https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/225/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-road-trips-travel-cities-ballparks-2024-season/Traveling to see the Twins on the road has become one of my absolute favorite parts of fandom. It's an excuse to go visit and explore different cities, and of course, seeing baseball played in the many unique venues across the league is a joy. Sampling the food, sizing up the sightlines, and soc...15693Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:19:22 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/royce-lewis-contract-extension-witt-free-agency-arbitration/Royce Lewis and Bobby Witt Jr. have their similarities. Both are freak athletes who can contribute in any way imaginable on the field. Any team employing them is exceptionally fortunate, as both high first-round picks seem destined for greatness. There are also, however, several relevant differe...15709Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:12:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/pecota-projections-2024-julien-kepler-santana-lee/Yesterday, we looked at the projections for the men who will toe the rubber for the Twins in 2024. Today, we’ll analyze the hitting side of things. I’ve chosen to use DRC+ as the sole hitting metric, simply because it’s the cleanest one Baseball Prospectus offers, and lord knows no one wants to...15711Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:06:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/2024-minnesota-twins-spring-training-position-battles-left-field-r15674/Rocco Baldelli comes into Spring Training with a relatively clear plan for his outfield. The hope would be that there is more consistency out there this season, and that starts in center field, with Byron Buxton. While Max Kepler has been in right field for the better part of the past nine years...15674Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:38:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/pitchers-and-catchers-report-poem-2024-r15712/But no TV deal meant slashed payroll hell  Pitchers and catchers report No chance to sign a Montgomery or Snell Pitchers and catchers report We wished "best of luck" to ace Sonny Gray Detroit gave Maeda his deserved payday The hardest "Bye-bye" was to Hip-hip Jorge Pitchers and cat...15712Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:30:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/lets-road-trip-2024-opening-week-kansas-city-and-milwaukee-march-28-april-3-r15687/As familiar as these parts of the baseball world might feel, you might be surprised by a couple of things. Let's take a closer look. Kansas City Royals – March 28, 30, 31 Kauffman Stadium: Capacity 37,903 2023 Attendance: 1,307,052, up from 1,277,686 in 2022 (averaged 16,136, ranked 14th ou...15687Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:08:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/how-far-has-the-twins-rotation-fallen-r15657/When the dust settled on the 2023 Major League Baseball regular season, the Minnesota Twins had generated 16.5 fWAR from their starting rotation. That was the most in the American League, coming in ahead of the Tampa Bay Rays and trailing only the Philadelphia Phillies across the entire sport. F...15657Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:16:35 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/free-agency-prices-michael-a-taylor-cody-bellinger-boras/A slow-moving market isn’t unfamiliar to baseball fans, who are just two years removed from an offseason that included a 90-plus-day lockout. Nor is it the first offseason where top free agents expecting deals north of $100 million each don’t know where their Spring Training will begin. The...15706Wed, 14 Feb 2024 15:14:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/2024-pecota-projections-lopez-ryan-ober-duran-stewart/The end of the Super Bowl means two things: pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training, and projection season. Teams are finished touching up their roster (sans a notable quartet of free agents still available), allowing our not-quite-yet robot overlords to offer their opinions on each s...15703Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:16:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/2024-bullpen-projection-funderburk-jackson-winder-staumont-okert/Entering the 2023 season, the Twins front office elected to part ways with talented veteran short relievers Danny Coulombe and Jeff Hoffman in the name of rostering a "stretch reliever" who could pitch multiple innings at a time, in case the starting pitcher performed poorly or became injured ea...15705Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:19:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-valentines-day-cards-r15700/  We're glad you're still here, too. List your favorite one, or drop your best Twins-centered Valentine's Day greetings below.    15700Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:20:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/brooks-lee-david-festa-dashawn-keirsey-jr-headline-twins-2024-spring-training-invitations-r15701/Nineteen players signed to minor-league contracts for the 2024 season were invited to big-league spring training on Tuesday. Well, they were probably called weeks ago, but you know what I mean. They will have nine pitchers (8 right-handed), four extra catchers, four infielders, one outfielder an...15701Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:36:00 +0000