https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/page/1046/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/ricky-nolasco-back-to-the-future-r3306/For Ricky Nolasco, January 1st has a much different tenor in 2015 than it did in 2014. A year ago, Ricky had recently signed the largest free agent contract in Twins history (though that's not saying much) with the expectation of being a veteran presence to help stabilize a rotation that was in sh...3306Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/the-best-25-gms-in-history-23-john-hart-r3304/This post is part of a series in which Mark Armour and I count down the 25 best GMs in history, cross-posting from our blog. For an explanation, please see this post. For the 32 seasons before John Hart was promoted to general manager in September 1991, the Cleveland Indians never finished closer...3304Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/on-phil-hughes-and-regression-r3303/Phil Hughes’ first season with the Minnesota Twins was pretty damn good. So much so that the Twins tore up his old contract and presented him with a longer, more fruitful agreement; compensating Hughes closer to what his Fangraphs.com value suggests his performance was worth in 2014. Nobody forced...3303Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:31:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/the-best-25-gms-in-history-24-john-quinn-r3301/This post is part of a series in which Mark Armour and Dan Levitt count down the 25 best GMs in history, crossposting from our blog. For an explanation, please see this post. (This one is by Mark) Theo Epstein recently said that “everybody thinks they can be a GM or president of baseball operation...3301Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:20:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/how-secure-is-suzuki39s-starting-job-r3302/When you look up and down the Twins' projected starting lineup for 2015, there are a number of potential weak spots. Neither Danny Santana nor Kennys Vargas is a lock to maintain their stellar rookie performances. Joe Mauer is a giant question mark at this point. We still don't really know who's g...3302Wed, 14 Jan 2015 05:39:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/arbitrary-predictions-r3300/On Tuesday around Major League Baseball salary arbitration cases will be filed. On Friday, teams and players will exchange numbers. However, don’t be surprised if many of the arbitration-eligible players agree to terms before Friday. Six Twins players were offered arbitration last month, so here i...3300Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/gleeman-amp-the-geek-ep-177-jacque-jones-and-meeting-the-in-laws-r3299/Aaron and John meet at Mason's and ramble about Jacque Jones career and his upcoming appearance at the Twins Daily Winter Meltdown, Joe Mauer's contract, crying babies, a mailbag and meeting the in-laws. You can listen by downloading us from iTunes, Stitcher or find it at GleemanAndTheGeek.com. Or...3299Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:17:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/the-best-25-gms-in-history-25-andy-macphail-r3297/This post is part of a series in which Mark Armour and I count down the 25 best GMs in history, crossposting from our blog. For an explanation, please see this post. Andy MacPhail had big shoes to fill. Both his father Lee and his grandfather Larry are in the Hall of Fame as baseball executives. W...3297Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/no-juice-podcast-38-marney-gellner-r3298/On this week's No Juice Podcast, Dan Anderson and Parker Hageman are joined at Panino Brothers in Eden Prairie by Fox Sports North host/reporter Marney Gellner. They discuss the Ron Gardenhire era, how to deal with teams that are constantly losing, and Marney tells Twins Daily community members wh...3298Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:21:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/the-best-25-gms-in-history-intro-r3294/This is the first entry in a blog associated with the publication of In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball, coming out this spring and coauthored by Mark Armour and me (Dan Levitt). We are cross-posting this from our blog at the book's website. Thanks to the Twins...3294Sat, 10 Jan 2015 21:10:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/rocking-the-boat-r3292/Firing a manager in the middle of a postseason run seems like an unlikely scenario for a baseball organization however the Puerto Rican team, Indios de Mayaguez, have fired their manager and Minnesota Twins’ Kennys Vargas may have played a role. On January 5, after going 1-2 to start the round-ro...3292Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:24:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/projecting-2015-value-for-youngsters-r3290/Near the end of last season, the Twins featured a trio of players on the team's magazine cover and dubbed them "The First Wave." Danny Santana, Kennys Vargas, and Oswaldo Arcia all made big impacts at the big league level. Even though Arcia played in almost 100 games in 2013, he's actually the you...3290Thu, 08 Jan 2015 00:35:00 +0000