https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/page/3/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/offseason-handbook-time-to-choose-between-christian-v%C3%A1zquez-and-ryan-jeffers-r17335/The historic hiccup that is the Twins' singularly even distribution of catcher playing time has to end, now, for the sake of the team. Which guy should they keep? Welcome to the 2025 Offseason Handbook! This year, we’re offering the format online only through our Caretakers program. The Offs...17335Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:06:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/offseason-handbook-an-attempt-to-objectively-evaluate-rocco-baldelli-r17332/Research indicates managers don’t have as much impact on outcomes as you might think. Let’s evaluate how Minnesota's skipper's work stacks up in the modern game. Welcome to the 2025 Offseason Handbook! This year, we’re offering the format online only through our Caretakers program. The Offse...17332Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:12:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/offseason-handbook-plugging-the-holes-in-the-2025-minnesota-twins-outfield-r17330/For the first time in almost a decade, a certain handsome German won't be taking up a post in the Twins' outfield next year. Add to his departure the team's perpetual need for high-quality fallback plans in center field, and there's a big opening the team needs to fill this winter. Welcome t...17330Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:19:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/the-twins-didnt-bunt-at-all-because-the-twins-couldnt-bunt-at-all-r17317/The Twins were uniquely bad at bunting in 2024, but they also might have been uniquely good at bunting. You probably know that the Twins weren’t big bunters in 2024. But did you know that they had just two bunt hits all season? Two bunts! You can count them on one hand, even if you’re a lobs...17317Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:11:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/offseason-handbook-searching-for-energy-guys-across-the-league-r17306/The Twins have plenty of guys who are good hitters. As the Yankees showed by giving themselves an atomic wedgie on baseball's biggest stage, however, sometimes you just need some ballplayers. Here are a few who might makes sense for the Twins. Welcome to the 2025 Offseason Handbook! This yea...17306Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:12:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/2025-offseason-handbook-should-2025-twins-starting-rotation-be-five-starters-or-six-r17321/It's not your father's starting rotation. No one is making 40 starts in a season anymore. Should anyone even plan to make 30? Welcome to the 2025 Offseason Handbook! This year, we’re offering the format online only through our Caretakers program. The Offseason Handbook is a comprehensive loo...17321Tue, 05 Nov 2024 12:26:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/offseason-handbook-brooks-lee-was-here-can-twins-pin-their-hopes-for-2025-on-him-r17291/After a humbling rookie season, how much should the Minnesota Twins bet on and rely upon Brooks Lee in 2025?  Welcome to the 2025 Offseason Handbook! This year, we’re offering the format online only through our Caretakers program. The Offseason Handbook is a comprehensive look at what challe...17291Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:13:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/2024-25-minnesota-twins-offseason-handbook-the-payroll-the-players-the-decisions-r17320/Welcome to the 2024-25 Twins Daily Offseason Handbook! We're going to be running a special series of articles tackling big offseason topics in exceptional depth, all week, so keep checking back and sign up to become a TD Caretaker. In this first installment, let's get into the key questions faci...17320Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:14:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/judges-muff-coles-boner-and-six-games-of-world-series-in-a-five-game-bag-r17308/For as long as there have been World Series, there have been occasional complaints that they're sloppy. We should expect that. The crispest baseball of the season can't come at the end of a 200-game schedule, in varying climates and amid a media circus. But extraordinarily compelling baseball st...17308Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:11:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/an-end-of-season-update-on-trevor-larnachs-soft-stuff-struggles-r17279/Trevor Larnach improved against soft stuff in 2024, but he still saw more of it than just about any other player. Ever. Let’s take a moment to make sure that we appreciate how good a season Trevor Larnach just had. Before the 2024 season, Larnach had played in 188 big-league games over three...17279Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:34:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/its-all-about-pain-tolerance-the-world-series-at-its-first-change-of-coasts-r17288/The latest twist in this World Series, already as loaded with drama as such an entity can be so early in the proceedings, is that the wounded superstar intends to play through a daunting injury. And that's not even the biggest headline, at the moment. All year, Aaron Judge was one of the bes...17288Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:18:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/caretakers/you-cant-unring-a-bell-world-series-game-2-r17284/The Dodgers have a commanding lead in the World Series—except, they now face the prospect of a cross-country trip into the toughest place for visitors to play postseason baseball, their pitching is wearing thin, and the best player in baseball might be gone from the top of their lineup. You...17284Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:13:00 +0000