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There has been a lot of talk all year about MLB Umpiring. I have umpired baseball from little league to high school to softball. I personally like umpiring as it is as close to the game you can get without being in the stands. You are also part of the game, and a game that most umpires really love. You never want to make a mistake as an umpire because as a player you rely on what is right or wrong, and work hard at it. All umpires are going to make mistakes, I would say no umpire is trying
With the Twins recent resurgence there is a renewed hope throughout Twins Territory that the 2012 season is not completely hopeless. Winning ten out of their last thirteen games and playing in a weak Central division definitely helps to build that hope but there is a possibility that we are just being teased into believing in the 2012 lineup. After all eight of those wins have come against teams below .500. If that possibility becomes reality it’s more than likely that come trade deadline you
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aMemKtf968U/T9f-NpEqI0I/AAAAAAAAAZ0/po5xFNvjzMY/s400/Baseball+025.JPG [Originally published with more pictures at Twins Fan From Afar] For the second consecutive year, my wife and I made the flight to Minnesota for Justin Morneau's Casino Night. It's a charity event for the Arthritis Foundation -- specifically, juvenile arthritis (Justin's niece suffers from juvenile arthritis). It's part of the Twins week of hope. Instead of hitting up a couple games at Target Field
With the injury to Rosario what are the Odds that Niko Goodrum or Max Kepler get a taste of the Midwest League? Or how about dropping Levi Micheal back to see if he can get some confidence in his game? (I know the last one would not happen, but they have done it to Benson and Parmalee.)
The Twins found themselves in quite the battle at Target Field on Tuesday night with the Phillies in town for some interleague action. There was plenty of offense for both clubs as the Twins scored runs in four of the first five innings of the game. Early home runs were hit by Denard Span and Trevor Plouffe to help the Twins get the lead but it was hardly over from that point. By the time Matt Capps entered in the ninth inning, there were already a combined 31 hits on the board for the Phillie
So, it's June 12th and I still have not completed my off-season prospect lists. The excuses are many. I'm married with a child in sports. I have dogs, my house needs work, I have a busy new job, PuckettsPond, etc... The fact remains, I posted prospect #4 on April 24th.... and that is even quite late. Next year, I might be better off not doing individual profiles for each of the top 15. With the Twins recently completing their draft and getting their picks signed, I need to get this done. Guys li
With the deadline being moved up by a month, we've seen many draft picks come to terms and report. I usually take the week following the draft to gather information and then make a (somewhat educated) guess at what draft picks will sign and which will return or go to college. (Going to have to shorten that time frame up in the future.) Now that the draft has been shortened by 10 rounds, it is hard to use precedence to set a number on how many players the team will sign. I'm guessing it's go
This article was originally posted at Knuckleballsblog.com. I’m kinda confused. I am getting the overwhelming sense that far too many so-called Twins “fans” are actually rooting against the team right now. Why? Because they’re apparently afraid that if the Twins continue to win games at their recent rate, they’ll pull themselves up out of the AL Central Division cellar and perhaps even within shouting distance of whatever sorry excuse for a Division Leader happens to be sitting atop the Divisi
Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ---- Here is this week's installment: Who would have thought that at this point this season, Trevor Plouffe would have higher OPS+ (110 vs 107) and more HRs (9 vs 7) than Michael Cuddyer. Yet, again, the similarities were too good to ignore last November It is fairly astonishing, but every Twins' position player now, other than the middle infielders, has an OPS+ higher than 100. The only 3 pitchers with more than a strikeout an inning
Original post from North Dakota Twins Fan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Another Tuesday morning means that later tonight I will be posting about all of the minor league action for the Twins farm system. There are plenty of exciting things happening at each level of the Twins organization so make sure you are checking out the nightly updates on the Twins Daily homepage. It's only two weeks until the short season leagues start in the minor leagues so there will be a ton of action to follow across the Twins system
[TABLE=class: tr-caption-container] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ByzSY1D37Ow/T9cz_Ban5zI/AAAAAAAAAY8/e1XFQapmqd4/s200/Hermsen.bmp [TD=class: tr-caption]B.J. Hermsen, perhaps the MVP for the Rock Cats this past month [/TD] [/TABLE] [Originally published at Twins Fan From Afar] After winning 2 of 3 on the road at Erie over the weekend, the Rock Cats earned a much needed day off, though much of it was probably spent on the team bus headed back to Connecticut. Beginning tonight, the team i
It was the end of the 2002 season. Jim Thome was finally a free agent after years of torturing the Twins. (And particularly, torturing Rick Reed. Good lord, did Big Jim take it to Reed. Thome hit more home runs (9) off of Reed than any other pitcher, even though he only had 27 at-bats against him. Think about that. He hit .333 JUST IN HOME RUNS against Rick Reed. Lordy.) Anyway, Thome was a free agent. As a blogger who is asked these sort of things all the time, I must have received the questi
While the All-Star Break is still about a month away, it is usually the best indicator of whether or not teams will be competing for a spot in the postseason and whether teams will be buyers or sellers at the deadline. The Twins, while having gotten out to another abysmal start due (this year, anyway) to horrendous starting pitching and the Twins' complete lack of any kind of hitting, with RISP or otherwise, are again using a weak schedule in the months of May, June, and hopefully July to give u
2013 Roster (not in any particular order): Bullpen: Burton Perkins Duensing Swarzak Guerra Slama Burnett Starting Pitching: Scott Diamond Hendriks Blackburn P.J. Walters (?)/ FA Pitcher FA Pitcher Starting Lineup: Span Revere Mauer Morneau Willingham Doumit Plouffe Dozier Carroll Bench: Wilkin Ramirez Butera Mastroianni Parmelee Valencia could be in this lineup if he figures things out on offense and defense. I am assuming that the Twins trade Liriano and Pavano if they
Starting Pitching- Ryan Dempster Erik Bedard Scott Diamond Kyle Gibson Liam Hendriks Bull Pen Brian Duensing- long reliever Anthony Swarzak- long reliever Alex Burnett- middle reliever Deolis Guerra- middle reliever Jared Burton- RH setup man Glen Perkins- LH setup man Lester Oliveros- closer Starting Lineup LF- Josh Willingham CF- Denard Span RF- Ben Revere 1B- Justin Morneau 2B- Brian Dozier SS- Trevor Plouffe 3B- Danny Valencia C- Joe Mauer DH- Ryan Doumit Bench Jamey Carroll Chris
It was the end of the 2002 season. Jim Thome was a free agent after years of torturing the Twins. (And particularly, Rick Reed. Good lord, did Big Jim take it to Rick Reed. Did you know Reed still ranks as the guy that gave up the most home runs (9) to Thome, even though he only had 27 at-bats against him? Think about that. He hit .333 JUST IN HOME RUNS against Rick Reed. Lordy.) Anyway, Thome was a free agent and as a blogger who is asked these sort of things all the time, I must have rece
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