https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/report-from-the-fort-sunshine-skepticism-and-a-new-pohlad-presence-r19820/FORT MYERS - Minnesota Twins baseball returned on Friday night, though it won’t count even in spring training’s Grapefruit League standings. The Twins beat the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers baseball team, with Zebby Matthews starting and Cole Sands following him on the mound.  Go...19820Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:57:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/trevor-larnach-accident-hitter-and-whats-gone-wrong-with-twins-player-development-r19003/Few hitters in baseball have changed as clearly and concretely as Trevor Larnach has this season. That transformation began last year, when Larnach learned to slightly dampen his whiff rate on breaking and offspeed pitches by getting slightly more aggressive within the strike zone. It was last y...19003Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:04:31 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/one-weeks-worth-of-evidence-that-carlos-correa-needs-to-move-to-third-base-r18620/It was not a good week for Carlos Correa at shortstop. In fact, it hasn't been a good month, and (despite a few strong plays and his ironclad reputation) it hasn't been a good year, either. At 30 years old, the Twins' star shortstop is looking less and less like one—a shortstop, that is, althoug...18620Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:05:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/how-willi-castro-is-back-in-all-star-form-propping-up-struggling-twins-lineup-r18528/We've never seen Willi Castro quite like this. Even last year, en route to his first-ever All-Star Game, he wasn't producing the way he's done it this season. In 197 plate appearances, Castro is batting .290/.365/.483, with seven home runs. More impressively, perhaps, a bunch of that production...18528Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:12:32 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/pablo-l%C3%B3pez-saw-flashes-of-what-move-across-rubber-could-do-for-him-but-has-come-home-again-r18391/Last month, I wrote—well, in fact, I wrote twice—about Pablo López moving from the first-base side of the pitching rubber to the middle of it. It's always interesting and valuable to know when pitchers make such moves, and López himself had a lot to say about why he was trying out the move at th...18391Wed, 28 May 2025 16:27:58 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/whats-wrong-with-carlos-correa-at-the-plate-thanks-to-new-statcast-data-we-have-new-insight-r18355/Carlos Correa isn't right at the plate. This much, you already know. Last year, though his season was effectively cut in half by plantar fasciitis, the Twins' superstar shortstop batted .310/.388/.517, earning his third All-Star nod and powering the lineup until his feet betrayed him and he had...18355Thu, 22 May 2025 16:39:18 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/bullpen-depth-fueled-twins-long-winning-streak-cole-sands-is-the-embodiment-of-that-depth-r18336/The Twins finally lost on Sunday, for the first time since May 2 in Boston. Four of the five runs they allowed were let in by starter Zebby Matthews, though, so the team still boasts a 0.89 reliever ERA since May 3. That fortnight and change, in which they've gone 13-1, has been characterized by...18336Mon, 19 May 2025 17:05:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/doing-95-in-your-blind-spot-the-pitch-twins-pitchers-use-to-make-opposing-hitters-cover-a-bigger-zone-r18190/18190Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:11:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/shades-of-gray-how-the-twins-most-extreme-defensive-alignments-differ-from-other-teams-r18139/Beginning in 2023, Major League Baseball required each team to have four players (other than the pitcher and catcher) on the infield when each pitch was thrown, and for two of them to be on each side of second base. That rule has eliminated one subset of tailored defensive alignments, but the Tw...18139Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:17:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/the-secret-ingredient-that-gives-pablo-l%C3%B3pezs-new-change-its-kick-a-new-position-and-a-new-angle-r18064/The Twins' ace righthander has twice as many changeups as he had when the 2024 season ended. After a slight but important change of position on the rubber, he's hoping to give hitters twice as many problems, too. Say what he will about meditation, the nature of pressure in athletic endeavors...18064Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:02:41 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/ryan-jeffers-changes-everything-with-two-strikes-and-it-works-beautifully-r17973/We all get into bad situations sometimes. The surest path to happiness is to make the best of those bad spots, and the Twins' catcher is good at that. On Sunday night, Baseball Savant rolled out their latest set of new data, offering us a new kind of insight into baseball. The numbers indica...17973Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:03:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/watch-out-world-reliever-mode-louis-varland-has-a-jhoan-duran-caliber-curveball-r17837/As we wrestle with his ever-changing name, maybe we need to try 'Luke' next—because this version of his curveball is going to hang a lot of new Ks. Whether he and the Twins are ready to say so out loud or not, Louis Varland is now a reliever, in full. He was the (count 'em) fifth pitcher int...17837Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:08:01 +0000