https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/1123/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/friday-links-n-thinks-r845/Anytime the Twins end a week with a .500 record, it is a step in the right direction. A sweep of a day-night double header in Kansas City last Saturday helped to get the team off to the right track for the week. The big offensive showing on Tuesday night against the White Sox was also fun to see eve...845Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:12:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/top-10-prospects-season-in-review-r843/Prior to the start of every season, I like to go through the Twins organization and rank my Top 10 prospects, offering a glimpse of the farm system's strength and providing my personal take on the hierarchy of the club's best up-and-coming players. Now that the regular seasons of every minor-league...843Fri, 07 Sep 2012 03:26:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-curious-case-of-anthony-slama-r841/The last two seasons have been rough for the Twins as the team has posted back-to-back horrible win-loss records. But some positive things came out of this madness. For instance, in this past June's amateur draft, the Twins selected Byron Buxton, arguably the best player in the draft. Also, all...841Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:45:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/when-does-the-honeymoon-end-at-target-field-r840/My Twins season ticket renewal package arrived today in the mail. As per usual it's a beautiful and oversized PR masterpiece "dedicated to the greatness of our season ticket holders." In an attempt to come up with a theme to convince us to once again fill the seats at Target Field, the Twins are ap...840Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:19:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/2012-rock-cats-mvp-aaron-hicks-r839/Just 5 months ago, I questioned whether Aaron Hicks had earned his promotion to AA. At that time, he was coming off a less-than-impressive High-A slash line of .242/.354/.368 in 2011. More importantly, he was repeating High-A that season, so I had reason to be suspicious. Boy, was I wrong. [PRBREAK...839Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:04:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/these-call-ups-are-a-downer-r838/With the Twins on pace to lose nearly 100 games for a second straight year, fans have to derive joy from the little things. In a season that was basically lost from the get-go, relative frivolities like the trade deadline, August waiver moves and September call-ups become focal points of interest. U...838Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:36:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-will-another-good-september-mean-for-chris-parmelee-r837/At this time last year, the Twins called up a couple of young prospects from Double-A to make their major league debuts. Joe Benson was the more highly-touted name out of the two young players but Chris Parmelee came up and made a much stronger impression in the final month of the year. Benson wo...837Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:57:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-and-the-geek-ep-57-doziers-september-snub-and-back-to-beer-r835/Aaron and John talk about the September callups that don't include Brian Dozier, Denard Span's prompt inclusion on the DL, Joe Mauer waiver wire silliness, why Anthony Slama may be rethinking his career choices, Arizona Fall League participants, Parmelee's outfield play, Las Vegas, Jacqueline Bisset...835Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:08:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-promote-eduardo-escobar-and-luis-perdomo-as-september-callups-r833/Per a tweet by Pioneer Press beat reporter John Shipley, the Twins are only calling up two players as September callups. Eduardo Escobar, a middle-infielder acquired when the Twins traded Francisco Liriano, and Luis Perdomo, a right-handed reliever who pitched for the Twins earlier this year, will j...833Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:04:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/outrage-over-medical-staff-is-overblown-r830/Last week, Denard Span finally landed on the disabled list one day before rosters expanded and 18 days after initially suffering a shoulder injury back in early August. Not the medical staff's finest hour, probably, but the uproar I saw amongst casual fans and hardcores alike sort of left me dum...830Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:49:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/saturday-night-minor-league-lights-r826/The Twins won both ends of a double header against Kansas City on Saturday but there was plenty of exciting action across the minor leagues. Let's check out how the Twins farm system fared as their seasons are coming to a close.   ELIZABETHTON 2, BURLINGTON 3 In what looks like it will be a great Ap...826Sun, 02 Sep 2012 03:11:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-pitchers-who-could-contribute-to-a-playoff-team-in-the-future-r822/Last week, I investigated which position players on the current 40-man roster can help a potential Twins playoff team. If you want to read it, click here. In my mind, the first possible contending season is 2014, although I feel that could be a bit of a stretch. For the purposes of this post, I a...822Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:12:00 +0000