https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/841/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/nathan39s-improbable-minor-league-journey-r6036/The San Francisco Giants started Joe Nathan's professional baseball career by making him a sixth-round pick in the 1995 MLB Draft. Nathan played his high school and college career as a shortstop and he became only the second player ever selected out of Stony Brook University. It was a humble begin...6036Fri, 01 Sep 2017 04:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/colon-highlights-twins-greatest-asset-r6035/In a surprising move, Minnesota ended up being the team to give Colon another chance. By July 7, Paul Molitor’s squad had already run out ten different starters. The team was competing, but there was a revolving door on the mound. Needing more than a second wave of starting depth, Derek Falvey an...6035Fri, 01 Sep 2017 02:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/versatile-goodrum-gets-september-call-r6037/To entice Goodrum to stick around, the Twins offered him an invitation to major league spring training. He spent about a month with the club this spring, playing sparingly, but learning from the big league coaches and players. He fought a little shoulder issue in camp, but he hit .375 (6-16) and i...6037Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/min-5-chw-4-twins-win-on-walk-off-hbp-r6038/Snapshot (chart via Fangraphs) On his second pitch on the ninth, Belisle gave up a crushing go-ahead homer to Alen Hanson. He also walked the next batter, but to his credit Belisle righted the ship and struck out three of the next four batters he faced to limit the damage. There was an intentio...6038Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:56:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/whiff-of-success-gibson-making-bats-miss-r6034/In 2005, the Twins used their first-round pick to draft Matt Garza, a pitcher who has gone on to throw 1,700 major-league innings in an altogether successful career (albeit one spent mostly outside of Minnesota). Since then, the organization has used 10 first-round selections (including supplement...6034Thu, 31 Aug 2017 04:39:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/min-11-chw-1-rosario-hits-2-hrs-buxton-exits-with-injury-r6033/Snapshot (chart via Fangraphs) As fun a night this was for the offense, seeing a starter completely have his way with a team is as beautiful a sight as there is for a Twins fan. Berrios struck out 11 batters over 7.0 shutout innings. He gave up just four hits and a walk. Maybe the most encouragi...6033Thu, 31 Aug 2017 04:15:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-minor-league-report-830-mejia-strong-in-rehab-outing-kernels-impress-in-front-of-hunter-r6032/Transactions Randy Dobnak was promoted to Cedar Rapids from Elizabethton. An undrafted free agent this year, Dobnak had a 2.39 ERA over 26.1 innings with the E-Twins. RED WINGS REPORT Scranton 8, Rochester 4 Box Score Mejia, seeing his first live game action since Aug. 8, struck out four batters o...6032Thu, 31 Aug 2017 02:57:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/min-6-chw-4-polanco-does-it-all-r6030/Snapshot (chart via Fangraphs) What a terror Jorge has been against Chicago. Seven of Polanco’s nine home runs this season have come against the White Sox. He made another special memory against them tonight, as it was the first multi-homer game of Polanco’s career -- hitting one from each side....6030Wed, 30 Aug 2017 03:43:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/from-prospects-to-playoff-push-r6029/If you’re looking for a blueprint for how this is supposed to work, just look back 20 years in to Twins history. The Twins made trades, drafted well, signed appropriate free agents who could then be traded later in the season for more prospects. Starting in 1998, the Twins called up rookie after r...6029Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-thread-twins-v-white-sox-829-710pm-ct-r6028/1. Chisago City – This town of 5,000 plus was settled back in the 1850’s by Swedish immigrants. The name of the town means “I Can’t Spell” in Swedish. Einstein proposed the hypothetical possibility of wormholes with his theory of relativity and their existence has not been proven conclusively yet,...6028Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:34:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-minor-league-report-828-rooker-homers-again-r6026/RED WINGS REPORT Rochester 3, Scranton W/B 5 Box Score Felix Jorge gave up five runs in four innings on seven hits. He struck out two. Yohan Pino (two scoreless innings) and Buddy Boshers (two outs) both struck out two in relief. Drew Rucinski recorded the last four outs. Leo Reginatto had two hit...6026Tue, 29 Aug 2017 04:02:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/byron-buxton-from-broken-to-booming-r6024/Broken It's no secret how bad Buxton looked at the plate during the early part of this year. Through the season's first 15 games, he hit .082/.135/.122 with 24 strikeouts. Things started to get a little better in May as he was hitting .171 through May 21 while getting on base over 26% of the time....6024Tue, 29 Aug 2017 03:38:00 +0000