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Deadline Moves.

Should Twins be interested in Severino?

I think a great "soft sell" move would be the Twins trading 1 or 2 of Martin, Julien,  Miranda to Oakland for Luis Severino. Severino is having a perceived bad year, He actually has value. His split are solid away from that minor league ballpark the As play in, with an ERA of 3.03 on the road vs. 6.68 at home. while he is not a strikeout machine, he i slimiting hitters to a .212 avg on the road vs .303 at home.  Giving up .820 OPS at home but just .605 on the road. He just signed
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2025 Trade Deadline - 3 Off the Board (and counting), How Does This affect the Twins Potential Sales?

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 Yankees for LHP Griffin Herring (Yankees #17, 45 FV grade) and RHP Josh Grosz (not in top 30). McMahon is a much better fielder than Castro, Castro a much better hitter (112 OPS+ to 92 wRC+).  Suggests Castr
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Matt Wallner's a Baseball Magnet No More

Entering the 2025 season, the Twins were expecting great things from Matt Wallner. “The Pride of Forest Lake” had a 143 wRC+ (.251/.366/.500) in just over a full season’s worth of games, showing enough promise that the Twins were willing to part with longtime right fielder Max Kepler. He even took over one of Kepler’s primary spots in the batting order as the team’s leadoff hitter to start this season and rewarded the organization’s faith in him by hitting .263/.373/.474 (138 wRC+) until he was
Trade Deadline

Looking Back: Top Prospects Moved at the 2024 Trade Deadline

ESPN listed the top prospects moved at last year’s deadline. Let’s look at how they progressed with their new teams.    Aiden Smith OF: Acquired by the Rays in the Randy Arozarena deal. At the time he had an FV of 50 while playing A Ball in Modesto. The most recent update has him with a FV of 40+ as he has advanced to high A. He has an uninspiring OPS of .716 and hasn’t made it to AA yet. Jake Bloss SP: Acquired by Toronto in the Yusei Kikuchi deal. He had a good first half in AA wit
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Trade Deadline

Selling Like Tigers

I would sell off the expiring contracts this July but it isn’t a rebuild. I am going the 2024 Tigers route. They traded off four expiring contracts and let the players in their system have a chance to play. All four played significantly in their first half in #2 starter Jack Flaherty, lefty reliever Andrew Chafin, catcher Carson Kelly and Mark Canha. They replaced Flaherty with an opener and Tyler Hilton and Beau Brieske emerged. Brant Hurter was the lefty reliever. Spencer Torkelson returned fr
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starting pitching

An Audit of Rocco Baldelli and Starting Pitcher Hooks

Since taking over as Twins manager prior to the 2019 season, Rocco Baldelli has frustrated many fans with how early he removes his starting pitchers from games. Let’s travel through time and observe three starts from the past couple years.  June 18th, 2022 - Twins at Diamondbacks (Box Score) Starting Pitcher: Dylan Bundy This is Bundy's 11th start of the season since signing a free agent contract with the Twins for one year and $4 million. Up to this point, he'd only been allowed
Trade deadline

Dealing Ryan? Let’s look back at the Berrios deal.

The Twins traded a year of control in the Berrios deal. Some are speculating his trading Ryan and his two additional years of control. What would it take for that deal to work out? The Twins traded Berrios with the current and next season of control. In those two seasons he gave the Blue Jays 1.5 WAR and -0.6 WAR. Key elements to the deal the Twins were clearly out of the playoffs and gave up the one extra year of control with a shot at the playoffs. they acquired two we
Trade Deadline

Addition by Subtraction at the Trade Deadline

As the Twins sit on the bubble of being a playoff contender, we are seeing lots of discussion on whether the Twins should trade talent to make a run or build for the future. Adding a big bat or top notch arm are not likely to happen, but there is a way that the Twins could still compete for Wild Card without giving up the farm.  While there is lots of talk about dealing Griffin Jax, Joe Ryan, Jhoan Duran, and even Byron Buxton - it may be a few smaller profile deals that could help the Twins get
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A Possible Joe Ryan Extension

Amid the trade rumors surrounding Joe Ryan’s true breakout season, there are various fan bases putting out their mock trades to acquire the Twin’s ace before the deadline. In a sellers  market, Minnesota could capitalize on Ryan’s value, which very likely may never be higher, or they could extend Ryan, signifying him as a building block for future Twins teams. So far this season through 17 starts (18 games) Ryan has pitched to a 2.76 ERA in 104.1 innings with good peripherals, which accumulates
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What's the Roster and the Lineup On August 1 Forward and How do We Get there? Here's My Plan. What's Yours?

What's the Roster and the Lineup On August 1 Forward and How do We Get There? Here's My Plan. What's 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 playoffs and very unlikely to do anything if they sneak into the postseason. We're also not trading for an impact vet with the team up for sale. I say we pivot to see what we have by trading vets for prosp
Baseball Movies

The Fan (1996)

We all love baseball. If not, why are you here? But, we've all met that one person who takes things right to, or past, the edge. That person who really puts the "fanatical" in the term "fan." Many of our green and gold neighbors can attest to this. In the 1996 movie, "The Fan," we see this concept taken to extremes. I've been meaning to watch this one for quite a while, but it's been hard to find. It has less-than-stellar reviews, but let's give it a look anyway.   "The Fan" centers aroun
Deadline Moves.

Buy/Sell move

Such a weird position,  Having a record better than only 3 teams in the AL screams SEL SELL SELL!!!  At the same time a team being only 3.5 games out of a playoff spot screams BUY BUY BUY!!!  Especially for a cheap... I mean financially challenged team like the Twins.  That Playoff revenue would be such a welcome bonus. The Twins have a good number of peices that wont, or shouldn't be back next year so should we move them now if there is any value? Twins also have some decent prospects that
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Weird Baseball with Willy

Yes, other managers "punt" games too

Hello, fellow humans! My name is William Malone IV. Son of William Malone III. And I come with great news! The two time World Series champion Minnesota Twins won a baseball game last night against the one time World Series champion Texas Rangers. How did they win it? Rangers manager Bruce Bochy likely "punted" the game. This is something Twins manager Rocco Baldelli often does, and there are some fans who get angry whenever it happens. But last night shows that other managers do it too. Eve
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Twins single season all-quarter century team

Hello, fellow humans! My name is William Malone IV. Son of William Malone III. And I come with great news! It is 2025! This means a lot of publications are having fun with quarter-century teams for various leagues and franchises. I have decided to join in on the action...but with a twist. Here is the Twins quarter-century team based on single seasons. Not careers. Make sure to sound off in the comments about what a big stupid dum dum I am when you disagree with the list. Catcher - 2009
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Sizzling Twins Take On The Brewers for Rivalry Weekend

The Minnesota Twins come into their weekend series as one of the hottest teams in the league, winning eleven straight games in a row; the Twins haven't seen much movement up in the Central Division standings due to the Tigers, Guardians, and Royals playing great baseball as well. The Twins, however, have climbed into one of the three wild-card spots, with a 0.5-game lead on the Texas Rangers. The Twins have done everything during this winning streak and received contributions from the whol
New Catching Prospect Signed by Twins

New Twin Catching Prospect Signed.

On may 9, 2025 I was in Greensboro, NC watching my grandson's team play in the North Carolina High School Baseball Playoffs.  I met Luke Napleton from Chicago. He had been playing for a semi-pro team in High Point, NC, called The Rockers. (High Point used to manufacture a lot of furniture and has furniture markets every year.) Frank Viola is the pitching coach for the Rockers. Luke told me he had just been signed by the Twins and was going to Ft. Myers this weekend. He expected to either play at
Baseball Movies

Game 6 (2005)

Sports fans take their game and their favorite team seriously. Too seriously more often than not. You see the passion play out in "The Sandlot," but they're kids. They'll grow out of it, right? For many of us the answer to that is, no, we won't. We will continue to put baseball and our favorite team right in the dead center of our emotional daily lives. Unfortunately, for many fans (Twins fans included) that can be an ongoing drama. And yet, we love it. 2005's "Game 6" is a flick that looks at
Weird Baseball with Willy

Be careful what you wish for with owners

Hello, fellow humans! My name is William Malone IV. Son of William Malone III. And I come with great news! The Minnesota Twins just swept the Baltimore Orioles in a three game series. This is good news because it's never a bad thing to sweep an opponent. It doesn't matter what their record is. Sweeps are good! Even though all sweeps are good, the Baltimore Orioles have been struggling a bit. Granted, they've been better in recent seasons. Baltimore won 83 games in 2022, 101 games in 20
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Turning the Tide: Twins Showing Signs of Life

The Minnesota Twins are slowly climbing back to .500 on the season (16-20). This slow start has been attributed to injuries, inconsistencies in the lineup, and a few bullpen hiccups. With the weather warming up and the Twins getting to play some lighter competition, they have slowly turned the corner on their painful start to the season.    Griffin Jax started the season with a few blown saves and two bad losses as he saw his ERA balloon to over 11. After his last loss against Atlanta,
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Has Joe Ryan vaulted himself into ace status?

Joe Ryan came into the 2025 season with something to prove after his injury-shortened season last year. Ryan made 23 starts in 2024, going 7-7 with an ERA of 3.60 before cutting his season short with a right shoulder strain. He has been one of the most important pitchers in the rotation since making his debut in 2021.  In the 2025 season, Ryan had been nothing short of dominant. Ryan has a nice five-pitch repertoire, which he features the four-seam fastball and sweeper 73% of the time. His
Baseball Movies

The Sandlot (1993)

I like baseball movies that make me feel something. It might be the thrill of a big moment like the homerun in The Natural or Wild Thing's big entrance in Major League. I might be a nostalgia for the game, itself, like any of Costner's baseball movies, really. 1993's The Sandlot makes me feel and remember the pure joy of playing baseball as a kid with a bunch of crackpot friends! There are a lot of baseball flicks that showcase a team of kids and it's essential to bring out their personalities a
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Buxton Reaches Rare Twins Home Run-Stolen Base Milestone

The Minnesota Twins drafted Byron Buxton with the second overall pick in 2012. Drafted with the promise of a five-tool player boasting 30-30 potential, injuries and an inconsistent approach at the plate have unfortunately hindered Buxton from fully realizing that talent over his 11-year career. He has battled knee injuries, back problems, wrist issues, concussions, migraines, hip soreness, and other nagging issues. All these injuries have amounted to him missing around 50% of his playing ti
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