https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/1071/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/arod-selig-bosch-yankees-cbs-nuke-%E2%80%98em-all-r2284/I know, you’re tired of talking about Alex Rodriguez and his war with Bud Selig and Major League Baseball over his use of Performance Enhancing Drugs. Me, too. Still, we all knew we were going to have to go through another bombardment of stories about the subject whenever the arbitration system...2284Tue, 14 Jan 2014 03:24:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/do-the-twins-view-swarzak-as-a-starter-r2283/Because 87 of his 92 appearances for the Twins over the last two years have come out of the bullpen, it can be easy to forget that Anthony Swarzak was exclusively a starter in the minors. A pretty good one, too. After being drafted in the second round out of high school, Swarzak rose quickly, reach...2283Mon, 13 Jan 2014 05:46:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-and-the-geek-episode-128-spring-training-in-new-zealand-r2282/Aaron and John discuss the Minnesota Twins spring invitees, the rest of the available free agents, Aaron's reason for going to New Zealand, Hammerheart's smokey experiments, John's brilliant baseball tournament, what happened to a bunch of ex-Twins, Aaron's bucket list and one million reasons to lov...2282Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:36:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/minnesota-twins-fantasy-camp-jan-2014-r2281/This week (Jan 3th to Jan 11th, 2014) over 130 guys (and four women) suited up in a clubhouse where real major leaguers spend their spring training and pretended to be ballplayers for an entire week. We were at the Minnesota Twins Fantasy Camp hanging out with past Twins greats that included the l...2281Mon, 13 Jan 2014 00:38:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-advantageous-oswaldo-arcia-r2280/Oswaldo Arcia’s rookie season was filled with the expected peaks and valleys that most normal human rookies encounter during their first year of facing the world’s best competition. Offensively, he displayed flashes of unbridled power by depositing home runs to all fields but alternated those moment...2280Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:29:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/a-hall-without-jack-morris-is-no-hall-at-all-r2278/On Wednesday afternoon, it was announced that the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) elected Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas into the Baseball Hall of Fame as the Class of 2014. While each of the candidates were worthy of election (as each were some of the most dominant player...2278Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:40:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-organizational-depth-chart-first-base-r2276/It started on Tuesday with the catchers, and over the next few weeks, I’ll be taking a look at the depth at each position throughout the Minnesota Twins organization. Today, I’ll look through the system’s first basemen. Joe Mauer and the Twins made the announcement in November, but starting in sprin...2276Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:11:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/more-dingers-for-dozier-r2275/Let’s just start by saying that in his second tour of duty in the major league, Brian Dozier fared better than in his first stint. After a dismal 2012 season, he managed to improve his walk rate and power numbers to finish the year as one of the team’s top contributions. Faint praise, however, consi...2275Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:10:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/introducing-the-eddie-400-r2274/If you've been reading my blog for the past few weeks, you are well aware that I have recently become obsessed with Eduardo Escobar. Not in a weird way. I just want to see more of him. Not in a weird way. I think he deserves more playing time. Last year, Escobar received just 179 plate appearances,...2274Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:13:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/finding-optimism-in-the-offense-r2273/No one would deny that this has been a relatively aggressive offseason for Terry Ryan and the Minnesota Twins. Already we've seen them sign two starting pitchers to larger contracts than they've ever given a free agent in the past, and they followed up by adding Mike Pelfrey on a two-year deal....2273Wed, 08 Jan 2014 03:50:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-hangout-returns-~-january-7-2014-r2272/Join Seth and Jeremy at 8:30 tonight as we discuss Twins Baseball. It will be viewable in link on this page as well as on Jeremy's Google+ page. We don't have a verified guest yet, and even if our planned guest falls through, we'll have plenty to talk about... we always do! See you tonight at 8:30...2272Wed, 08 Jan 2014 01:01:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-organizational-depth-chart-catchers-r2271/Over the next couple weeks, I’ll be taking a look at the depth by position throughout the Minnesota Twins organization. The majority of moves have been made. There could still be some minor league signings and there remain rumors of the Twins bringing in another starting pitcher. Today I will start...2271Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:45:00 +0000