https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/121/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/pecota-2025-minnesota-twins-take-the-american-league-central-crown-r17718/Baseball Prospectus (BP) has released their PECOTA projections for the 2025 season, and their thousands of simulations project the Minnesota Twins to win the American League Central with 86 wins (5th in AL, 11th in MLB), five more than the second place Kansas City Royals. PECOTA gives the Twins...17718Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:06:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/x-factors-one-make-or-break-focus-for-each-twins-hitter-this-year-r17711/Make-or-break feels like the theme of the 2025 Twins season. The current group of players offers plenty of proven high-end potential, but so many of them finished the previous season on sour notes and face big question marks heading into the new one.  Let's explore one crucial X factor that...17711Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:53:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/youve-gotta-rate-why-the-splashy-move-and-the-daring-rule-change-are-the-way-of-the-future-r17714/Don't get it twisted: It has always been important to make good TV, in order to make money in TV. Beginning around the year 2000, when MLB settled in as a cable product and teams started making deals to sell their broadcast rights to various partners for production and distribution, it did matte...17714Sun, 02 Feb 2025 18:11:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/why-are-projection-systems-so-high-on-jhoan-dur%C3%A1n-and-griffin-jax-r17709/You might have heard that the Twins are projected by FanGraphs to have the No. 1 bullpen in baseball this season. It's been a frequent talking point, both because fans have little else to discuss and because there seems to be a broad disconnect regarding the caliber of this unit. Today I wanted...17709Sat, 01 Feb 2025 14:31:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/reviewing-potential-positional-changes-for-the-2025-twins-r17698/During last season’s second-half struggles, the Twins were forced to experiment with defensive alignments in an effort to keep their best bats in the lineup. Royce Lewis became the center of some of those discussions, as he was reluctant to move to second base in the middle of a playoff chase. W...17698Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:55:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/lets-road-trip-twins-2025-trip-5-mid-may-revenge-r17649/Baltimore Orioles - May 13-15 Oriole Park at Camden Yards - Capacity 44,970 2024 Attendance: 2,281,129 (Averaged 28,514, eighth out of 15 AL parks and 19th overall) The Twins journeyed into Baltimore in mid-April of 2024, and they limped out after getting outscored 22-9 in a three-game...17649Sat, 01 Feb 2025 02:59:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-front-office-relief-pitchers-free-agency-philosophy/All three of the other competitors have made impact additions to their bullpens in the last few days after each finishing above the Twins in the 2024 standings. The Twins rarely add relief pitching and certainly weren’t expected to do so this winter with a limited payroll. As the former basement...17704Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:18:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/has-waiting-out-the-market-every-winter-been-successful-for-the-twins-r17701/There are a few reasons why waiting until late in the offseason to make moves can be seen as doing smart business. Some big names may fall through the cracks and have to settle for less money after their other (often more spendy) suiters have already run through their budgets. Suddenly, those bi...17701Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:14:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/ranking-the-2025-minnesota-twins-top-players-under-25-1-5-r17695/Organizational prospect lists can be flawed, because young players graduate to the big leagues and are no longer considered prospects. In the first part of this series, two pitchers significantly impacted the big-league roster last season but are no longer eligible for prospect lists. Minnesota’...17695Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:24:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/lets-road-trip-twins-2025-trip-4-eastern-swingin-r17648/Cleveland Guardians - April 28-May 1 Progressive Field – Capacity 34,830 2024 attendance: 2,056,264 (Averaged 26,028, ranked 9th out of 15 AL parks, 20th overall MLB) Progressive Field provided the Twins with all of the information they needed when evaluating the 2024 season. One win, s...17648Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:47:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-history-of-the-current-system-for-mlb-revenue-sharing-and-luxury-tax%E2%80%94and-what-needs-fixing-r17697/The goal here is to consider the various possible solutions to the big financial problems facing MLB in the coming years. To do that, we'd better start by getting our arms around the history of the current system, to see how we got here. Believe it or not, Major League Baseball has had some...17697Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:21:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/trade-rumors-target-alec-burleson-first-base-nolan-arenado/The St. Louis Cardinals trading third baseman Nolan Arenado has felt inevitable since the offseason began a little over three months ago. The organization nearly accomplished the feat in mid-December, agreeing to a trade that would have sent the 33-year-old to the Houston Astros. However, he inv...17696Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:20:01 +0000