https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/1186/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-top-tampa-7-3-in-spring-opener-r157/This afternoon, the Twins made their official spring training debut and they came away with a 7-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. This got off to an ominous start for the Twins. Starter Carl Pavano gave up a two-run, first inning home run to Matt Joyce. In the bottom of the first, David Price hit...157Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:31:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-7-rays-3-in-1st-grapefruit-league-game-r156/In their first official Grapefruit League game, the Twins defeated the Rays 7-3 this afternoon in Fort Myers. Manager Ron Gardenhire trotted out a lineup heavy on expected starting position players, but it was the backups who had the biggest impact, tallying three runs in the 6th inning to give the...156Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:20:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/mackey-twins-respond-to-hardyortiz-comments-r155/ESPN1500's Phil Mackey details the Twins perspective in what has become 'going-the-other-way' gate.   In terms of J.J. Hardy, according to hitting coach Joe Vavra, the Twins were trying to balance out the hitter who was completely lost at the plate.   [PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] Hardy was a mess at the plat...155Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:58:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/happy-opening-day-of-spring-training-games-r154/Happy Opening Day of Spring Training Games! No, it doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as Happy Opening Day! Then again, Opening Day should be a national holiday (in my mind, at least). In about an hour, the Twins will take the field at Hammond Stadium to take on David Price and the Tampa Bay Ra...154Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:53:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/rough-day-for-gutierrez-r152/The Twins played their unofficial first game of the spring on Thursday -- a 'B' game against the Red Sox at Hammond Field. Obviously, you can't put much stock into what goes on during exhibition contests – particularly an informal affair such as this one – but one performance that stuck out to me wa...152Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:58:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-ampamp-the-geek-event-monday-35-605-at-the-wild-boar-r151/Waddya say we watch us some baseball? Our first chance to see the Twins on TV is this Monday night, so why not celebrate with some Twins fans? Aaron Gleeman and I will be at The Wild Boar on Monday night (3/5 at 6:05) for our weekly podcast and kicking back to watch the Twins. Hopefully, you can joi...151Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:14:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twinstrain-territory-train-bus-driver-ed-and-scott-stahoviak-r150/Hello again, everybody. For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the TwinsTrain operation over the last couple of years, don't feel left out; it's never too late to sync up with our touring outfit and join the excitement this summer.   In a nutshell, we package...150Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:47:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/on-tone-of-writing-r148/The following are examples of comments we've received on blog posts over the past few days. The first came from Twins Daily member roger responding to my post earlier this week about the Zumaya injury: Is the new Twins Daily going to be another site where everyone 'bad mouths' everything Mr. Ryan an...148Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:39:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/patience-with-bullpen-is-a-must-r147/It appears that the polarizing Twins topic of the first ten days of spring training is the Twins bullpen. There are many who believe that the Twins messed up by not adding more veteran relief pitchers to major league contracts during the offseason. I’m firmly on the opposite side of that argument. I...147Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:58:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/building-a-bench-r144/A year ago, the Twins went into the regular season with a bench consisting of Drew Butera, Jason Repko, Matt Tolbert and Jim Thome. In other words: three guys who possessed only defensive value, and one who possessed only offensive value. It was a pretty limiting group, and the lack of flexibility c...144Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:57:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/my-journey-to-the-minnesota-twins-r143/Blog Post #1 By: Aaron Bates Follow my daily Spring Training journey on twitter at: @A33bates Hey Guys! I'm very excited that Seth Stohs asked me to do a regular blog throughout spring training. It's truly one of my favorite times of year as I love getting back on the field and seeing my teammates a...143Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:51:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/position-battles-the-hitters-r140/Here we are, less than a week into full Twins spring training workouts. Games don’t even start for a couple of days. It’s time to start talking position battles, right? It appears to me that there are actually very few positions that are up for grabs at this stage of camp. Of course, as injuries mou...140Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:53:00 +0000