https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/1057/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/acquiring-talent-the-twins-way-position-players-part-1-of-3-r2073/Last Friday Terry Ryan spoke to Paul Allen about Free Agency: Free Agency is only one of the 6 most common methods of acquiring talent. The others are the Amateur Draft, Amateur Free Agency, Rule 5 Draft, Trades, and Waivers. Using Baseball-references Player registry data, I will examine the Twins'...2073Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:45:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/tuesday-twins-notebook-r2072/The Twins got a nice 4-3 win last night at Target Field in the first game of the final home stand of the season. Brian Dozier knocked his 18th home run of the season to send the game to extra innings. In the 11th inning, Josmil Pinto drove in the game-winning run for the Twins. As the season is win...2072Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-shut-down-mauer-for-rest-of-season-r2071/In speaking with the media this afternoon, Twins general manager Terry Ryan announced that the team has decided to shutdown Joe Mauer because of his on-going concussion issue, tweeted FoxSportNorth.com's Tyler Mason. According to reports, both Ryan and Mauer were insistent that Mauer would be back...2071Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:09:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/dissension-on-spending-r2070/Earlier this month, while calling his team's play "embarrassing" (this was before the pitching staff coughed up 39 runs in a four-game sweep at Oakland over the weekend), owner Jim Pohlad expressed his dedication to turning things around, suggesting that he was ready to make a significant financial...2070Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:49:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/examining-twins-managerial-candidates-r2069/There is less than a week left in the regular season and the Twins don't have a manager under contract for 2014. With Minnesota on their way to a third straight 90-loss season, there are questions about whether Ron Gardenhire deserves another opportunity at the helm. He won the 2010 AL Manager-of-th...2069Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:11:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/monday-morning-madness-september-23-2013-r2068/Twins/A's Recap The word "bludgeoned" gets thrown around so often... The Gardy 1000 Is this going to happen? Going into this week, the Twins needed to go 4-10 to finish the season "strong" and give Ron Gardenhire 1000 career wins. As bad as the Twins have been, that seemed reasonable. Star wipe...2068Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:52:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/episode-112-new-bohemia-40-men-and-police-stories-r2067/Aaron and John take the podcast to the New Bohemia Octoberfest and talk about last week's Grand Drunk Railroad experience, Glen Perkins buying beers from the bullpen, who the Twins should purge from the 40-man roster, Joe Mauer's ongoing absence, Aaron Hicks not getting a September call-up, why...2067Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:46:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/8-reasons-to-not-worry-about-aaron-hicks-and-kyle-gibson-r2066/In case you missed it, a couple of prominent Twins rookies had difficult seasons. Well, difficult might be a massive understatement. Well, massive might be a huge overstatement. I'll calibrate my adjectives later, but we all know that Aaron Hicks and Kyle Gibson performed below expectations. Exp...2066Sun, 22 Sep 2013 01:57:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/have-the-twins-been-screwed-by-umpires-r2062/Robot umpires now? You wouldn’t blame Kyle Gibson for wanting them. A recent Wall Street Journal article took an in-depth look at Major League Baseball’s strike zone and found that some teams have benefited from an expanded zone while others suffered from shrinkage. Brian Costa consulted with the l...2062Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:32:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/two-separate-sophomore-seasons-r2061/When the Twins left spring training, there were multiple Twins players in line to get playing time during their sophomore seasons. The second year can be a huge year for players trying to make their mark at the big league level. There can be positive signs during a rookie season but continuing those...2061Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:40:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/liam-hendriks-has-run-out-of-chances-r2060/Liam Hendriks is still only 24 years old. He owns a career 2.99 ERA in the minor leagues. He was dominant against Triple-A hitters as recently as last year. In so many respects, it seems far too soon to consider giving up on the Australian righty. Yet, after watching his downright miserable performa...2060Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:15:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/2013-twins-postmortem-what-went-wrong-r2059/Yes, I am aware that there are a couple weeks left in the season. But the Twins are dead. Dead as a door-nail. And they've been that way for months (years?). Shortly after this season comes to its pitiful end, the Twins' brass and field personnel will assemble, as they do every year, in Ft. Myers, f...2059Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:47:00 +0000