https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/238/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/where-are-they-now-twins-draft-picks-sabato-cavaco-gordon-lewis-petty-jenkins-larnach-kirilloff-lee/Derek Falvey and Thad Levine have focused on certain player types with their first-round picks, as the Twins have remained relevant in the AL Central. Strong organizations need to hit on their first-round picks and turn them into regulars at the big-league level. Let’s look back at the last deca...15482Sun, 07 Jan 2024 12:28:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-aiming-for-heightened-fan-experience-this-spring-r15488/At the beginning of December, KARE 11 reported that the Twins would be selling tickets only for the main bowl of the ballpark for April games this year. Those sections include the entirety of the 100 level, as well as 229-240 and 321-334. Season tickets are obviously sold throughout the ballpark...15488Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:32:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/3-reasons-matt-wallner-is-not-the-next-joey-gallo-or-miguel-sano-r15484/Last season, the Twins attempted to turn Joey Gallo into a reclamation project after a disastrous 2022 season. Gallo came out of the gate strongly with a 1.063 OPS in the season’s first month, including 11 extra-base hits (seven home runs) in 55 at-bats. Things took a turn for the worse from the...15484Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:05:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/matt-lecroy-david-ortiz-twins-retrospective/Matt LeCroy was a first-round pick out of Clemson in 1997 who mashed his way through the minors. LeCroy hit 30 minor league homers in 1999, including ten bombs with a .936 OPS in 29 games at the Triple-A level. Baseball America ranked him as the 44th-best prospect in baseball entering the 2000 s...15487Sat, 06 Jan 2024 12:10:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-the-geek-new-year-same-nothing-r15498/15498Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:54:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/free-agency-rumors-jorge-soler-rhys-hoskins-adam-duvall-marcus-stroman/  The calendar has flipped to 2024, and the Twins have done *checks notes* very little to add to their roster for the upcoming season. Part of that is due to a slow-moving free agent market, as well as a lack of clarity on the funds available as they peruse the players who might be availabl...15493Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:21:05 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/top-players-assets-2024-jeffers-lee-lopez-lewis-jenkins/You can get a full explanation for the parameters used to develop this list in Tuesday's intro post, but the short version is this: We're trying the question: Which current players in the organization are most indispensable to fulfilling the vision of building a champion? To rank Twins players a...15481Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:17:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/draft-classes-late-rounds-edouard-julien-bailey-ober-festa-funderburk-headrick/It’s not exactly surprising when a  team nails a first-round pick, especially when they are in the upper half of the group. It’s also not difficult to point out the misses in the first round, as those will always stand out the most and be disheartening. What good developing teams can do, though,...15469Fri, 05 Jan 2024 12:30:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/alexy-staumont-jensen-walks-mechanics-twins-coaching/Even before they openly laid out their self-imposed payroll restrictions for this offseason, it was reasonable to guess that the Twins front office wasn't going to invest heavily in bullpen additions. Because... they never do. Two offseasons ago, they made one low-wattage addition to the relief...15496Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:59:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/news-twins-claim-relief-pitcher-ryan-jensen-on-waivers-r15494/After his time on waivers was extended by the closure of MLB's offices from Christmas through New Year's day, righthander Ryan Jensen now has a new home. The Twins claimed him on waivers, where the Miami Marlins placed him last month. Jensen, 26, was the Cubs' first-round pick back in 2019, and...15494Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:36:06 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/top-players-assets-2024-ryan-rodriguez-julien-ober-correa/You can get a full explanation for the parameters used to develop this list in Tuesday's intro post, but the short version is this: We're addressing the question: Which current players in the organization are most indispensable to fulfilling the vision of building a champion? To rank Twins playe...15479Thu, 04 Jan 2024 14:15:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/edouard-julien-walk-rate-plate-approach-kevin-youkilis-2024-projections/There's a famous scene in the 2011 movie Moneyball, in which Brad Pitt's and Jonah Hill’s characters try to convince Oakland’s scouting staff of ways the team can replace the good players they are losing in free agency. It’s a back-and-forth conversation, but the basic premise is that the scout...15477Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:39:01 +0000