched one inning for the Phillies in 1987 and he had a 36.00 ERA which I found very funny when I was 12 years old. I thought of that when I noticed Chase DeJong had a matching ERA for the Twins this year. The good news for Chase is that last night wasn't his only big league inning, unlike our old friend Tom Newell who never pitched in the big leagues again.

It's nice to have both a good, fun big league club and a good, fun minor league system. It seems likely that these guys are going to supplement an already good team rather than be forced to be the saviors. In 2007 Nick Blackburn was our #1 prospect, I wonder if he'd even make this top 20 now?

Give one of the free sites a shot. ESPN and Yahoo are both good and if you don't dig it you're not invested. I find it gives me a reason to pay attention to the whole league and if the Twins disappoint (impossible!) I still have a reason to feel invested in September. We do commish only vetoes because in my experience other owners veto a trade if it's going to make a good team better. We have a keeper league so an owners motivations can vary depending on where you are in the standings (I might trade a stud for a prospect to keep the following year, for instance)

Maybe 1 or 2 at the most. I set my lineup twice a week and check the waiver wire a few times a week. I check my score every night but that's mostly because I'm already watching baseball and staring at my phone anyway. If you didn't watch any baseball it would be tough, you want to be aware when your guy goes on or comes off the DL and to know when the "next big thing" is being called up to the show.

I have a long standing fantasy baseball league for which I'm looking for either 1 or 3 new teams. We've had a few deflections in the last 2 years (children are largely to blame) and went from a long time 10 team league to 8 last year and are currently at 7. Would love to get back to 10. 5x5 (OBP, HR, R, RBI, SB / W, K, SV, ERA, WHIP) 2 player keeper (first year kept is a 1 round raise, 50% of the rounds for the next 3 - so 20th round drafted can be kept for 4 years = 19th round/9th/4th/2nd) $100 via leaguesafe. Good group of guys, mostly Twins fans, 1 Rockies fan. Live online draft tentatively scheduled for 3/24. Let me know if anyone would like to play.

It makes way, way too much sense to sign Kimbrel. The money and need line up perfectly and I find it frustrating that there hasn't even been a connection between the team and him. Hopefully they're meeting in a parking ramp late at night and no one knows.

Let me get this straight - this team has missed the playoffs for 1 straight seasons and instead of signing a real bear that could maybe charge, attack or otherwise startle the opponent they sign this bum? A mascot bear who can’t even pull it together to run in the mascot race? Noooo, instead for him we have a designated runner (thank you Wanda, an actual athlete) so that TC can busy himself shooting fans, including children, with a cannon? Unconscionable.

Only 5 pitchers in all of MLB hit 210 IP last year. Gibson and Berrios were both north of 190. This team has problems but I don't see their workload as one of them.