https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/260/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/drowning-sorrows-in-a-half-full-glass-r15166/A team that early on Was maddeningly erratic Got their act together And often left us ecstatic We buried the playoff curse Of Yankees as vipers With a core of young players Who back then were in diapers We finally made sense Of trading Arraez Because Pablo became An e...15166Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:37:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-difference-r15163/The Twins have lost. Included in the aftermath is the pouring of obituaries, a dissecting of a team surprising and, eventually, unthreatening. They'll use words like "scrappy" and "feisty"—words intended to praise with minor compliment, but ultimately mean there was no belief that Minnesota coul...15163Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:21:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-the-geek-fun-while-it-lasted-r15162/15162Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:37:35 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/between-mourning-and-looking-ahead-appreciate-2023-r15161/Maybe you're the crying type. Maybe you're the angry type. Maybe you're the type to bury it and not admit it hurts. But it does. You wouldn't be reading this if you didn't care about your Minnesota Twins. Whatever emotions you want to engage with, engage with them. Whatever complaints you h...15161Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:16:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-minnesota-twins-finally-have-their-ace-in-pablo-lopez-r15154/Ever since the Minnesota Twins traded away Johan Santana they have been in the long pursuit of another ace starting pitcher. They tried the path of developing their own ace through the draft like José Berríos or Kyle Gibson. They tried trading for prospects on other teams like Alex Meyer. They t...15154Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:19:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/astros-3-twins-2-the-season-is-over-r15160/Box Score Starting Pitcher: Joe Ryan, 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K (26 pitches, 18 strikes, 69.2%) Home Runs: Royce Lewis (4), Edouard Julien (1) Bottom 3 WPA: Jorge Polanco (-.240), Caleb Thielbar (-.202), Max Kepler (-.117) Win Probability Chart (via FanGraphs) Teams excha...15160Thu, 12 Oct 2023 02:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/sonny-gray-jose-abreu-home-run-game-3-alds/Sonny Gray put together one of the best seasons of his career by routinely disentangling himself from the exact type of jam that he found himself in right out of the gates on Tuesday. Unlike his co-rotation leader Pablo Lopez, Gray is not a pitcher who thrived this year because of missing b...15159Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:25:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/home-plate-umpires-have-favored-twins-opponents-in-2023-playoffs-r15156/Being a major-league umpire is no easy task. It takes years of hard work and dedication to reach the big leagues, where pitchers throw triple-digit fastballs and breaking pitches with significant movement. There are also replays from multiple angles that show whether a pitch is a ball or a strik...15156Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:16:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/yordan-alvarez-has-crushed-can-the-twins-stop-him-r15158/Coming into the American League Division Series, we all expected that the most challenging bat in the Houston Astros lineup would be Yordan Álvarez. Álvarez is a tremendous hitter in the prime of his career, and is a left hander. With a playoff roster full of right handed arms, Alvarez’s elite p...15158Wed, 11 Oct 2023 03:11:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-youth-burning-them-at-the-worst-time-r15157/Rocco Baldelli’s club should’ve felt a good deal of comfort going into Game 3. The Houston Astros were starting righty Cristian Javier, and despite him being incredible during the 2022 World Series run, he had been nothing close to that this season. Rather than piling on behind Sonny Gray, the o...15157Wed, 11 Oct 2023 02:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/astros-9-twins-1-alvarez-abreu-and-the-astros-deflate-target-field-twins-face-elimination-wednesday-r15155/Box Score Starting Pitcher: Sonny Gray - 4 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 1 BB, 6 K (83 Pitches, 57 Strikes, 69%) Home Runs: None Bottom WPA: Gray (-.302), Royce Lewis (-.152), Ryan Jeffers (-.038) Win Probability Chart (Via Fangraphs): The Twins came into Tuesday's Game 3 riding high after brin...15155Tue, 10 Oct 2023 23:23:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/build-a-team-like-the-braves-the-twins-already-did-sorta-r15047/The Atlanta Braves are the class of MLB right now, and the breathless admiration of them from those in the game and those who analyze will continue whether you like it or not. The Braves tied the 2019 Twins home run record of 307 and have steamrolled the competition, including a decisive sweep o...15047Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:16:01 +0000