https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/872/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/report-from-the-fort-batting-order-time33-r5451/In a recent MNSPN podcast, Roy Smalley talked a little about a time in his career when he batted cleanup. He was a team player, so he was happy to do what the team wanted, but he was never comfortable there, and he admitted it was partly because he was kind of embarrassed to be batting there. He k...5451Sun, 26 Mar 2017 23:47:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/report-from-the-fort-ups-and-downs-r5450/Except for a couple of batters, he made things looked effortless. Whether that’s a good sign or not for the regular season remains to be seen. Gibson cautioned that he never knows what the other team is working on, and it might be that they’re working on something that gives Gibson an advantage. T...5450Sun, 26 Mar 2017 21:44:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/report-from-the-fort-returns-and-concerns-r5449/Vargas “Hobbled” In Friday night’s game, recently returned designated hitter candidate Kennys Vargas fouled a pitch off his foot or shin. He stayed in the game, but when he hit a fly ball to the outfield, he pulled up limping halfway to first base and left the game. After the game, we were told th...5449Sun, 26 Mar 2017 03:16:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/report-from-the-fort-berrios-gone-duffey-v-mejia-r5448/The baseball nerds swarmed this morning; just ask Twins CBO Derek Falvey, Manager Paul Molitor, Director of Baseball Research Jack Goin, scouts, players, most of the Twins Cities baseball media nerds and several Twins Daily supporters. They were almost all huddled around picnic tables behind the b...5448Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:22:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/report-from-the-fort-pitching-focus-r5447/A Surprise Demotion The big news of the day was that right-handed reliever JT Chargois, who most people expected to make the 25-man roster prior to camp, was optioned to the minors. Mike Berardino has Twins’ manager Paul Molitor’s quotes on the move from before tonight’s game. I hate this move to...5447Sat, 25 Mar 2017 03:56:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/sold-out-gleeman-amp-the-geek39s-tuesday-taproom-tour-r5434/The Events Join a limited group of 100 fellow Twins fans listening to a special podcast and watching a Twins road game at one of John and Aaron’s favorite local craft beer taprooms with Gleeman and the Geek! Honestly, how many great things are in that last sentence? And it gets better - at each t...5434Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:15:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/can-hector-santiago-elevate-and-dominate-r5445/First impressions are important, but everyone deserves a second chance. Santiago got off to an absolutely rotten start with the Twins, but he ended the season pitching well, and there’s reason to believe he could in line for a bounce-back year. Over his final seven starts of 2016, Santiago posted...5445Fri, 24 Mar 2017 02:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/report-from-the-fort-studying-santana-r5446/So, it might make a little sense to study Ervin Santana, especially given that he should be returning to the Twins spring training rotation soon, if not today. The problem with that is that I’m no expert when it comes to pitching. I get all mixed up about which way a 2-seam fastball moves versus...5446Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:49:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/report-from-the-fort-squeeze-play-r5444/Squeezing The Rotation That squeeze has started and yesterday we saw its first victim when Ryan Vogelsong was granted his release following a conversation with the Twins. There simply is no longer room for the 8th or 9th rotation candidate to throw 75 pitches. “We felt that right now we had a few...5444Thu, 23 Mar 2017 01:39:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/central-intelligence-kansas-city-royals-r5443/Record: 81-81 Runs Scored: 675 Runs Allowed: 712 Pythag W/L: 77-85 Pitching WAR Leader: Danny Duffy Position WAR Leader: Jarrod Dyson Season Recap In mid-June, the Royals completed a sweep of the Cleveland Indians at Kauffman Stadium to pull into a tie for first place in the division. Soon after,...5443Wed, 22 Mar 2017 02:28:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/report-from-the-fort-gibson-starts-vogelsong-departs-r5442/Gibson Steady Twins starting pitcher Kyle Gibson was efficient, which is sometimes code for “not overpowering”, but I mean it in a good way. He was not overpowering, but he mostly controlled the at-bats frequently dictating the counts to the batters. He faced a little adversity in the first inning...5442Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:04:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/report-from-the-fort-from-ks-to-praise-r5441/ByungHo Park ByungHo Park struck out in his first at-bat versus Liriano, though he extended the at-bat seven pitches. It ended on a 93 mph fastball that was called a high-outside corner-catching strike. But the next time Liriano threw a fastball (this one 92 mph and considerably closer to the midd...5441Tue, 21 Mar 2017 03:00:00 +0000