https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/236/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/swr-varland-twins-rotation-fifth-starter-controversy/Twins 20th-ranked prospect Simeon Woods Richardson made his second career start against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park Saturday. It's the same site where he made his MLB debut 561 days earlier. Having begun the season at Triple-A St. Paul as the organization's sixth starter and the first li...15994Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:15:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/byron-buxton-needs-to-catch-up-to-the-fastball-r15999/Hitting fastballs is a primary ingredient to success for most hitters, and that's certainly true for Byron Buxton. When he's going good, Buxton is reactively turning on heaters with his lightning-quick wrists and bashing those things to all fields with authority.  Last year, despite mediocr...15999Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:08:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/carlos-correa-oblique-intercostal-strains-injury-update/  Carlos Correa left Friday night's loss to the Tigers after experiencing tightness in his right side. He was placed on the injured list on Saturday with what was originally stated to be a right oblique strain. However, an MRI conducted after Correa left the game Friday instead revealed the...16003Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:21:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/episode-0-recapping-detroit-looking-to-baltimore-r16002/Greggory Masterson, Sweet Lou Hennessy, Cody Schoenmann, and Matt Braun of Twins Daily get together for the pilot episode of the Twins Off-Daily Podcast to break down the Twins-Tigers series and look ahead to the Twins' trip to Baltimore. This is a trial run of the podcast and it is not yet...16002Mon, 15 Apr 2024 01:15:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/week-review-correa-injury-buxton-struggles-julien-power/Weekly Snapshot: Mon, 4/8 through Sun, 4/14 *** Record Last Week: 3-4 (Overall: 6-8) Run Differential Last Week: -2 (Overall: -7) Standing: 4th Place in AL Central (3.5 GB) Last Week's Game Results: Game 8 | LAD 4, MIN 2: Offense Sleepwalks Through Another Loss Game 9 | LAD 6...16001Sun, 14 Apr 2024 23:10:27 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/tigers-4-twins-3-bailey-ober-good-bullpen-and-defense-let-twins-down-late-r15997/The Twins entered Sunday's game in a strange spot. They have pitched pretty well thus far this season, but their top players have been either injured (Carlos Correa, Royce Lewis Jhoan Durán) or mediocre (Pablo López, Byron Buxton). Just when everything was at its bleakest following an 8-2 trounc...15997Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:12:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/former-twins-prospect-completing-long-journey-from-first-round-pick-to-mlb-debut-r15981/Tyler Jay has faced pressure since the day the Twins drafted him with the sixth overall pick in the 2015 MLB Draft. At the time, Jay was considered one of the top-rated players in the draft (MLB.com ranked him ninth), but he had spent his collegiate career as a dominant reliever. In 128 2/3 coll...15981Sun, 14 Apr 2024 15:22:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/make-it-official-twins-4-tigers-1-castro-crushes-and-sands-saves-r15992/Game 2: Twins 4, Tigers 1 Box Score SP: Simeon Woods Richardson 6.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K (80 pitches, 53 strikes, 7 whiffs) Home Runs: Edouard Julien (4), Willi Castro (1) Top 3 WPA: Simeon Woods Richardson (.252), Cole Sands (.167), Willi Castro (.162) Win Probability Char...15992Sat, 13 Apr 2024 23:29:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/make-it-official-twins-11-tigers-5-first-game-goes-off-the-rails-r15991/Box Score SP: Joe Ryan 6.0 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 12 K (96 pitches, 70 strikes, 20 whiffs) Home Runs: Ryan Jeffers (3), Matt Wallner (1) Top 3 WPA: Ryan Jeffers (.733), Jorge Alcala (.261), Brock Stewart (.140) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) Facing the Former King...15991Sat, 13 Apr 2024 21:07:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-2-tigers-8-sloppy-and-lethargic-in-detroit-r15990/Box Score Pablo López: 4 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 3 BB, 7 K Home Runs: None Bottom 3 WPA: Pablo López (-.180), Austin Martin (-.085), Carlos Correa (-.065) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) One day wasn’t enough to wait before baseball could be played in Detroit; the previous day...15990Sat, 13 Apr 2024 02:43:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/carlos-correa-christian-vazquez-veterans-salaries-twins-payroll/It may pale in comparison to Carlos Correa's precedent-shattering $200 million deal signed later in the same winter, but at the time, Christian Vázquez's $30 million free agent contract from Minnesota ranked as one of the biggest ever for this front office. Those two signings contributed to a re...15983Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:24:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/center-field-is-the-most-important-position-to-the-twins-past-present-and-future-r15973/The Twins have a center field lineage that stretches throughout most of the team’s history in Minnesota. Some of the biggest personalities in team history, like Kirby Puckett, Torii Hunter, and Byron Buxton, have won Gold Gloves in center field. This trio is tied to specific generations of Twins...15973Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:06:02 +0000