https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/195/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/offseason-primer-what-are-the-white-sox-up-to-r17207/The White Sox finished the 2024 season with a Major League Baseball record 121 losses. Even a relatively strong finish and an attempt to avoid history, going 5-1 over their last six games and 10-15 in the month of September, couldn’t save them from what seemed inevitable.  2024 Season Revie...17207Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:08:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/how-attractive-is-the-minnesota-twins-franchise-to-potential-buyers-r17209/The Pohlad family recently made waves by announcing they are exploring the possibility of selling the Minnesota Twins. This news stirs up the question: How attractive is this franchise to potential buyers? To answer that, let’s take a closer look at what the Minnesota Twins have to offer an...17209Sat, 12 Oct 2024 16:06:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/3-big-questions-for-the-2025-twins-bullpen-r17211/The Twins bullpen was largely ineffective in 2024 despite Griffin Jax being one of the best relievers in baseball and Cole Sands having a breakout season. Just about everything else went wrong, leaving them with several big questions heading into 2025. What’s Up With Durán? Jhoan Durán ha...17211Sat, 12 Oct 2024 13:52:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/free-agency-trades-prospects-how-the-2024-minnesota-twins-were-built-r17198/The graphic below from MLB.com makes for an interesting exercise, as it didn't focus on payroll but rather the production each player provided (bWAR) and how each team acquired that player. We see that free agency played a relatively large role in constructing the NL playoff teams, whereas AL te...17198Sat, 12 Oct 2024 11:36:13 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/if-i-owned-the-minnesota-twins-a-wish-list-r17208/As Matt Lenz wrote in his recent piece, the last several ownership changes across baseball have produced a mixed outcome. While there are owners like Steve Cohen who act like fans, willing to lose substantial money to win, there are multiple other examples of new ownership groups running their t...17208Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:37:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/these-were-the-twins-worst-graded-pitches-in-2024-r17201/If you need to review with Pitching+ is, I’d direct you to my previous piece, where I wrote about the best-graded pitches from the 2024 season. I’ll use the same parameters for this article: In order for a Twins pitcher’s offering to make the list, they needed to throw at least 20 innings for th...17201Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:26:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-daily-most-valuable-player-2024-carlos-correa/The 2024 Twins season is not one that we'll look back at in a positive light. The way it ended leaves a bitter taste that overwhelms all other senses as we attempt to reflect and analyze the year that was. Small consolation as it may be, the Twins did experience a fair amount of success ove...17182Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:41:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/reflecting-on-positives-from-the-pohlad-familys-ownership-of-the-minnesota-twins-r17206/The Pohlad family’s tenure as the owners of the Minnesota Twins has spanned four decades, during which the team has experienced both very high highs and very low lows. Earlier this week, the Twins and the Pohlads announced that the team is exploring selling the team. While criticism is often lev...17206Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:16:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/how-excited-should-fans-be-about-pohlad-family-plans-to-sell-minnesota-twins-r17205/For the second time in 2024, a Major League Baseball organization is up for sale. You might remember that the Baltimore Orioles sold earlier this year, in what was just the “fifth time since 2013 that a control ownership stake in an MLB team was sold”, according to Sportico. The previous four sa...17205Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:05:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-changer-pohlad-family-announces-they-will-explore-selling-twins-r17203/No team has been more antonymous with change over the last four decades than the Twins. The Pohlad family has presided over a long period of conservative stewardship, in which changes in the front office, the field staff, and even the roster tended to come more slowly than almost anywhere else i...17203Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:26:42 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/these-were-the-twins-best-graded-pitches-in-2024-r17199/From FanGraphs glossary, “Pitching+, is a model that uses the physical characteristics (Stuff+), location (Location+), and count of each pitch to try to judge the overall quality of the pitcher’s process.” As you’ll see later in this article, a good Pitching+ grade doesn't always correspond to g...17199Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:09:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-daily-awards-2024-pitcher-of-the-year-r17190/  Twins fans have been clamoring for a pitching pipeline since Derek Falvey took over the team’s top baseball operations role. The 2024 season saw that pitching pipeline put into action, with multiple rookies occupying starting spots by the season’s end. Other veteran pitchers made strides...17190Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:14:01 +0000