https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/145/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/surprisingly-david-festas-fastball-stinks-heres-why-its-not-an-easy-fix-r18162/Ten innings into 2025, a concerning trend with David Festa is continuing: his fastball isn’t cutting it. He’s allowing a .357 batting average against the heater, and the under-the-hood stats suggest it isn’t a fluke; that pitch is just far too hittable. If he wants to become a regular in the Twi...18162Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:30:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/if-hes-fired-rocco-baldelli-will-only-be-minnesota-twins-%E2%80%9Cfall-guy%E2%80%9D-r18156/Before we begin Rocco Baldelli’s defense portion of this trial, let's play the side of the prosecution. Like all managers—nay, people—Baldelli is not perfect. Does he lean too much into matchups at times, in lieu of letting his best batters hit? Yep. Is he guilty of not giving his starting pitch...18156Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:04:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/2017-mlb-draft-retrospective-missed-opportunities-and-mistakes-define-a-once-tantalizing-class-r18147/Major League Baseball’s amateur draft is unlike those of the other major American men's pro sports leagues. Organizations must draft the right players, and it takes multiple years of development before players can have a major-league impact. Still, certain drafts serve as inflection points for a...18147Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:05:15 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/minnesota-twins-fans-really-really-dont-like-the-pohlad-familys-ownership-r18146/For those paying attention at home, over the past 18 months, the Pohlad family ownership group has run the Minnesota Twins fanbase's morale into the ground, in a number of ways. Recently, Twins Daily introduced a polling feature into the site, and you all have weighed in on a number of topics. O...18146Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:15:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/unfortunately-this-minnesota-twins-offense-isnt-just-off-to-a-slow-start-r18153/Entering Sunday’s game, Twins batters were 27th in OPS, 28th in walk rate, and 25th in Win Probability Added (WPA) among the 30 MLB teams. Ironically, after years and years of gripes from a large portion of the fan base, their strikeout rate of 22.7% ranks a respectable 16th. Unfortunately, the...18153Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:39:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/week-in-review-momentum-killers-r18154/The Weekly Nutshell: At the end of last week, we wondered if Minnesota's victory in the series finale against the Tigers might represent the start of a turnaround. Instead, the Twins opened the the week with another abjectly horrendous baseball game on Monday. Poor performance, bad decisions,...18154Mon, 21 Apr 2025 01:41:55 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/braves-6-twins-2-at-least-someones-season-got-resurrected-this-weekend-r18152/Box Score: Starting Pitcher: Joe Ryan: 5 IP, 8 H, 6 ER, 1 BB, 5 K (93 Pitches, 65 Strikes, 69.9%) Home Runs: Byron Buxton (4) Bottom 3 WPA: Ryan (-.286), Edouard Julien (-.097), Brooks Lee (-.093) Win Probability Chart (Via Fangraphs): The Twins wrapped up their series in Atlanta...18152Sun, 20 Apr 2025 19:59:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-twins-are-pivoting-from-mickey-gasper-to-jonah-bride-on-the-bench-r18144/On Thursday, the Twins placed Matt Wallner on the injured list and used his newly opened roster spot to add Jonah Bride, acquired from the Marlins in exchange for cash after recently being designated for assignment. Then on Friday the team optioned Mickey Gasper to make room for top prospect Luk...18144Sun, 20 Apr 2025 13:36:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/braves-4-twins-3-from-opener-to-close-the-twins-lose-another-winnable-game-r18148/Box Score Opener: Justin Topa 1.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K (24 pitches, 18 strikes (75%) SP: Simeon Woods Richardson 5.0 IP, 8 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 4 K (98 pitches, 66 strikes (67%) Home Runs: Carlos Correa (1) Bottom 3 WPA: Harrison Bader (-.202), Woods Richardson (-.153), Christian Vazquez (...18148Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:29:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/three-reasons-to-still-be-excited-about-the-2025-minnesota-twins-r18141/Look, the 2025 season has not begun according to plan, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. The pitching staff has forgotten how to throw to first (or second, apparently). A lot of the hitters aren’t hitting. Don’t even get me started on all. the. injuries. And yet, the season is still young....18141Sat, 19 Apr 2025 20:03:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/no-velo-no-problem-jhoan-dur%C3%A1ns-early-season-pitch-mix-changes-r18131/Jhoan Durán’s fastball has been his calling card throughout his professional career. His triple-digit heater lit up scoreboards when he was a minor-league starter, and that only increased after moving to the big-league bullpen. Casual fans love fastballs, and Durán was doing things that had neve...18131Sat, 19 Apr 2025 16:32:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/braves-6-twins-4-keaschall-impresses-in-debut-jax-implodes-in-eighth-r18142/Box Score SP: Chris Paddack 5.0 P, 3 H,1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K (88 pitches, 57 strikes (64%)) Home Runs: Trevor Larnach (1)  Top 3 WPA: Paddack (.174); Luke Keaschall (.085), Ryan Jeffers (.072) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) The big headline in this game: Luke Keaschall joined th...18142Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:17:00 +0000