https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/336/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/carlos-correa-leadership-defining-impact/Teammates, media, and fans laud Carlos Correa for his leadership ability. Shoot, players on other teams compliment Correa for being a leader: On Tuesday, Correa was caught putting his arm around Carson Williams, a 19-year old Rays prospect, after the youngster committed an error in a spring trai...13908Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:16:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/2023-preseason-all-al-central-team-hitters-r13903/Catcher: Salvador Perez, KCR ZiPS projection: .267/.310/.499, 28 HR, 84 RBI, 3.2 fWAR After a dominant season in 2021, Salvador Perez struggled with a thumb injury in 2022 and saw his OPS drop by over 100 points. Even still, Perez enjoyed a 110 OPS+ season with 23 bombs. Now fully healthy...13903Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:19:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/sonny-gray-twins-pitcher-usage-comments/Over the weekend, we learned that Sonny Gray will not be the Twins' Opening Day starter – that honor will instead go to newcomer Pablo López on Thursday in Kansas City. Gray will, however, get the nod for the home opener a week later. There's little question he is viewed as the veteran leader on...13915Mon, 27 Mar 2023 02:47:08 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/ober-optioned-as-opening-day-roster-becomes-more-clear-r13909/The Twins will open their season on Thursday afternoon in Kansas City. After making four roster transactions on Sunday morning, it appears their Opening Day roster is pretty well set. Of course, the Twins front office will be talking to other teams about trades as well as watching the waiver wir...13909Sun, 26 Mar 2023 18:18:10 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-predictions-2023-duran-gallo-ryan-buxton/Many baseball writers will make predictions in the coming weeks as Opening Day continues to creep closer. There is a fine line between what one person views as bold and what another person views as reasonable. Every year, weird things happen that go against logic and previous trends. Here are fo...13901Sun, 26 Mar 2023 16:13:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/byron-buxton-is-worth-it-r13900/Byron Buxton sat out a majority of spring training games to many fans' dismay before debuting at DH last week. Buxton’s appearance indicated a readiness for Opening Day but was quickly followed by news that he wouldn’t be playing in the field to begin the season.  Byron Buxton is a dyn...13900Sun, 26 Mar 2023 12:19:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/is-jovani-moran-being-overlooked-in-the-twins-pen-r13892/Rocco Baldelli left spring training last year thinking Taylor Rogers would be his "closer." Last March, he was likely assuming that Jhoan Duran would be a starter in St. Paul. Neither of those things proved to be true, and the bullpen was in flux for most of the season. Emilio Pagan was a s...13892Sat, 25 Mar 2023 15:22:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-2022-roster-flaws-even-more-evident-after-the-2023-offseason-r13891/One year ago, the Twins began the 2022 season with high hopes of bouncing back from a terrible 2021 campaign. Minnesota added veteran pitchers like Chris Archer, Dylan Bundy, and Joe Smith to fill out the pitching staff. The team also cleared Josh Donaldson off their books by dealing him to the...13891Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:17:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/matt-lawton-talks-twins-tk-puckett-peds-and-much-more-r13896/Just months before the Twins won their most recent World Series championship, the Minnesota Twins drafted a second baseman out of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College named Matt Lawton. While top picks from that draft came with high floors and ceilings, first-round picks David McCarty (Stanf...13896Sat, 25 Mar 2023 11:19:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-bullpen-darkhorses-de-leon-laweryson-ortega/As spring training winds down, we’re starting to get a better picture of what the Twins’ roster is going to look like when the team heads north to Kansas City on March 30th. Piece by piece, the depth chart is being whittled down. However, not every player that gets chipped off in March is bound...13898Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:18:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/is-the-wbc-even-worth-it-r13895/For three weeks, most of the baseball world celebrated the multicultural festivities of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) that took place in four different cities across three countries and two continents. The tournament had some of the world’s best players and broke, with ease, all of its attend...13895Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:15:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/who-are-the-twins-road-warriors-pitcher-edition-r13882/Where a baseball game is played has an impact on the game itself. This shouldn't surprise anyone. How much of an impact does location have on player success? That question is still up for debate. Park Factors continue to advance in quality and scope year after year. While we haven't seen this me...13882Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:22:01 +0000