https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/406/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/are-the-twins-right-in-trusting-miranda-at-the-hot-corner-r13297/Throughout the majority of his minor league career, Minnesota prospect Jose Miranda has played at third base. When he was eventually promoted to the big leagues in early 2022, it came with the caveat that Derek Falvey and Thad Levine had acquired veteran Gio Urshela to be Rocco Baldelli’s third...13297Fri, 25 Nov 2022 13:45:03 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/thanksgiving-baseball-twins/Coming off such an uncompetitive 2021 Major League Baseball season, there’s no doubt that Rocco Baldelli and the Twins front office hoped to turn the page in 2022. For a matter of months it looked like they would be the darling of a bad division, but ultimately, injury and poor performance caugh...13299Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:04:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-free-agent-starters-rodon-eovaldi/  When you look at data around aging curves for major-league pitchers, it matches up to what you'd expect: as a group, they are most effective between the ages of roughly 24 to 28 before inevitably experiencing decline at varying scales.  This makes sense, of course. As pitchers get ol...13305Thu, 24 Nov 2022 02:09:17 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/rotation-overview-injuries-health/Rocco Baldelli has to be feeling good about having some starting pitchers put down in ink. Derek Falvey and Thad Levine haven’t stocked the Minnesota rotation with a high-level of talent in recent years, largely opting for upside plays. Now the Twins have at least a few arms that should be seen...13295Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:37:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/luis-arraez-contract-extension/Minnesota has multiple items on its offseason checklist, including finding a shortstop, upgrading the offense, and adding to the bullpen. It's also the time of year when teams can approach players about long-term extensions. The Twins have kept their payroll clean for multiple years into the fu...13298Wed, 23 Nov 2022 13:07:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/infield-defense-problems/There’s no denying that Minnesota’s front office is currently navigating a way forward without Gio Urshela, and they’ve yet to bring back star shortstop Carlos Correa. That leaves plenty of questions on the dirt, and it’s there that Rocco Baldelli’s team struggled the most a season ago. As much...13294Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:35:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/kenta-maeda-2023-rotation-bullpen/First, a quick catch-up on Kenta Maeda's history for the unfamiliar.  Signed in 2016 out of Japan by the Dodgers, his contract was laden with incentives due to questions about the health of his elbow.  Over the course of his time in Los Angeles, Maeda was often shuffled between rotatio...13301Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:25:25 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/kyle-farmer-fielding-splits/Kyle Farmer is, to be kind, an obscure baseball presence. A former catcher, raised in the blue-blood Dodgers farm system—something he has in common with his Twins garlicky brother in Kyle—Farmer’s major league impact has been a ripple, not a wave. There was the time he walked off the Giants in h...13293Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:15:02 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/sonny-gray-contract-extension/Minnesota has multiple items on its offseason checklist, including finding a shortstop, upgrading the offense, and adding to the bullpen. It's also the time of year when teams can approach players about long-term extensions. The Twins have kept their payroll clean for multiple years into the fut...13290Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:48:14 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-the-geek-farmer-urshela-pagan-and-new-twins-uniforms-r13296/13296Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:10:01 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/kyle-farmer-trade-twins-defensive-role/  Acquired in exchange for minor-league pitcher Casey Legumina last week, Kyle Farmer has followed an interesting career path in terms of defensive development. Formerly a star high school baseball star and quarterback (he made a cameo in The Blind Side!), he played shortstop at the Univers...13288Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:02:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-happened-to-jose-mirandas-swing-during-the-2022-season-excerpt-r13289/Before we start disparaging Miranda’s late-season performance, let’s consider some of his strengths.  His 117 weighted runs created plus – a rate stat that takes into consideration park factors and current run environment of the league – was the seventh-best by a Minnesota Twins rookie and...13289Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:52:00 +0000