https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/640/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-flashback-recap-oliva-becomes-first-dh-to-hr-blyleven-goes-the-distance-on-22nd-birthday-461973-r9200/Twins 8, Oakland 3 Box Score Blyleven: 9 IP, 10 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 7 K Home Runs: Oliva (1), Holt (1), Hisle (1) Multi-hit games: Hisle (4-for-5, HR, 2B), Oliva (2-for-4, HR), Carew (2-for-5, 2B) Top 3 WPA: Hisle .182, Oliva .170, Blyleven .135 Chart via Baseball-Reference There’s possibly no b...9200Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/now-and-then-for-the-minnesota-twins-quality-coaches-matter-r9196/The 2019 Minnesota Twins benefitted from having some very good coaches to help support Rocco Baldelli in his first season as the Twins manager. That benefit was noticed across the league as we saw James Rowson (Marlins), Jeremy Hefner (Mets), and Derek Shelton (Pirates) picked away by opposing clu...9196Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-and-the-geek-ep-473-alternate-realities-r9203/PLAY GLEEMAN AND THE GEEK9203Mon, 06 Apr 2020 12:39:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/ranking-the-5-mvp-seasons-from-minnesota-twins-history-r9201/5. Justin Morneau | 2006 .321/.375/.559 (.934 OPS/140 OPS+) 34 HR 130 RBI 4.3 bWAR On June 7 of the 2006 season, Justin Morneau was benched by Ron Gardenhire for a game against the Seattle Mariners after he had started the season with a .236 batting average. From that day forward, Morneau bat...9201Mon, 06 Apr 2020 02:04:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-show-must-go-on-checking-in-at-the-quarter-point-r9202/To get caught up on what we're doing here, you can check out the introductory post in the series for an explanation of the premise and setup. But the quick version is this: We're playing a progressive simulated Twins season on MLB The Show 20 on PS4, and y'all are helping guide the ship. In each...9202Mon, 06 Apr 2020 01:03:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-flashback-recap-stewart-hits-walk-off-homer-mauer-shines-in-mlb-debut-452004-r9197/Box Score Radke: 6 IP, 11 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 3 K Home Runs: Stewart (1) Multi-hit games: Stewart (2-for-5, HR, BB), Mauer (2-for-3, 2 BB), Mientkiewicz (2-for-5, 2B) Top 3 WPA: Mauer .314, Stewart .267, Koskie .187 *Chart via FanGraphs The Twins entered the bottom of the eighth inning trailing 4-...9197Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/minnesota-twins-mlb-the-show-september-simulation-game-163-r9199/Check out the previous editions of this series: April, May, June, July, August. Game 163: Indians (102-60) @ Twins (102-60) Minnesota SP: Michael Pineda (4-0, 2.54 ERA) Cleveland SP: Aaron Civale (10-6, 4.16) Twins won 9 of last 10 games to get to game 163 The first inning got off to a rough s...9199Sun, 05 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/snubbed-revisiting-johan-santana39s-one-and-done-hall-of-fame-case-r9195/Reason to withhold votes for Santana is obvious. Not throwing a pitch past your age 33 season is a bruise to your resume. Santana laid it all on the line in 2012 to complete a 134 pitch no-hitter with the Mets. After posting a 2.35 ERA to begin the season, he followed up his no-hitter with an 8.27...9195Sun, 05 Apr 2020 01:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/just-how-disciplined-are-twins-hitters-r9184/Wouldn’t it be nice if we could quantify plate discipline and package it into a nice little number, maybe even a “plus” number like wRC+, where 100 is league average? On my own I wouldn’t know where to begin, but luckily Ben Clemens of FanGraphs has us covered. Clemens recently attempted to quanti...9184Sat, 04 Apr 2020 02:03:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins39-top-outfield-prospects-shine-in-shortened-spring-r9188/Kirilloff stays hot MLB Pipeline ranked Kirilloff as the No.10 prospect in baseball heading into the 2019 season. The 6-foot-2 inch lefty struggled with a wrist injury for most of the summer. He still mashed righties (.302 BA, .816 OPS) but struggled to hit lefties (.244 BA, .634 OPS), or for muc...9188Sat, 04 Apr 2020 01:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/choose-your-mvp-re-evaluating-the-1965-mvp-race-r9194/At 25-years old, Zoilo Versalles became the first ever Minnesota Twins player to win the American League MVP. Versalles was a near-unanimous MVP, by claiming 19 out of 20 first place votes, ceding the only other first place vote to fellow teammate and fellow Cuban, Tony Oliva. With all of the adv...9194Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/taylor-rogers-and-the-value-of-the-first-pitch-r9193/Pitching philosophies have evolved over the years as coaches and players have attempted to develop the best way to terrorize hitters. The modern way of doing things on the mound is almost universally now focused on strikeouts. “Pitch-to-contact” might as well be Latin phrase with how little it is...9193Fri, 03 Apr 2020 12:00:00 +0000