https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/671/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/let%E2%80%99s-go-lg-twins-getting-into-the-kbo-r9456/Why the KBO? Well, they’re actually playing. The KBO season has been up and running for about a month already thanks to a proactive approach by the country, which Time magazine recently acknowledged in an article on the best global responses to COVID-19. It’s been interesting to get a look at base...9456Sun, 14 Jun 2020 02:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/a-sendoff-for-denard-span-r9453/Span was taken 20th overall in the 2002 draft. It took him a few years to make it to the big leagues, but he got his chance in 2008 and put together a nice rookie season with a .294/.387/.432 triple slash. He would play 4 more seasons in a Twins uniform and would become one of the true stud leadof...9453Sun, 14 Jun 2020 01:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/how-my-hometown-became-the-site-of-an-embarrassing-moment-in-twins-history-r9440/One event in particular makes you embarrassed to any way be associated with the person or organization that they represented. Until recently, I had always simply viewed the event as one of a couple links back to my hometown of Waseca, MN from the Twins. In the events of the last couple weeks, ther...9440Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/name-brand-only-ranking-twins-daily%E2%80%99s-best-names-r9444/That’s right. Not all writers are created equal (unfortunately for yours truly) and neither are their names. Here’s my attempt at ranking our writers according to the aesthetic virtue of their names. 5) Cooper Carlson Alliteration gives names a poetic nature and Twins Daily is full of them with Co...9444Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-continue-to-load-the-corners-in-2020-draft-r9452/Slugger Sabato surprisingly falls Just prior to the start of the first round, Keith Law wrote that the Rangers had all but picked Aaron Sabato at No.14, a slugging first baseman from North Carolina. The Rangers instead chose Mississippi State second baseman Justin Foscue, whom Law ranked as the No...9452Sat, 13 Jun 2020 01:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-in-the-2000s-the-2019-season-r9443/We're wrapping up a 20-part series in which we look back at each Minnesota Twins season of the 2000s. A rotation of different writers will highlight key moments, unearth forgotten details, and share nostalgic tales from the past two decades leading up to the present. This installment covers the 2...9443Sat, 13 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-2019-draft-where-are-they-now-r9446/After a great 2019 season the Twins slid all the way down to 27th in the picking order for 2020. Falvey and Thad Levine have a brief but strong history of identifying talent for the organization however, and the hope would be that this season is no different. Taking a look back on the guys they ta...9446Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/let%E2%80%99s-field-minnesota%E2%80%99s-all-late-round-team-r9438/FanGraphs went through this exercise while using players drafted (and signed) in the last decade. For the Twins version, it was a little more critical to go further back throughout the team’s history. Spoiler alert... There haven't been that many good starting pitchers in team history. Players wer...9438Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-in-the-2000s-the-2018-season-r9442/We're running a 20-part series in which we look back at each Minnesota Twins season of the 2000s. A rotation of different writers will highlight key moments, unearth forgotten details, and share nostalgic tales from the past two decades leading up to the present. This installment covers the 2018 s...9442Thu, 11 Jun 2020 03:41:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/mike-trout-and-3-other-stars-the-twins-passed-on-in-the-mlb-draft-r9437/In this exercise of “What could have been”, we’ll be looking back at drafts from the past to see which players the Minnesota Twins reasonably could have drafted. To define ‘reasonably’, we’ll be looking at players who were taken within three picks following the Minnesota Twins first round selectio...9437Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-in-the-2000s-the-2017-season-r9432/We're running a 20-part series in which we look back at each Minnesota Twins season of the 2000s. A rotation of different writers will highlight key moments, unearth forgotten details, and share nostalgic tales from the past two decades leading up to the present. This installment covers the 2017 s...9432Wed, 10 Jun 2020 02:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/honey-i-shrunk-the-season-a-definitive-timeline-of-every-mlb-proposal-so-far-r9436/*Critical professional Non-MLB sports' events denoted in italics March 12th: MLB season is indefinitely postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic According to Mark Feinsand of MLB.com, Major League Baseball announced that the 2020 regular season will be delayed by at least 2 weeks March 26th: Co...9436Wed, 10 Jun 2020 02:00:00 +0000