https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/page/979/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/beating-vegas-the-tampa-bay-rays-r4496/Here's your second chance to show us you can beat Vegas and win a Harry’s Razor starter kit!The Rays find themselves stuck. Stuck between good and bad. Stuck between prospects and suspects. But mostly stuck in a stadium that is strangling any fan interest, revenue opportunities and competive hopes...4496Mon, 14 Mar 2016 23:29:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/twins-option-seven-players-to-minor-league-camp-r4494/FT. MYERS, Fla - Following Sunday’s game at Hammond Stadium, the Twins announced that five players had been reassigned to minor league camp. On Monday morning, Paul Molitor and Terry Ryan informed seven more players that their time in big league camp this year was complete. The Twins optioned outf...4494Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:57:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/an-exclusive-pitching-club-the-twins-dominate-r4490/If Phil Hughes had managed to throw 6 2/3 more innings than he did in 2015, he would almost certainly have joined Bartolo Colon as just the 15th and 16th pitchers in baseball history on a strange -- not necessarily good or bad, but certainly strange -- list: pitchers who pitched enough innings to...4490Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:01:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/twins-appear-to-be-all-in-on-buxton-r4493/Minnesota's 2015 season concluded with Byron Buxton stranded at third base. He had reached second on a two-base error to open the ninth inning and moved up on a groundout, but came short of scoring when Miguel Sano flied out to end the game and the season. The Twins went home. The Royals, who beat...4493Mon, 14 Mar 2016 01:55:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/beating-vegas-the-baltimore-orioles-r4492/Show us you can beat Vegas and you can win a Harry’s Razor starter kit!The Orioles entered the last two months of 2016 as a Wild Card favorite - and completely folded. The slide started with a four-game sweep at the hands of the Twins, led to a 11-18 August, and it took a hot (and meaningless) las...4492Mon, 14 Mar 2016 01:02:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/gleeman-amp-the-geek-ep-239-r4491/Aaron and John meet up at the new New Bohemia Lake St and discussed: - the Twins giving Byron Buxton every chance to win the center field job - the limited roster battles the Twins have in spring training - how you can win a pair of 20-game Twins season tickets from the MN Corn Growers - how Carlo...4491Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:49:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/twins-reassign-five-players-to-minor-league-camp-r4489/The Minnesota Twins announced their first batch of cuts from spring training this afternoon. They reassigned five players to minor league camp. Infielders Engelb Vielma, Reynaldo Rodriguez, Heiker Meneses, catcher Alex Swim, and right-handed pitcher Jake Reed will report to the minor league facili...4489Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:37:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/sunday-spring-game-notes-r4488/The Minnesota Twins and Baltimore Orioles are about to begin a spring training game at Hammond Stadium. It is 82 degrees and sunny. I talked to a few players in the clubhouse this morning before heading over to the minor league facilities for a couple of hours. After taking about 180 photos yester...4488Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/long-travel-and-baseball-day-twins-notes-r4487/FORT MYERS, Fla. - It’s been a LONG day, but at the end of it, I got to hang out at Hammond Stadium and watch a little baseball today. That is never a bad thing. Over the next eight or nine days, be sure to check out my reports and stories from Ft. Myers. To get started I’m just going to post a co...4487Sat, 12 Mar 2016 02:12:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/ricky-nolasco-waiting-to-blow-up-r4486/We may not have seen the worst of Ricky Nolasco yet. Prior to the 2014 MLB season, the Minnesota Twins and Terry Ryan realized they had a deficiency. Coming off of yet another 9-loss season, the team's starting pitching was nowhere close to what it needed to be to compete. The answer was to scour...4486Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:55:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/trending-march-10-r4484/Every Thursday morning, you can count on coming here to get a snapshot of which players are trending up or trending down within the organization. Obviously statistics will play a part, but a week is a small sample and spring training stats are… well, pretty pointless. Anecdotal and observational a...4484Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/looking-forward-by-looking-back-2012-draft-r4485/The 2012 MLB draft was very interesting for the Minnesota Twins and their fans. They had the second overall pick after their first of four straight 90-loss seasons. They had a couple of extra picks due to the loss of Michael Cuddyer to free agency. They had six of the first 100 picks. It was an op...4485Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:59:00 +0000