https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/page/1048/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/sano-ain39t-harmon-r3274/Not long ago, Baseball America rated Miguel Sano as a Top 3 prospect in all of baseball. Not long ago, Miguel Sano was the star of a documentary about baseball in the Dominican. Not long ago, Miguel Sano was the "Next Big Thing" with power comparable to Harmon Killebrew. But you know what? Miguel...3274Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:15:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/what-are-the-twins-getting-in-tim-stauffer-r3273/Shortly before Christmas break, the Minnesota Twins signed free agent pitcher Tim Stauffer to one-year, $2.2 million. If you happened to check Fangraphs.com on the 32-year-old righthander, gazing upon his average velocity may have been as exciting as unwrapping another pair of socks. Low 90s? Agai...3273Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:57:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/stauffer-signing-slightly-improves-staff-r3272/The Twins' signing of veteran right-hander Tim Stauffer slipped under the radar to a large degree as a fairly minor acquisition that fell amidst a holiday week. But in adding the 32-year-old, the team is ponying up a couple million in guaranteed money to address a unit that already seemed somewhat...3272Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:35:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/projecting-payroll-2015-r3271/When the Twins opened Target Field in 2010, they did so with a $97 million payroll. This was the highest payroll the Twins have had by a whopping $25M. They broke $100M the next year by spending $113M and fell back to just a shade over $100M in 2012. However, payroll fell to the mid-$80 million ra...3271Sat, 27 Dec 2014 21:50:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/minnesota-twins-sign-reliever-tim-stauffer-r3270/Those Twins fans hoping that the last spot in the Twins bullpen this year might go to a failed ex-starter may have gotten their wish today. It’s just that that failed ex-starter was with the Padres. The Minnesota Twins announced that they signed right-hander Tim Stauffer to a one-year, $2.2 milion...3270Tue, 23 Dec 2014 23:13:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/where-are-we-now-where-are-we-going-r3269/On Monday, the Minnesota Twins locked up starter Phil Hughes through the 2019 season with a three-year contract extension. As the New Year approaches, it is interesting to look at where the Twins are by position for 2015 and the future. Let’s take a quick look. FOR STARTERS, THE STARTERS Let’s st...3269Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:12:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/no-juice-podcast-35-the-festivus-baseball-episode-r3268/On this week's No Juice Podcast, Dan Anderson and Parker Hageman kicked off their first ever holiday episode by discussing the Twins center field situation, Jose Berrios playing in the winter league, and then they had the Airing of the Grievances. Click to listen below. Topics also include worst...3268Tue, 23 Dec 2014 07:23:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/twins-extend-phil-hughes-r3265/Mark Feinsand from the New York Daily News is reporting this morning that the Twins and Phil Hughes have agreed to a three-year contract extension worth $42 million. The contract could keep Hughes in a Twins uniform through the 2019 season. Hughes came to the Twins a year ago on a three year cont...3265Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:17:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/mientkiewicz-draws-key-assignment-r3264/It was easy enough to see coming, but the Twins made it official last week that Doug Mientkiewicz will move up and manage the club's Double-A affiliate in Chattanooga next year. The organization clearly thinks highly of Mientkiewicz, as they interviewed him multiple times for the big-league manage...3264Mon, 22 Dec 2014 04:52:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/gleeman-amp-the-geek-ep-175-ranking-rotations-amp-buying-bars-r3266/Aaron and John visit Mac’s Industrial Sports Bar and speculate on the Minnesota Twins remaining offseason plans, grill owner Michael Curry about how he bought his first bar, review the Twins new minor league coaching assignments, praise bad decisions on Christmas night, rank the Twins rotation ver...3266Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:40:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/twins-non-roster-spring-training-invites-r3263/On Friday afternoon, the Twins announced that they have invited 18 non-roster players to major league spring training. Among others, top prospects such as JO Berrios, Byron Buxton, Tyler Duffey and Taylor Rogers will report to big league camp. The Twins announced today that six pitchers will be t...3263Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:07:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/can-aaron-hicks-be-fixed-r3262/One of the more critical openings the Minnesota Twins will have this year is in center field. If all goes well, that job will be Aaron Hicks’ to borrow. What are the odds that he meets expectations in 2015? The offseason did not start off well for Hicks: In November he was released from his Venez...3262Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:40:00 +0000