https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/24129-time-to-bring-back-ces-hes-on-waivers/The Reds DFA'd former Twin Christian Encarnacion-Strand (aka CES) for assignment today, His overall MLB stats are not great, but not horrible, and he is a RH hitting 1B. Probably as good as or better than Wagaman, and with more power potential. What does everyone think about bringing him back? It l...24129Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:56:04 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/24090-twins-to-interview-james-rowson-for-manager-shelton-also-in-play/Breaking news from MLB Trade Rumors. The Yankees have granted the Twins permission to speak with James Rowson about their managerial vacancy. The news originally was attributed to the New York Post baseball reporters. They also report that the Twins have considered Derek Shelton and Ramon Vasquez a...24090Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:47:57 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/24080-next-years-roster-a-thought-experiment-can-you-do-better/Well, this season's over except for the crying (like after last night), so a young(ish) man's thoughts turn to next season. What should that Opening Day roster look like? Here's my take. Couple of rules - you have to use guys we now have or, if you put in a trade or FA placeholder you have to ident...24080Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:15:54 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/24075-houston-may-want-to-trade-for-correa-should-we-do-it/There are reports out today that Houston is looking at trading for Correa with Paredes likely out for an extended period and perhaps for the season. Who knows if this is true, but what would/could we get for Correa? Should we do a deal? I would consider doing this IF we can get a solid prospec...24075Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:04:54 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/24069-2025-trade-deadline-3-off-the-board-and-counting-how-does-this-affect-the-twins-potential-sales/Maybe I'm just bored at work, but I thought it might be good to have a blog where we track the MLB players traded, see the returns, and see how that effects what the Twins might, should, or could do. Here's a start with the first 3: Ryan McMahon to Yankees - Rockies traded 3B McMahon to Yankee...24069Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:21:26 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/24061-whats-the-roster-and-the-lineup-on-august-1-forward-and-how-do-we-get-there-heres-my-plan-whats-yours/We're heading toward the trade deadline and things are not going well, to put it mildly.  Where does everyone think we'll be on August 1 and how will we get there? My view is that we should be playing for 2026 and beyond at this point. The current iteration of this team is unlikely to make the play...24061Fri, 04 Jul 2025 21:05:03 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/24029-who-replaces-wallner-as-he-goes-to-the-il/Wallner is going on the IL today with hamstring tightness, assumedly retroactive a day. Who comes up? This decision is a little more complicated than usual because Austin Martin is on the minor league IL, we can't make Castro an OF because we don't have enough left side infielders unless Correa can...24029Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:35:19 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/24012-keirsey-julien-and-gaspar-make-opening-day-roster/MIB trade Rumors is reporting (from Betsy Helfand ) that Keirsey and Gaspar made the team to open 2025.  They also speculate that locks in Julien on the team. Martin is being sent to St. Paul. Good decisions in my view. I hope all three get enough playing time while Lee and Lewis are out so we can...24012Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:51:13 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23973-helman-traded-to-cards/MLB Trade Rumors is reporting that the Twins traded Michael Helman to St. Louis for cash. It does not say how much cash. Well, I guess we now know how the team is paying ofr Bader and one of the players going to create a 40 man vacancy. Not very exciting.  23973Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:53:58 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23912-varland-optioned-to-st-paul-81524/Just saw that the Twins have optioned Louie Varland back to St. Paul. No corresponding move yet announced. Looks like Festa and Matthews are the short term winners for the #4 and #5 rotation spots with Varland as #6 for the time being. Assume he will be back before 9/1 in the bullpen unless there's...23912Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:16:28 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23909-there-is-help-on-the-waiver-wire-should-we-try-to-grab-it/In classic Twins fashion, we saved our run of poor injury luck for just after the trade deadline (not that we would've traded for anybody any good anyway), leaving the team short at some important positions. It's August, the time when a young Front Office's heart turns to that classic rebound refug...23909Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:09:46 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23906-sometimes-fallout-is-good-for-you-any-pitchers-worth-getting-who-have-been-dfad-to-make-room-for-trades/Well, the trade deadline is come and gone and the Twins have picked up Trevor Richards. No, not Trevor Rogers, Taylor Rogers or even Mr. Rogers (it is a beautiful day in the neighborhood), Trevor Richards. I frankly never heard of him but he apparently is a mediocre right-handed reliever who tends...23906Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:07:41 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23876-paddack-to-il-ronny-henriquez-up/MLB Trade Rumors is reporting that Chris Paddack has been placed on the 15 day Injured List. The corresponding transaction is a call up of Ronny Henriquez. With the Monday off day, Ober can start on Thursday in Arizona on regular rest. Boushley and Dobnak would also be on regular rest to start Thur...23876Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:49:56 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23875-twins-pre-trade-deadline-needs-potential-in-house-solutions/We are closing in on Trade deadline season, that time when we all can fantasize about trading mid-level prospects for other team's stars. Before we get there though, we need to decide what this team actually needs and evaluate whether there are in-house options that can fill the bill. Trading at th...23875Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:52:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23864-who-says-no-to-the-athletics-proposed-twins-trade-for-alonso-i-do/The Athletic just published an article about "FIve Trades I'd Like To See" before the MLB trade deadline. One of them involved the Twins trading for Pete Alonso: Twins get: Pete Alonso Mets get: Alex Kirilloff, David Festa, Luke Keaschall I for one would be very irritated if the Twin...23864Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:56:33 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23851-what-should-happen-to-miranda-when-lewis-comes-back/With the recent good news that Royce Lewis it's just about ready to start an assumedly short rehab assignment, one's mind turns to what happens when he's ready to rejoin the Twins. You have to think that he'll be playing 3B at least three or four times a week and probably more, and we have Castro a...23851Wed, 22 May 2024 15:57:52 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23799-has-varland-won-the-5th-starter-job-what-are-the-options-for-desclafani/Louis Varland just went four innings, one hit, in his last spring training start. He has gone 11 innings in 4 appearances, 3 starts, and is given up a total of six hits and no runs. He's got 11 strikeouts, one walk, a spring training WHIP of 0.64, and an ERA of 0.00. I know spring training statisti...23799Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:47:12 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23769-twins-farm-system-ranked-9-by-espn/There's an article on ESPN ranking all the MLB farm system by "empirical surplus dollar value", whatever that is. The Twins are ranked as #9. That's a little bit higher than I would have expected and the ranking does not appear to include the Seattle prospect we just got in the Polanco trade, at le...23769Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:35:49 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23707-starter-order-for-alds-what-would-you-do/Now that we've won, time to start thinking about how we line up the starters for the ALDS. Games 1 and 2 are Saturday and Sunday in Houston, 3 and 4 are Tuesday and Wednesday in MN, and game 5 Friday in Houston. Lopez is able to go Sunday on 4 days rest, Gray not until Tuesday.  Ryan would be next...23707Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:26:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23664-lewis-up-to-replace-luplow-or-gallo-makes-sense-for-2023-and-really-makes-sense-for-2024/We need a CF for 2024 and a better RH hitting OF for 2023. I think our highest and best hope in 2024 should be that Buxton plays 80ish games in the OF next year and another 50 at DH. That means we will need another player to be a half to 2/3 time starting CF. I frankly think we have that guy in Max...23664Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:28:21 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23646-lewis-back-up-to-replace-solano-polanco-to-1b/Well, now what do we do with Solano spraining his knee? Hard to believe that's a day to day thing. By the way, "sprained knee" is often the diagnosis until the MRI shows a torn meniscus or ligament damage.  So what do we do? God help us if the answer is play Joey Gallo every day.  I say we we...23646Wed, 09 Aug 2023 16:04:21 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23577-time-to-shake-up-that-underperforming-lineup/The current lineup isn't working and hasn't worked for awhile. It's great that Farmer is back but Farmer isn't likely to provide the lineup spark we need. He was 0 for his last 11 with 8 strikeouts before he got hurt. If you look at the lineup/26 man roster realistically, who can be that spark? The...23577Wed, 10 May 2023 17:14:54 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23525-trade-kyle-farmer-to-the-dodgers-maybe-with-kepler/Kyle Farmer is a starting quality MLB SS will fill a bench role for the Twins this year. While he is valuable in that role, his biggest value might have just come in - as a trade chip to the Dodgers to replace Gavin Lux at SS after Lux tore his ACL yesterday.  The Dodgers other option is 34-year-ol...23525Wed, 01 Mar 2023 15:50:41 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23518-angels-sign-matt-moore/The Angels signed Matt Moore to a 1 year, 7.55m deal for 2023. No options in the deal. Would you pay him that? I would not given our other options.    https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/02/angels-nearing-deal-with-matt-moore.html23518Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:06:12 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/23503-finish-the-roster-trade-for-reynolds-and-sign-chafin-or-fulmer/We're close to a contender. We still need a middle of the order bat and another quality reliever. How do we do this? Here's a radical plan. Four simple steps: 1. Trade Larnach, Ober, and either Salas or Emmanuel Rodriquez to the Pirates for Bryan Reynolds. Add in Martin or Reyes if you have to...23503Sun, 29 Jan 2023 20:40:31 +0000