https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/826/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-sign-closer-rodney-to-one-year-deal-r6271/Recently, Twins GM Thad Levine explained that he’s open-minded about his future closer already being on the roster, but made clear he wasn’t keen on throwing any of the internal options directly into that role. Based on this mindset, Rodney is a very logical fit. He doesn’t require an extensive c...6271Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:31:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/johan-santana39s-cooperstown-case-the-missing-cy-young-r6268/Part 1: The Puckett Clause Part 2: The Koufax Argument Part 3: The Missing Cy Young The Cy Young Award is baseball’s highest pitching honor. Some pitchers are in the conversation for the award on a regular basis. For current baseball fans, names like Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer and Justin Verlan...6268Thu, 14 Dec 2017 02:47:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-sign-rhp-michael-pineda-r6269/Pineda stands 6-7 and about 260 pounds. He is a flame-thrower, when healthy. The Twins deal with Pineda is such that he will make $2 million in 2018 and then $8 million in 2019. The move is very similar to the transaction the Cubs made earlier this week when they signed lefty Drew Smyly for two y...6269Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:51:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/interested-in-baseball-research-join-sabr33-r6264/The Halsey Hall Chapter of SABR is based in the Twin Cities and welcomes everyone interested in baseball to come to any of our events. We meet semiannually at our chapter meetings (in the fall and the spring) and have a number of research presentations as well as guest speakers. At our most recent...6264Wed, 13 Dec 2017 03:42:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/winter-meetings-reliever-roulette-r6266/A few popular Twins targets have come off the market this week, with Pat Neshek (Phillies), Brandon Morrow (Cubs), Bryan Shaw (Rockies) and Tommy Hunter (Phillies) all reaching agreements. And while you may be feeling bummed to miss out on some of these names – especially a hometown guy like Neshe...6266Wed, 13 Dec 2017 03:04:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/winter-meetings-search-for-a-starter-r6263/The Twins have two options if they would like to acquire a top-level starting pitcher. They can give up money, a lot of money, to acquire a top free agent starter. It would likely also cost a draft pick. The other option to acquire a starting pitcher is via trade which, of course, costs a number o...6263Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:02:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-does-aaron-slegers-have-in-common-with-jake-arrieta-r6262/Well, among the 562 right-handed pitchers Baseball Savant has data on from 2017, Slegers is one of just three who averaged a release point of at least 6.2 feet vertically and 3.3 feet horizontally. What’s especially surprising is he uses his length more horizontally. Slegers’ vertical release poi...6262Mon, 11 Dec 2017 23:59:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-amp-the-geek-ep-347-zero-to-100-real-quick-r6261/http://traffic.libsyn.com/gleemangeek/Episode_347_-_Zero_to_100_Real_Quick.mp3?dest-id=745906261Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:28:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/4-stories-to-watch-at-the-winter-meetings-r6260/1) Darvish Market Heats Up In late November, Jim Bowden reported that there were six teams legitimately "in" on free agent starter Yu Darvish. It's reasonable to believe the Twins are one of those teams. Thad Levine, who has ties to the right-hander from his days in Texas, has called Darvish a pri...6260Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:55:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/thank-you-moderators33-r6259/About six months after Twins Daily launched, we were close to shutting the forums and comments down. We faced the same challenges that other social media face, and we were losing the battles. We were determined to make this a place where "Don't read the comments" did NOT apply, and would rather lo...6259Sun, 10 Dec 2017 22:02:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/official-winter-meetings-day-0-thread-r6258/Until the last couple of days, it's fair to say that the Hot Stove has been lukewarm at best. Then Shohei Otani made his decision to sign with the Angels. And on Saturday, the Marlins and Yankees agreed to a deal in which reigning National League MVP Giancarlo Stanton will join Aaron Judge and Gar...6258Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:50:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/one-year-in-rebuilt-twins-front-office-is-crushing-it-r6256/When the Twins traded Brandon Kintzler to Washington at the deadline, they added $500,000 in international slot cap space. They later recouped another $3 million by voiding their agreement with Dominican shortstop Jelfry Marte, who failed a physical due to vision issues. These developments enabled...6256Fri, 08 Dec 2017 02:59:00 +0000