https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/799/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/your-dad-weighing-options-for-mispronouncing-marwin-gonzalez-r7545/“He was pretty animated,” said Your Stepmom. “He kept going on about how they have all this money to spend and that this Merlin fellow wasn’t going to help them beat Cleveland.” Your Dad, who was heard discussing the effectiveness of Twins reliever “Travis Hamburger” last Labor Day weekend at a fa...7545Fri, 22 Feb 2019 12:05:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/musical-chairs-in-the-bullpen-r7544/The Twins will almost surely break camp with just seven relievers, or eight if you count Martin Perez, since a fifth pitcher isn’t needed until April 16th. With Perez starting in the bullpen, and with very little buzz around camp regarding “Openers” there is no good reason to carry eight other bul...7544Fri, 22 Feb 2019 03:44:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/projections-opportunity-and-where-it-stands-in-minnesota-r7539/Projection systems are built on input parameters; there’s no emotion or belief in what could be possible. Although the Twins front office has carried the water that 2019 almost solely relies on Byron Buxton and Miguel Sano, the computer isn’t playing with that same fire. Sano and Buxton both proje...7539Thu, 21 Feb 2019 18:45:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/report-from-the-fort-looking-for-a-bounceback-part-3-r7542/This is the third part of a three-part series of interviews with Twins bounceback candidates. Part 1 | Part 2 “After I came back from the injury, I was good,” claims Schoop. “I’ve got no excuses. I was good.” But there were after effects unrelated to the pain. “Everybody told me that my swing cha...7542Thu, 21 Feb 2019 02:31:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-have-to-do-something-about-the-bullpen-r7541/Here’s hoping anyone who ends up converting takes quickly to the role. They won’t exactly be joining the most experienced bullpen out there. Take a look at the 40-man roster, there’s an alarming lack of arms with prior MLB experience pitching out of the bullpen. Here’s the entire list of pitchers...7541Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:15:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/report-from-the-fort-looking-for-a-bounceback-part-2-r7540/This is the second part of a three-part series of interviews with Twins bounceback candidates. Part 1. Maybe that’s because we saw it happen, or maybe we already invested our emotions in the turnaround last year, so there’s nothing left. Whatever the reason, I don’t think it’s because the player...7540Wed, 20 Feb 2019 03:22:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/report-from-the-fort-looking-for-a-bounceback-part-1-r7538/Jake Odorizzi Almost exactly a year ago, the Minnesota Twins traded for Jake Odorizzi, coming off (for him) a substandard year for the Tampa Bay Rays. Mind you, that meant a 4.14 ERA, which looked pretty good for a pitching-starved Twins franchise. I was especially optimistic about him given that...7538Tue, 19 Feb 2019 04:26:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/mailbag-extension-palooza-infield-log-jam-new-spring-format-r7535/https://twitter.com/FinsTwinsLakers/status/1096825629440385034 After locking up Jorge Polanco and Max Kelper last week, the Twins could still lock up another piece of their young core before the season begins. I believe the Twins lock up one more piece before the season begins and I think it will...7535Tue, 19 Feb 2019 03:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/video-willians-astudillo-just-took-jose-berrios-deep-r7536/Astudillo wasn't done, by the way. A bit later he faced Trevor May and did the same, pulling the ball into the right field berm.7536Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:45:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/a-guide-to-and-plea-for-attending-twins-spring-training-r7534/When I boarded the plane at MSP that day, I looked at my phone and it was -10 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 42 degrees below the average high for that day. And when I landed in Fort Myers it was 80 and sunny and I was thunderstruck by just how dumb I had been for the previous 47 years of my life....7534Mon, 18 Feb 2019 05:35:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-amp-the-geek-ep-412-live-from-fort-myers33-and-minneapolis-r7532/http://traffic.libsyn.com/gleemangeek/Ep_412_Final.mp3?dest-id=745907532Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:05:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-might-a-jose-berrios-contract-extension-look-like-r7531/That the Twins locked up Max Kepler and Jorge Polanco to long-term extensions doesn’t give us any clue what it might take to lock up other young, core Twins players. We only know that Derek Falvey and Thad Levine have made it clear that there have been other conversations with other players. But a...7531Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:42:00 +0000