https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/858/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/cle-8-min-1-salazar-dominates-cleveland-hits-5-hrs-r5980/Win Expectancy (via Fangraphs) Bartolo Colon limited Cleveland to three runs over 5.0 innings, but was incredibly lucky to do so. All three runs were scored on solo homers, but Colon also walked four batters and gave up seven hits. In the first inning, Cleveland got a man on second with no outs...5980Wed, 16 Aug 2017 03:29:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/feeling-the-draft-analyzing-minnesota39s-stellar-early-returns-r5978/5978Wed, 16 Aug 2017 01:52:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-thread-twins-v-cleveland-815-710pm-ct-r5977/1. Cleveland and Grover – I don’t know how many of you have memorized all of the towns in Minnesota but in case you have not… there is a Cleveland, Minnesota. Its 66 miles southwest of Minneapolis and 1,634 miles northeast of Tucson, Arizona. With that close proximity to Tucson, the Sonoran hot do...5977Tue, 15 Aug 2017 11:40:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/bullpen-ramblings-r5976/The Twins bullpen has not been good again this year. Here are the numbers: Bullpen ERA: 4.53 (25th) Strikeouts: 345 (26th) Walks: 132 (7th) Batting Average Against: .269 (30th) Also, the Twins bullpen ranks seventh in Innings pitched with 407.1 innings. That is largely the fault of the starting ro...5976Tue, 15 Aug 2017 07:19:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/playoffs-or-bust-molitor39s-murky-future-r5974/The Positive Molitor has managed three seasons and in two of those years he has had the Twins in surprise contention for the playoffs. During his rookie managerial season, the Twins fought off their recent losing trend as the club was in the playoff hunt until the season's last weekend. An 83-79 r...5974Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-amp-the-geek-ep-328-wild-week-wild-card-r5973/http://traffic.libsyn.com/gleemangeek/2017-08-12_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=745905973Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:44:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-trendspotting-who39s-hot-who39s-not-r5972/WHO'S HOT? 1. Eddie Rosario Brian Dozier could've easily topped this list, of course – he's got 10 homers and a .630 slugging percentage since the All-Star break – but his second-half surging almost feels routine now. A dominant Dozier down the stretch is like clockwork these days. I've been much...5972Mon, 14 Aug 2017 02:20:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/min-6-det-4-twins-match-2016-win-total-with-46-games-left-to-play-r5970/Win Expectancy (via Fangraphs) Brian Dozier led off the game with a home run, his sixth big fly already this month. That’s now 19 of Dozier’s 23 homers this season that have been solo shots. Miguel Sano also homered, driving a two-run shot in the third inning. In contrast, 15 of Sano’s 26 homers...5970Sun, 13 Aug 2017 21:06:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/det-12-min-11-twins-lose-crazy-game-on-walk-off-hr-r5968/Win Expectancy (via Fangraphs) Thanks in large part to a James McCann grand slam, the Tigers jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first inning. This game appeared to be headed toward another one of those ugly, one-sided losses we were accustomed to seeing earlier this season, but a monster third inni...5968Sun, 13 Aug 2017 02:57:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/min-9-det-4-we-comin%E2%80%99333333-r5965/Win Expectancy (via Fangraphs) The Twins lineup is suddenly a finely-tuned machine. Over their six-game winning streak they’ve scored 42 runs, an average of seven per game. The big blows tonight were home runs from Eddie Rosario and Max Kepler, who both had three hits. Joe Mauer also had three h...5965Sat, 12 Aug 2017 03:01:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-thread-twins-tigers-811610pm-ct-r5964/1. Detroit – There has been a lot of talk about the wall that Trump wants to build along the Mexico border, but I have another idea and it’s brilliant… (like usual)[sic]*. Try to follow along if you can. We never worry about Canadians sneaking into the U.S. and stealing all the good jobs. They use...5964Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:08:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/min-7-mil-2-5-alive33-r5962/Win Expectancy (via Fangraphs) Now that Jorge Polanco is out of his funk, the only slumping Twins hitters are Joe Mauer (.194 average over last four weeks) and Byron Buxton (.559 OPS since returning from the DL). Well, better make that were Joe Mauer and Byron Buxton. Joe and Buxton had three hi...5962Fri, 11 Aug 2017 03:47:00 +0000