https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/page/290/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/top-prospect-battles-lee-jenkins-raya-festa-martin/With the 2024 season on the horizon, many national top prospect lists are starting to be revealed. So, which Twins prospects have the best tools? MLB Pipeline recently surveyed baseball executives to discover which prospects had the best tools in various categories. Twins names littered the...15546Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:30:37 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/a-month-by-month-retrospective-of-joe-mauers-2009-mvp-season-r15567/One season doesn’t define a Hall of Fame career. For Joe Mauer, his 2009 season was one of the best in history for a catcher. What made that season so special, and how did he fare from month to month? The 2009 season was a crossroads for Joe Mauer. His years of team control were quickly dwin...15567Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:13:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/free-agency-target-aaron-hicks-center-field/When the Minnesota Twins kick off their 2024 regular season, they will do so with a good deal of optimism regarding star center fielder Byron Buxton. Again returning from an offseason surgery, the hope is that the aching knee of the Georgia native will allow him to play the field. If that doesn’...15528Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:04:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/table-setter-1-22-24-josh-hader-robert-stephenson-joe-mauer-hof-call/There are no weekends left before Twins Fest. There are only three before pitchers and catchers report to Fort Myers. It's time to wake up now, baseball executives. You're going to be late for school. Maybe that's unjustifiably unkind. The league isn't totally inert. Last Friday, the Astros...15580Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:24:45 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/could-rhys-hoskins-be-the-twins-splashy-free-agency-signing-r15574/With money presumably coming soon from a new regional broadcasting deal, could this right-handed hitting power bat be the Twins' signature offseason signing? In a recent article published on Twins Daily, writer Peter Labuza laid out how court proceedings involving Diamond Sports Group, a sub...15574Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:31:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/greatest-twins-teams-of-all-time-1969-r15572/Join us in argument as we count down the greatest Twins teams in history, as voted on by the Twins Daily writers. Today: the fourth-ranked team. Overview Let’s get this out of the way now. There’s one man synonymous with this season: a certain Alfred Manuel Martin Jr., commonly known as “B...15572Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:15:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/torii-hunters-hall-of-fame-case-hinges-on-jekyll-and-hyde-career-r15564/Twins fans have rightfully given attention to Joe Mauer on the current Hall of Fame ballot, but another fan favorite continues to garner support. Torii Hunter’s resume is divided into two distinct parts, which make his case tougher to evaluate. Voters for the National Baseball Hall of Fame u...15564Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:20:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/digging-into-the-data-of-the-cedar-rapids-rotation-part-2-r15553/A group of four pitchers made waves for the Twins farm system in 2023. Cory Lewis, C.J. Culpepper, Andrew Morris, and Zebby Matthews all enjoyed success at both Fort Myers and Cedar Rapids. What are some of the attributes and numbers behind their success? Let's dig in.   For whatever th...15553Sun, 21 Jan 2024 13:23:36 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/2024-the-joe-ryan-renaissance-r15560/Joe Ryan’s 2023 season fell apart due to injury after a dominant start. Can better health and a few adjustments help him sustain that success throughout 2024? Joe Ryan had a 3.70 ERA through his first 107 innings in 2023 before that number ballooned to 6.09 in 54 2/3 second-half innings. A g...15560Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:20:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/how-the-twins-handled-the-shift-ban-in-year-one-r15503/Last season brought some significant rule changes to Major League Baseball. We saw pitch clocks and newly enlarged bases. We also saw a ban on infield shifts, for the first time in the sport's history. How did the Minnesota Twins handle it? When Rob Manfred announced that MLB would ban the s...15503Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:17:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/lets-look-back-at-the-career-of-swingman-brian-duensing-r15568/Brian Duensing was a versatile swingman in Minnesota for years, bouncing between the bullpen and rotation multiple times. The Minnesota Twins drafted Brian Duensing in the 2005 MLB Draft in round three. He had an impressive career at the University of Nebraska, where he became known for his...15568Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:11:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/stormy-skies-ahead-amazon-audacy-and-the-future-of-twins-broadcasting-r15566/The Twins might have finally found their broadcasting partner for 2024, but fans should be asking whether reuniting with Bally—and joining up with Amazon—will improve the situation that cable created, or worsen it.  It was the bankruptcy court proceeding heard round the world. The worries of...15566Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:14:00 +0000