https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/page/982/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/top-ten-longest-tenured-twins-players-r4443/Brian Duensing became a free agent this offseason and last week he signed with the Royals. He had been one of the longest-tenured Twins players. So as spring training starts, we will today update our list of the players in the Minnesota Twins organization that have been around the longest. It’s in...4443Wed, 24 Feb 2016 02:39:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/the-twins39-cheapness-isn39t-the-problem-it39s-the-symptom-r4445/On Monday, Bill Parker wrote on this very site about the Twins’ payroll, and about how complaints about the Twins’ relatively low payroll never seem to get past the surface, saying, He demands that we “show our work” and implies, essentially, that the Pohlads opening up their wallets wouldn’t have...4445Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:43:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/park-set-as-twins39-opening-day-dh-or-is-he-r4442/The pitchers and catchers for the Minnesota Twins have finally reported to spring training and position players are already filtering into the Fort Myers camp in advance of their mandatory reporting day later this week. The Twins will open their season in Baltimore on April 4, but from all that’s...4442Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:27:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/is-the-twins-system-broken-r4441/An annual ritual for many baseball fans is the release of the Baseball Prospectus Handbook. It has in-depth coverage for every MLB franchise and commentary on almost 2,000 players. For some fans, this is the "Baseball Bible" for the coming season as they try to gain an advantage in the fantasy bas...4441Tue, 23 Feb 2016 04:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/on-the-twins39-cheapness-and-showing-your-work-r4440/I want to talk about the Twins and payroll, and how we talk about the Twins’ payroll. It’s been about a month since Jack Moore wrote the excellent and scathing The Minnesota Small-Market Con over at Baseball Prospectus Milwaukee. The points it makes are numerous and wide-ranging -- the most import...4440Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:15:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/episode-236-the-worst-shape-of-their-lives-r4438/Aaron and John talk about Kurt Suzuki vs. John Ryan Murphy, Ricky Nolasco being the fly in the rotation's ointment, how you can win Twins season tickets thanks to the Minnesota Corn Growers, Miguel Sano's non-weight loss, Aaron's cat obsession with our friends at Iron Door Pub, Baseball Prospectus...4438Mon, 22 Feb 2016 04:16:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/the-last-leaf-r4436/4436Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:42:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/dreaming-of-200-home-runs-r4435/With the shift from power hitting toward power pitching that baseball has seen over the past couple decades, it has become quite a bit more rare to see offenses pile up 200 home runs. It was a feat accomplished by 11 teams in 2000 and by only five in 2015. To find the last Twins squad that went de...4435Fri, 19 Feb 2016 04:43:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/a-few-rays-of-hope-in-pecota39s-depressing-2016-twins-projections-r4433/If you’re a pessimist like me, you look at the PECOTA projections released by Baseball Prospectus yesterdayand you see a confirmation of everything you’ve suspected this offseason. You see a team who has done nothing to build on its surprising run in 2015 and, in turn, has slipped to the bottom of...4433Wed, 17 Feb 2016 07:03:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/charting-the-competition-cleveland-indians-r4432/For the past five years, this team has been there, lurking. The Indians have won 80 or more games in four of those seasons, almost constantly remaining within reach of first place, but all that this stretch has yielded is one single postseason game – a loss to Tampa Bay in the 2013 wild card. Cle...4432Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:14:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/charting-the-competition-chicago-white-sox-r4431/Last year, the White Sox went 76-86, finishing fourth in the AL Central with the league's lowest-scoring offense. Their offseason was pretty quiet, featuring the addition of third baseman Todd Frazier but little else of note. With Jeff Samardzija departing as a free agent, it appeared that the Sox...4431Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:50:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/twins-roster-projection-20-pre-spring-training-edition-r4430/About a month ago, I posted an article asking Where Are We Now in which I tried to project the Twins Opening Day roster. Not a lot has happened since then, but being at Twins Fest, trying to read between the lines of notes and quotes from players and front office personnel, I thought it would be g...4430Tue, 16 Feb 2016 03:41:00 +0000