https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/749/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/by-the-numbers-the-twins%E2%80%99-biggest-missed-opportunity-r7501/The good news, friends, is that your humble author has done the hard work for you. Over the past few weeks I’ve studied the teams that made the 2018 postseason in an effort to better understand to what degree they relied on homegrown talent (i.e. drafted and signed internationally) and external t...7501Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/how-the-twins-are-preparing-for-the-impact-of-injuries-r7499/First of all, in this stats oriented sports era you can find numbers to quantify virtually anything within the game. In 2017, Roster Resource came up with a very interesting metric to show which teams have been hit hardest by injuries, as explained here by Jason Martinez. It’s called Roster Effect...7499Sun, 03 Feb 2019 19:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/show-me-the-money-and-the-wins-r7498/Given that we’re Twins fans here, payroll has never been a topic of discussion. No one has ever been annoyed at the lack of big spending in free agency and is always perfectly OK with how the front office allocates their resources, especially this year. Free agency is supposed to be an opportunit...7498Sun, 03 Feb 2019 18:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/card-no-329-r7497/It was 1986 and, I, the nine-year-old boy, didn’t know much about his home team Minnesota Twins. I was vaguely aware of the neighboring rivals, the Milwaukee Brewers, but had not formed any particular allegiance to them. I did love the game of baseball; I had been playing the sport since I was old...7497Sun, 03 Feb 2019 17:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twinsfest-2019-joe-mauer-white-glove-tour-r7496/Clyde decided to have Joe unpack the bag and take the group through what each item was and talk about his career. We didn't know this when we bid on the tour and I suspect had folks known, it would have gone higher. This flickr album has all the photos with detailed descriptions. I wasn't suppose...7496Sun, 03 Feb 2019 16:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/who39s-the-fourth-outfielder-r7500/We’re going to assume the starting outfielders for the 2019 Minnesota Twins will be Eddie Rosario in left field, Byron Buxton in center field and Max Kepler in right field. Is that a certainty? No, injuries are always a possibility, but that’s not what we’re discussing today. It appears the fourth...7500Sun, 03 Feb 2019 15:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/minnesota39s-super-bowls-and-world-series-r7494/There was something special about that team. Camilo Pascual on the mound with Pedro Ramos, Kralick, and Kaat made a good rotation and we even had the token Gopher – Paul Giel on the squad. At bat all the sluggers were there – Lemon, Killebrew, Allison, Battey, Versalles, and the spark plug, Billy...7494Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/2019-super-bowl-predictions-r7493/Let’s get right to it. Here are the Super Bowl predictions, in the order they were received. I will continue to update this document right up until Game Time as I will receive more predictions to that point. TC Bear (Twins mascot) - Tough call here...... here’s my thinking. So both the Pats and Ra...7493Sat, 02 Feb 2019 20:13:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/there%E2%80%99s-hope-for-a-martin-perez-bounce-back-r7490/Before his awful 2018 season, Perez was a reliable backend of the rotation starter for the Texas Rangers. In both 2016 and 2017, Perez put up consecutive 2.1 fWAR seasons after combining for a 4.60 ERA across 383 2/3 innings. While these numbers don’t exactly jump off the map, anytime you can get...7490Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:57:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/fernando-romero-and-designing-a-slider-from-hell-r7491/The Twins acknowledged that Romero is currently a two-pitch pitcher. Technically, he has three types of fastballs (but two movement patterns), a promising slider, and a developing change-up but, functionally, he has a fastball and a slider. Because of this, the front office believes he is better...7491Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:54:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/a-big-breakout-for-minnesota%E2%80%99s-big-three-r7489/There’s no denying that baseball isn’t an individual or star driven sport. Every single team in the league should be jumping at an opportunity to ink either Bryce Harper or Manny Machado. Alone, no player is pushing any team to the postseason, and a World Series is a by-product of a 25-man roster...7489Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/keys-to-2019-rocco39s-modern-managing-r7488/Twins owner Jim Pohlad said Paul Molitor would continue to manage the club when Derek Falvey and Thad Levine took over the Twins front office. Molitor would win the AL Manager of the Year Award in 2017 as the Twins surprisingly qualified for the final Wild Card spot. It was hard to dump him at tha...7488Thu, 31 Jan 2019 03:30:00 +0000