https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/631/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins39-payroll-points-to-six-big-decisions-r9977/Still, through the crud, we can see the Twins wrestling with six big decisions. The first is the biggest, and everything else is dependent on it: Decision 1: How much will the Twins budget in player payroll next year? This is always a small mystery, but we usually have an idea within $10 million o...9977Wed, 14 Oct 2020 02:08:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-daily-2020-awards-most-improved-player-r9976/Most Improved. It is a difficult award to vote on, and this year that was certainly the case. What does it mean? Well, it could be a guy that had a bad first half of the season and really turned it on and showed great improvement as the season went along. Often, it is a player coming off of a disa...9976Wed, 14 Oct 2020 01:47:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/minnesota-should-plunder-another-pirates-pitcher-r9973/As a former first round pick, Musgrove is now a part of his third organization. Drafted by the Blue Jays in 2011, he was dealt to the Houston Astros prior to now having spent the bulk of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The career 4.33 ERA doesn’t do much to jump off the page, but as a guy...9973Wed, 14 Oct 2020 01:03:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/offseason-live-replay-twins-payroll-r9975/Facebook Twitter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlAl6QrBFIk9975Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:35:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/al-central-aftermath-what%E2%80%99s-next-r9968/Cleveland Indians What went right? The Indians seemed to be set up well to find a way to win. Shane Bieber was the American League’s best pitcher for the entire season and the rest of the rotation was strong with Zach Plesac, Carlos Carrasco, and Triston McKenzie making strong contributions. After...9968Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-daily-2020-awards-rookie-of-the-year-r9972/There is always much to learn for a rookie first entering the big-league ranks, but it's a steeper curve for catchers. They not only participate in games, but are essentially asked to run them. Catchers must signal for and interact with every pitch, and (as framing metrics illuminate) they can imp...9972Tue, 13 Oct 2020 01:25:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-year-that-never-was-r9967/The 2020 Twins were set to be unique in the lineage of other Twins teams. Josh Donaldson was the biggest free agent the team had ever acquired, Kenta Maeda was one of the first truly great starting pitchers the team had traded for, and the offense was coming off a season in which they bashed 307 h...9967Mon, 12 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/3-promising-stats-from-the-twins-top-3-returning-starters-r9971/Kenta Maeda led the Twins in innings with 66 ⅔, but issued only 10 walks with zero hit-by-pitches and zero wild pitches. Maeda's control was fairly mediocre over the past two seasons in Los Angeles (3.0 BB/9), and worse as a starter than as a reliever, which might've been among reasons the Dodgers...9971Mon, 12 Oct 2020 01:34:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-2020-all-al-central-team-r9964/Outlined below is how the All-AL Central Team shook out, with the best player from the AL Central recognized at each position. Also outlined below are the preseason selections, the players selected by the selection committee (me) as the best players position-by-position coming into the 2020 season...9964Mon, 12 Oct 2020 01:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-amp-the-geek-ep-496-free-agent-frenzy-r9970/Listen Now Here9970Sun, 11 Oct 2020 18:19:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-twins-should-pursue-starting-pitching-aggressively-in-the-trade-market-this-offseason-r9966/Offseason acquisitions Kenta Maeda, Matt Wisler, and Caleb Theilbar burned the hottest and helped lead the Twins to post the third-best ERA (3.58), give up the fewest home runs (62), and strikeout the fourth most batters (535) in the American League. Maeda evolved into a verifiable ace over the co...9966Sun, 11 Oct 2020 03:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/most-valuable-non-prospect-offensive-trade-pieces-r9965/More often than not we tie top prospects to big name trades because of their potential and years of team control remaining. According to Baseball Reference, the Twins had the 8th oldest line up in 2020 at an average age of 28.7 although the likes of Nelson Cruz and Marwin Gonzalez skew that a litt...9965Sun, 11 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0000