https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/1170/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/cole-in-the-stocking-r446/The Minnesotan, Golden Gopher alum and baseball fan inside me all want to see Cole DeVries succeed in a Twins uniform. The analyst inside me knows that he probably won't. DeVries is a great story. He was signed by the Twins as an undrafted free agent back in 2006 after a solid career at the Universi...446Wed, 23 May 2012 05:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/marquis-out-who-should-replace-him-r442/No surprise here, but the Twins have reportedly designated Jason Marquis for assignment after the veteran was tagged by the Brewers for eight runs while recording only five outs on Sunday. Marquis has never been a particularly good pitcher and I certainly wasn't high on his signing at the time, but...442Mon, 21 May 2012 22:59:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-should-go-all-in-on-greinke-r441/Original post from North Dakota Twins Fan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4jZfVSkFdIc/T7osi8xBYuI/AAAAAAAABSo/T9Dddu6sgOw/s320/ap-201205201432523667858.jpg The Twins didn't put up much of a fight on Sunday afternoon and their four game winning streak came to an abrupt end at the hands of...441Mon, 21 May 2012 13:36:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/a-tale-of-two-rookies-harper-and-dozier-r440/ [TABLE=class: tr-caption-container] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CCa8MxdTpjY/T7o4SKD50wI/AAAAAAAAAWM/loUcirSMPdM/s320/Dozier.bmp [TD=class: tr-caption]Brian Dozier, new Twins shortstop[/TD] [/TABLE] [Originally published at Twins Fan From Afar] One player you probably have heard of since he w...440Mon, 21 May 2012 13:25:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-ampamp-the-geek-ep-42-marquis-de-buzzkill-r438/Aaron and John talk about Jason Marquis' implosion and the state of an increasingly ugly rotation, Drew Butera and Ben Revere turning into Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, how the Twins handled Chris Parmelee, the Van Halen concert-going experience, Nick Blackburn's return to the disabled list, their P...438Mon, 21 May 2012 01:36:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/blog-spotting-draft-worthy-pitchers-r437/One of the great things about Twins Daily is that everyone can start up their own Blog. As we have pointed out, the best of the best can be promoted to the front page. Also, we can promote series as well. Over the last week to ten days, frequent Twins Daily contributor Thrylos has been working on a...437Sun, 20 May 2012 19:21:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/friday-links-n-thinks-r433/Original post from North Dakota Twins Fan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wait for it... Are you ready, yet? Don't adjust your monitor but the Twins just swept a two game series in Detroit. That's not a typo either. Over the course of the two games, the Tigers were a little error prone with six mistakes and the Twi...433Fri, 18 May 2012 11:48:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/shoulder-stifling-pavanos-repertoire-r432/It was revealed a week ago that Carl Pavano’s shoulder was hurting and that the team had him undergo an MRI for precautionary measures. [PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] Fortunately for the already thin pitching staff, the MRI showed nothing more than inflammation and, in preventative efforts, the Twins eased up...432Fri, 18 May 2012 05:12:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/changing-luck-r431/Back in February, I framed the Twins' rotation as a series of five coin flips. Looking back, it's funny how the worst case scenario seems to have struck in every single situation: [PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] The Twins seem to have flipped tails five times in a row. Ouch. Granted, there were a number of warn...431Thu, 17 May 2012 22:44:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/factors-for-frustration-r429/When spring training opened up in late February, I posted an article called Twins Two-Way Planning in which I said that the Twins 2011 roster was probably built perfectly to go one of two directions. In essence, if things went poorly, they had enough one-year, veteran contracts of guys that other te...429Thu, 17 May 2012 03:31:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/are-we-ever-biased-towards-umpire-bias-r428/There is no question that umpires have biases. The question is whether we want them or not. A couple of years ago I reported on a book that I was reading titled Scorecasting by Tobias J Moskowitz and L. Jon Weerthem. This writeup is going to copy a lot of that story. The book is similar to the book...428Thu, 17 May 2012 01:47:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/jason-marquis-and-that-sinking-feeling-r427/Once upon a time, in a land far away on the other side of downtown, covered by a beautiful white bubble – where the weather was always a pleasant 72 degrees – there was a starting pitching staff who understood the intrinsic value of working ahead of opponents. In the last decade, from 2000 to 2010,...427Wed, 16 May 2012 04:35:00 +0000