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Greg Allen

Newly available players I’m interested for Twins.

Here are some newly available players who would be low cost and could help the Twins. Recently non-tendered or released players I’d be interested in for the Twins: Austin Hays (previous 22 HR season), Ramon Laureano (hit .296 w > .500 SLG for Braves), Cal Quantrill and Cody Morris, who I saw pitch a dominant gem at Cleveland in person against the Twins and have never forgotten it! That being said, my nice tidy 129.xx million dollar blueprint for the Twins brings in Jurickson P
Fantasy GM

Who is Michael Helman...

... and why is he on the 40 man roster over Kala'i Rosario? Granted Rosario is by no means a cant miss prospect, and there is a possibility that he will not be claimed in the Rule 5 draft,  Why the heck do you send him to AFL  and then not protect him? With no disrespect to Helman... Helman is 28 tears old,  will not crack opening day roster when we have Buxton, Larnach, Wallner, and even Austin Martin? and if you believe reports of us being linked to Tyler Oniel there is no immed
Doc Munson

Doc Munson in Twins Offseason Moves

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Paul Danesi

Players Who Went Right To The Major Leagues

In baseball there is a chance for something special to happen in every game. One of the rarer events is for a player to make his major league debut and never had spent any time in the minors. Since the advent of the American and National League in the early 1900’s, only 102 players can make this claim. There are 4 subsets of players who have achieved this rarity. 1) Prior to World War II – Thirteen players are in this group. Almost half of these players have been inducted into the
Battle Your Tail Off

It's The Offseason So That Means "You're The Twins GM!"; The 2025 Payroll Blueprint Tool Has Released

Every offseason, we offer our You’re The GM! tool (formerly the Payroll Blueprint) to build your ideal Twins roster. This year, we’ve updated and streamlined the tool a bit to improve the experience. The idea behind this feature is to give fans a chance to play the role of General Manager (or CBO or PoBO… you get the idea) for their favorite team, the Minnesota Twins. It’s meant to give fans the opportunity to discuss (and, let’s be honest, argue) how they would approach the long, dark MLB
Brock Beauchamp

Brock Beauchamp in Twins Daily

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Shallow Thoughts - bean5302

bean5302's 2024-2025 Twins Offseason Plan

The first step in any offseason plan is identifying the needs and the wants for the organization. The only real needs are a payroll of $130MM or less, and a full 26 man roster with 13 or more position players to meet MLB rules. While ownership is on record saying they don’t expect to cut payroll further or that they expect payroll to remain similar, Falvey is also on more recent record making it about as clear as he possibly could last year’s $130MM mark the Twins opened with is the ceiling. “Si
bean5302

bean5302 in General Stuff

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RC's Ramblings

Will the Twins sign a Top 50 free agent?

The current iteration of the Twins' Front Office, led by Derek Falvey, has not been a frequent participant in the upper echelons of free agency, usually preferring to add impact players to the Major League roster from the farm system or via trade. They haven't sat out on this market entirely however, as signings such as Nelson Cruz, Josh Donaldson, and especially Carlos Correa show that they are indeed to step in and participate for the right price and player. Despite the continued budget restri
RCCola

RCCola in Free Agency

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cjm0926's Blogs

My 2025 Offseason Blueprint

The 2024 World Series just ended last night with the Dodgers beating the Yankees, which means moves and transactions are on the horizon. Being a typical MLB fan, I enjoy playing pretend GM and setting teams rosters for the upcoming season. There are certainly some needs with the Twins current roster, and I am aiming to fix them to improve the team for next season. Twins current ownership has already said payroll will be about the same as in 2024 ($130 million-ish), so I will take that into accou
cjm0926

cjm0926 in Twins

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Brett Turnquist

Willi Castro is the key to 2025 Roster Construction

There's a lot of discussion around Willi Castro and whether the Twins will pay up an estimated $6.2M via arbitration to keep him around next year. People are coming down on both sides, and really anyone could be right. I see 3 scenarios where the Castro decision shows which way the team will decide to construct next year's roster. Take a break from the Dodgers crushing the Yankees (we'll see how that statement ages), and take a walk with me... Scenario 1 - Joe Pohlad finds his wallet I
Brett

Brett in 2025 Roster

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FestaFanatic's First Foray into Writing

I'm a Festa Fanatic, and here's why you should be too

By now I'd imagine all of you know who David Festa is, top pitching prospect last year who got called up mid-season to fill the void Chris Paddack left after having yet another season ending injury. His results were middling and some of his underlying metrics don't impress but I'm here to convince you to buy in on a breakout next year (hence the article's name) so let's get right into it! Starting off, Festa's whopping 31.7% chase rate, 28.2% whiff rate and 27.8 K% all are well above league aver
Josh Rahman

Josh Rahman in Player Deep Dive

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Fantasy GM

Arod Cuban ownerhsip group??

Of course this is completely made up wild speculation, but how cool woudl this scenario be?? Arod and Lore are in squabbles about the Wolves ownership.. Mark Cuban has gone on record stating he would become an owner of a new team if Shaq was involved.  And Derek Jeter has always had aspirations of ownership.   How about this for a dual ownerhsip group. Arod, Jeter, Cuban, and Shaq, form a singular entity and buy BOTH the Twins AND the Wolves!!  and just for local interes
Doc Munson

Doc Munson in Twins

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Left Coast Bias

Salt River Rafters game thread 10/9/24

Where's the game thread for our AFL team today?  Guess I have to start my own.  J/K.  Here's a photo though.  That's Kala'i Rosario in RF in case you can't tell.  😊  Had a good time watching a bad, sloppy game last night, with USAF Chief. / edit - and that's Rosario with a HR swing in the 5th in the cover photo   
ashbury

ashbury in AFL

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March To October

Twins Extend Long-Term Deal with Audacy, Stay on WWCO

The Minnesota Twins Might Be getting a new television deal. But their radio station  is staying the same. This morning the Minnesota Twins agreed to a extension with The radio broadcast company Audacy. The deal includes being able to broadcast twins games on WWCO for Minnesota And Their Neighboring states for their fans. Also anyone with the Audacy Apps. It also includes rights for the postseason. But despite this the Television rights remain a mystery what do you guys think of this?
C-Gangster

C-Gangster in March To October

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Giles Ferrell's Blog

The 2024 Season In A Fan's View

I've followed the Twins for as long as I can remember. I am not going to pretend I've seen it all, but that makes the following statement come with deep thought and reflections before saying it aloud: I have never been more angry at the end of a season and feel as disconnected from the baseball team I love and support as I do at this particular moment. Just 52 short weeks ago, the Twins did something they had not done in nearly two decades. They won a playoff game. In fact, they w
Giles Ferrell

Giles Ferrell in Minnesota Twins

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March To October

March To October: Season Recap, Awards, ETC...

As we all know the twins season came to a end last night in the saddest way. possible but today I don't want to focus on the bad stuff. Today we are going to focus on the good stuff Highlights From The Twins Season 1 They Won 14 Straight After A rough Start to the season. 2 The Twins Had 2 All Stars 3 The Twins Had A lot of key players and a key season they just fell into a weird slump their at the end. Awards Now is the time I Want to give out the March To
C-Gangster

C-Gangster in March To October

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March To October

Orioles 6, Twins 2: A Bittersweet Farewell To This Season.

As we all know this is the bittersweet end to The Minnesota Twins Season. But there were a lot of good things as well. The Minnesota Twins Finishing with a winning record 82-80 Just Above .500. The Minnesota Twins Will not make the playoffs but it was a very decent season here till the end.  So Thank you for reading Reading All my article and supporting me throughout this incredible season. SO Thank you So much and have a wonderful Off season    
C-Gangster

C-Gangster in March To October

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March To October

Orioles 7, Twins 2: Minnesota Twins Eliminated

As we all know the 2024 Playoffs will not include the Minnesota twins. Wich is really surprising this year. The Twins Fell into a slump late August and were eliminated from the playoffs just 2 days ago Wich is very sad and surprising. Just yesterday there were chants to fire Rocco. Rocco Also said " This Will Bother Me forever". The twins falling into a slump last month going 23 and 31 leaving Fans in shock after the elimination. As the twins will not be in the playoffs this year. loo
C-Gangster

C-Gangster in March To October

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Fantasy GM

Rock Paper Scissors

How a bout a quick game of Rock Paper Scissors. But this time in the form of Players, Coaches, Front Office. With an historic collapse liek the Twins had there is never just 1 reason for it. There are always multiple reasons. So how about a game of PCF? Where would apply the primary Failures? Not I am not including injuries in the game because a 4th option just does not fit the game. Plus depending on the injury it could fall into any of the current 3. 1) Offense: Down t
Doc Munson

Doc Munson in Twins

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Fantasy GM

Worse than I thought...

Holy cow,  How pathetic were the Twins Pitching additions this year by our FO?  we all know it was pathetic, but did you know it was THIS pathetic? I didnt quite realize how poor the moves were... until I read the article by Do-Hyoung Park... Here is the sum total of our pitching additions this year... OFFSEASON MOVES: Anthony DeSclafina: $4M   DNP Josh Staumant:  $950K  Released 8/2. Steven Okert::  $1M DFA  8/24   Jay Jackson  $1.3M DFA 6/21 Justin Topa: $1.2
Doc Munson

Doc Munson in Twins

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March To October

Marlins 6, Twins 4: Twins Might get eliminated soon

The twins are about 1 more loss and 1 more tigers or Royals win from being eliminated. Rocco balldeli says he will do anything for the twins to make the playoffs. But some people have given up. Even Guys like Carlos Correa and Royce Lewis are not very happy. “To rely on all of us young guys who have not done that and expect us to perform at a high level when our bodies are trying to figure this thing out as we go, I think that is definitely challenging. I think [Correa] hit it on the mark. In te
C-Gangster

C-Gangster in March To October

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March To October

Marlins 4, Twins 1: Twins Struggles Continue

Intro As we all know the Minnesota twins have been in a very bad slump recently and the main problems has been the increase In strikkeouts less RBIs with runners in scoring position. Also the twins have been very stressed recently especially in the Clubhouse. The Minnesota twins The year the win 14 straight and 1 year after they make the playoffs only have a 27.0 Chance Of making the playoffs Batting/Pitching  The Twins Runner in scoring position and strikeout problem have
C-Gangster

C-Gangster in March To October

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Left Coast Bias

Good Judgment with Numbers

I ran across an article, in a completely non-sports context (ethical choices), that fairly well sums up my view on using analytics wisely. Have a read, see what you think.  I'm not going to short-circuit discussion by providing a summary; if no discussion occurs, so be it. https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/good-judgment-with-numbers
ashbury

ashbury in Analytics

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March To October

Red Sox 8&9, Twins 1&2: Twins Playoff Hopes Floundering

Intro In a crucial late-season stretch, the Minnesota Twins faced a challenging setback as they dropped two consecutive games to the Boston Red Sox, a team that is hovering right at the .500 mark. These losses are particularly surprising given the Twins' strong performance against teams at or below .500 this season. The Twins entered the series with high hopes, aiming to solidify their position as they head into the playoff push with just a week left in the regular season. However, aft
C-Gangster

C-Gangster in March To October

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