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Pitching

Is the bullpen Shaping up?

The bullpen was and still is the team's biggest wild card this season.  The Twins are trying more pitchers and giving chances to get outs and lately we seem to be getting more outs as our bullpen is beginning to take shape.   Taylor Roger 3.72 ERA after today's game 8 ER in 19.33 innings with 15 K's Banda 5.96 ERA though 2.84 ERA in last 14 outings with 4 ER in 12.33 innings and with 9 K's Orze 3.38 ERA over 24 innings 9 ER and 21 K's Kendry Rojas 1.26 2 ER in 14.33 innings a
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Notes

Time For Change

I joined this site over 14 years ago. It probably puts me pretty high on seniority list. At the time, I chose the Fire Dan Gladden moniker as a joke, albeit an honest one. I have not paid much attention to it until relatively recently… I do not know Dan Gladden. My opinions on him are strictly as a radio personality. Do I think Dan Gladden is a solid radio voice? No. Do I want the Twins to replace him? Yes. As a color guy he is tolerable. As a play-by-play, he is lost and has shown no impro
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Deadline Moves.

Top Ten Twins Trade Target

OK I will not have 10, I just wanted to add another "T" word in the Title.  HAHA!! The eternal optimist can say we are just 1.5 games out of the playoffs right now, but the realist says there is just no way we remain in contention. This of course could make Joe Ryan pure trade bait. Not to mention probably THEE top starting pitcher in the trade market. The Twins should be able to command a top return from any team interested. He should be SO in demand that the twins should actually be the o
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Catcher's defense

Jeffers and Catcher ERA

By my eyes I believed Jeffers is better at handling pitchers than Caratini. I would even said the difference is significant. I went to Fangraphs and Jeffers is a -1 for his cERA and Caratini is a +1. Yikes! My eyes must be way off. Sure enough Jeffers has a catcher ERA of 4.59 with Caratini at 3.88. Will the staff be in better hands with Caratini taking more of the load? Not satisfied I looked deeper to see if anything was skewing the data. Could it be one bad game? In my mind I trust Jeffe
General

2026 Road Trip

Since 2018 I’ve tried to take a minor league baseball road trip with friends every year. Originally the goal was to see every Twins minor league affiliate in one summer. Distances made that trip impractical, so we’ve usually settled for hitting a bunch of different minor league teams in a week or less. We’ve also added some major league games in. My lifetime totals are nine different MLB stadiums and 18 different minor league stadiums. (The worst stadium by far was the Twins former rookie league
Season So Far

QUICK!!! Is Royce Lewis Good?

What is your immediate knee jerk reaction to this question? I am thoroughly confused on the answer. I was absolutely sick of reading articles that stated things like... "Royce was off to s strong start before going on the IL". they would claim stats like .222/.378/.444 triple slash line and a +133 WRC+ to show how good he was.  He was 33% better than the average 3b????? I think of Royce as basically being a dumpster fire with an occasional HR.  he had a strikeout rate of 33%  12K
Deadline Moves.

Revisiting Joe Ryan trade options

The early Twins success is now looking more like a mirage,  Did we really expect a team with a bunch of spare parts on offense would continue to rake? Now 5 games under .500 and being passed by the White Sox, it is clear we will be back in sell mode. I wish I was talking about the team here and not the players. Joe Ryan is obviously the #1 (and possibly only) quality trade chip. One of the best trade partners is lining up to be a perfect fit. The Texas Rangers are currently right at th
March To October

Trevor Larnach is very Comfortable Playing More Outfield

Minnesota Twins: With a new coaching staff Trevor Larnach expressed what he wanted and asked to play Left Field In a quote he said “My whole life I’ve played the outfield. I’ve never felt that I’m just a DH only, but the manager’s going to run his team how he runs his team,” “I’m just going to give him my two cents and my truth, and if he follows suit with that, then great. But I’m going to go down telling him, ‘Look, I’m not just a DH only.’ ” The coaching staff including manager Derek She
Greatest hitting C

Greatest Offensive Season for C in baseball history?

I’ve heard references to Cal Raleigh’s offensive season in 2025 being the greatest offensive season for a Catcher in Baseball History. I respectfully disagree. Cal Raleigh’s batting average, OBP, Slugging percentage and OPS were: Average- .247, OBP- .359, Slg - .589, OPS - .948 26 year old Joe Mauer had the greatest offensive season of any catcher in baseball. Average - .365, OBP - .444 Slg - .587 OPS 1.031 Despite all Raleigh’s Home Runs, Mauer lead in batting aver
General

The Twins Narrative

I’ve seen a lot of articles discussing the Twins where a narrative of the last three seasons seems to be repeated. I don’t believe the narrative is fully accurate. Let’s take a closer look at each season and I’ll explain what I mean. 2023: The narrative is that the Twins won our first playoff series in a long time. Then the Pohlad’s decided to make a massive payroll cut. And it’s left at that with implication being that “Cheap Pohlad's” was the cause. The part that no longer gets mentioned
March To October

Twins Win Green Glove For Earth Day

Minnesota Twins- As many of you might know today is earth day and the twins just won a major award for earth day known as the green glove which means the most waste diversion in 2026! Target field is a great eco friendly environment with great features including Pentair which contains recycled water from underneath the grass in the outfield! The twins are one of the best eco friendly and community innovative teams within all of north American sports this is a really cool award and a good initiat
March To October

Minnesota Twins Re-Instate Royce Lewis from 10 Day IL and make a flurry of roster moved

Good News out of the twins organization Royce Lewis was just reinstated and will play today against the Mets at Citi field. Lewis 26 years of age was heating up a little bit but to a slow start this season slashing 222/378/822. Hopefully this gonna boost the twins chances and bring them back up from .500. This is great news and we all wish Royce well. They're also making 2 huge roster moves bringing up 2 exciting young pitchers in Kendry Rojas and Connor Prielipp. So watch for these following ma
March To October

Introducing All New Interactive C-Gangster Style Game Threads!

Hello Guys! C-Gangster Here! Welcome to the all new fan immersive game thread designed by me for us! It has been an absolute honor to create the game threads here for the past year but now i want to make it about you so introducing the all new fan immersive game thread format with ice breakers and other fun stuff! You can respond to them or don't! It's just a way to make the conversations/experience more fun for you guys! READ IMPORTANT NOTE AT END! Note: One will be posted around
Time to Bring Back CES? He's on Waivers

Time to Bring Back CES? He's 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 looks like he has one option remaining for 2026 and is in AAA now., although it's a little unclear. He's available on waivers and would need a 40 man spot if called up but not now. I say why not? Wagama
Miscellaneous

What's the best logical fallacy?

I started to be snarky and post this to a particular thread that was annoying me.  But I thought twice, and will post it here, in a vacuum. What's The Best Logical Fallacy? A famous Logic professor told me the Appeal to Authority Fallacy is the best. Anyone who doesn't say the Ad Hominem Fallacy is best is a poopyhead. Argument from Repetition Fallacy is the best. Repetition. Argument from. Best. Begging the Question Fallacy is the be
ABS

Confidence in ABS

The Athletic had an article today that some data I had seen before but couldn’t recall. According to MLB the ABS system is 95% confident that the ABS is no more than 0.39 inches from its predicted location. It is 99% confident that it is no more than .48 inches from its predicted location. That makes me wonder if MLB should be overturning calls that are within a half inch or four tenths of an inch. They could be overturning a human call that is actually correct. Perhaps it should be la
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Pitching

Pen Options

I figured with spring training starting and all of the pitcher signings, someone should list all of our potential bullpen candidates going into spring training and lets see how we think the pen will do.  One thing I can say is we definitely have options and depth for this season.  Which relievers do you see making an impact for the club this year? And who would you take north at this point?  Twins Bullpen 2026 Rogers Sands Topa Funderburk Orze Banda Festa
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Baseball Trip

Intro: The Plan

I've mentioned it a few times around here the last year or so, but I will be having a fun little adventure this summer and enjoying a game in every team's home park. I chose this summer so I could also enjoy a World Baseball Classic game or 2. Since I know you all can't get enough of my thoughts, feelings, and opinions on all things baseball, I figured I'd start a blog and share the journey with you. This first entry is to lay out the plan for you so you can see what it's going to look like and
Falvey

Falvey and Degree of Difficulty

Since Falvey and the Twins have parted ways, a narrative is starting to be shared that Falvey wanted out and that the job is no longer the one he signed up for in 2016 and that the degree of difficulty had gone up.  Listening to the most recent episode of Gleeman and the Geek the guys said: “From Falvey’s perspective, the parameters of his job have kept getting worse and worse the past 3 years” The frustrating thing about this is while the payroll has decreased since 2023 and that has
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2026 Intriguing players.

Most intriguing Twins going into 2026

Lopez, Ryan, Ober, Buxton, Keaschall, Abel, Bradley, Jenkins. Just a few names Twins fans are either familiar with or will be by the end of the 2026 season.  The Twins have major league talent. Thats not a doubt. But how much of their 2026 success will come from some players that may not be necessarily familiar to the casual fan, but whose names they hopefully learn quickly. Lets take a look at the most intriguing Twins players heading into this season: 1. Pablo Lopez Ace. Veteran
Twins Offseason Moves

New data analytics

The Twins are in need of a dynamic cultural shift.  While I think the Twins COULD compete this year as currently constituted, I am an eternal optimist.  I believe Lewis can return to his brief MVP type form, I believe Wallner can absolutely MASH, I believe Keaschall can be the real deal, I believe Buxton can be healthy again and have another productive year. that is nearly half of a potent lineup right there. The Twins want to win, but they also need to win back fans. They need to strategic
Twins Offseason Moves

Big Changes Coming Twins Way!!

Having zero inside knowledge, it still seems abundantly clear there were major differences in opinion between Falvey and ownership.  Usually this comes down to profitability vs winning. Just look at the waves of speculation. Speculation can always be wrong, but some speculation was based on facts. Initially It was anticipated that the Twins would move potentially multiple players.  Larnach was expected to have been moved. Larnach is a redundant peice yet we then pivoted to signing him
Twins Moves

Twins Trade INF Edouard Julien and RHP Pierson Ohl for RHP Jace Kaminska

Today the Minnesota Twins announced they traded INF Edouard Julien and RHP Pierson Ohl for RHP Jace Kaminska and Cash Considerations. Kaminska, 24, missed the entirety of the 2025 season due to Tommy John surgery, but had a great season for Low-A Fresno in 2024 recording a 2.78 ERA in 87 1/3 innings of work while striking out 10.7/9IP. Kaminska was drafted in the 10th round of the 2023 MLB Draft out of the University of Nebraska where he had a 4.13 ERA over 15 starts for the Cornhuskers, so
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