https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/1014/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-and-the-geek-ep-180-pitching-fatherhood-and-drunken-rappers-r3359/http://traffic.libsyn.com/gleemangeek/Pitching_Fatherhood_and_Drunken_Rappers.mp33359Mon, 09 Feb 2015 02:34:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-best-25-gms-in-history-6-john-schuerholz-r3357/excepting the truncated 1994 strike season, and five pennants. Schuerholz displayed an uncanny knack for retooling his team, knowing which holes could be filled by integrating prospects and which needed outside solutions. A Baltimore native, Schuerholz left his junior high school teaching position...3357Sun, 08 Feb 2015 04:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/pace-of-play-and-the-twins-r3342/Baseball wasn't meant to be this way. Recent years have seen an increase in the number of pitches batters are taking, pitching changes, mound visits and time between pitches. In just 10 years baseball players have added 29 minutes, 11 seconds of dead time per game while scoring 13.3 percent fewer...3342Sat, 07 Feb 2015 19:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-best-25-gms-in-history-7-buzzie-bavasi-r3352/filled with talented men like owner Walter O’Malley, farm director Fresco Thompson, scouting director Al Campanis, manager Walter Alston, the game’s best scouts and instructors and many of its best players. But O’Malley hired Bavasi to run the Dodgers and generally left him alone to do so for 18 y...3352Fri, 06 Feb 2015 03:56:17 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/forum-friday-02062015-r3356/If you have suggestions on which threads to highlight each week, shoot me a message or email me at brock@twindaily.com by Thursday evening and I’ll add it to the following day’s article. If you’re not familiar with how MinnCentric sites operate, we use a universal login system. If you have created...3356Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:20:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/sizing-up-the-competition-cleveland-indians-r3355/2014 Record: 85-77 Runs Scored/Allowed: 669 / 653 Key Additions: Gavin Floyd (SP), Brandon Moss (1B/OF) Key Departures: Asdrubal Cabrera (SS), Justin Masterson (SP) Why They'll Be Better It was a quiet offseason for general manager Chris Antonetti, but that's not such a bad thing as the Indians ke...3355Fri, 06 Feb 2015 05:42:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-best-25-gms-in-history-extra-calvin-griffith-r3353/.When Calvin Griffith formally took over the Washington Senators in late 1955 after the death of his uncle Clark, he became the last of the family-owners to act as his own general manager. After more than half a century, many writers have a tendency to wax nostalgic about these owner-operators. In...3353Fri, 06 Feb 2015 04:10:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/5th-starter-candidate-alex-meyer-r3354/The Background Alex Meyer was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 20th round of the 2008 MLB Draft. He was offered $2 million but chose to go pitch at the University of Kentucky. Three years later, he received that $2 million bonus anyway. He was drafted by the Nationals with their first round pi...3354Fri, 06 Feb 2015 03:41:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-25-best-gms-in-history-8-harry-dalton-r3349/When Dalton went to work for the Orioles in late 1953, he was a 25-year-old Amherst grad just back from serving in Korea. He spent the next seven years working as a key lieutenant for farm director Jim McLaughlin. Though the Orioles organization made progress in the 1950s, things might have gone b...3349Thu, 05 Feb 2015 05:55:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/5th-starter-candidate-mike-pelfrey-r3351/The Background Pelfrey is a big, 6-7, 250 pound right-hander. He was the Mets first round draft pick (ninth overall) in the 2005 draft out of Wichita State. The Scott Boras client came to the Twins before the 2013 season on a one-year contract. He had undergone Tommy John surgery in April of 2012...3351Thu, 05 Feb 2015 04:29:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-happened-to-joe-mauer-r3348/MOST. PRODUCTIVE. OFFSEASON. EVER*. You hear that pitchers? Print the World Series tickets now. Plan the parade route. Chisel Mauer’s bust on the MVP trophy. Start the...hold on. Apparently last year Mauer told the Pioneer Press that that winter “has been a very productive offseason” and that...3348Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:52:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-best-25-gms-in-history-9-dave-dombrowski-r3346/Dombrowski didn’t prevaricate. He told his boss that he would deliver if allowed to take the payroll from around $31 million (in the lower third of the league) to roughly $44.5 million (near the top). Huizinga told him to go for it, and Dombrowski went to work, pulling the levers masterfully. In t...3346Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:54:11 +0000