https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/239/?d=1enhttps://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 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/hardest-hit-balls-twins-2023-season-exit-velocity/As a team, the Twins produced some of the noisiest contact in the league last year. They ranked fifth in the majors in average exit velocity (89.4 MPH), thanks to the American's League's top barrel rate (6.4%). This was very much by design for an offense that made a point out of selling out for...15480Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:20:03 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-international-free-agency-bonus-money-daibel-de-los-santos-eduardo-beltre/The international amateur free agent signing period kicks off on Jan. 15, and runs through Dec. 15, 2024. The signing period is now hard-capped, so organizations may no longer exceed their bonus pool by any amount. Players signed to an amount of $10,000 or less do not count against a team's bonu...15486Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:19:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/expect-kody-funderburk-to-bear-a-prominent-bullpen-role-in-2024-r15485/Heading into the 2024 season, the Twins have four arms appointed as primary late-inning, high-leverage relievers: Jhoan Durán, Griffin Jax, Brock Stewart, and Caleb Thielbar. Behind this quartet of trustworthy hurlers is an amalgam of relatively unknown commodities who fit one of two molds: youn...15485Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:23:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/top-players-assets-2024-varland-polanco-raya-wallner-duran/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 answering the question: Which current players in the organization are most indispensable to fulfilling the vision of building a champion? To rank Twins player...15478Wed, 03 Jan 2024 12:43:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/cory-provus-justin-morneau-broadcast-rights-blackouts-future-fans/Replacing a mainstay like Dick Bremer is always going to invite a certain level of scrutiny. Even though Bert Blyleven had run his course, a segment of fans still wanted to see him on a nightly basis. Bremer had adapted to the changing game over time, but the Twins saw an opportunity for fresh p...15468Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:14:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/top-players-assets-2024-paddack-martin-kepler-kirilloff-festa/The idea of this exercise is to take stock of the organization's talent through the scope of team-building. The goal is to answer this question: Which current players in the organization are most indispensable to fulfilling the vision of building a champion? We account for age, contract, co...15474Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:20:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/2024-projections-max-kepler-ryan-jeffers-willi-castro-brock-stewart/Regression impacts even the greatest players in baseball history. Age is an obvious and essentially universal factor in projecting changes in player performance over time, but other factors, like injuries, can have an impact, too. Last year, the Twins saw Carlos Correa have arguably his worst bi...15470Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:43:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/a-tiny-schedule-perk-for-the-2024-twins-r15467/A season ago, the Twins played the Los Angeles Dodgers in California in May. Rocco Baldelli’s club got walked off in the first contest, bounced back to win the second, but then lost the rubber match. Dave Roberts’s team wasn’t the same juggernaut last year (at least at that early juncture), but...15467Mon, 01 Jan 2024 16:19:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/free-agency-donovan-solano-reunion-first-base-alex-kirilloff/After being added to the roster just over a month before the season began, Donovan Solano played a surprisingly significant role for the Twins in 2023. He publicly announced that he would like to join the Twins roster again in 2024. Is there a realistic fit? Solano performed exceptiona...15472Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:37:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/greatest-twins-teams-of-all-time-1970-r15475/Overview The 1970 Twins—the reason why we can’t broadly declare the decade to be pitiful and fruitless. That, and Rod Carew. And Bert Blyleven. The great mechanisms that built the Twins of the 1960s were still at play in 1970. Franchise icons like Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Jim Kaat...15475Sun, 31 Dec 2023 19:20:01 +0000