https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/872/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-happens-if-the-twins-can39t-sign-yu-darvish-r6293/Every team in baseball has to do a little re-tooling each offseason, but as it stands right now, the Twins will have a number of big decisions to make at the end of 2018. Joe Mauer, Brian Dozier and Eduardo Escobar are all due to become free agents while Ervin Santana has a $14 million option. It...6293Wed, 27 Dec 2017 20:02:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-minnesota-twins-zach-duke-and-best-practices-r6292/When Duke transitioned into a reliever, he noticed that the majority of the bullpenners were chucking mid-90s heat. Duke never averaged a season over 90 miles per hour in his entire career. He needed something that would help him get hitters out, he needed deception. It was while with the Brewers...6292Wed, 27 Dec 2017 05:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-top-20-minnesota-twins-assets-part-1-16-20-r6291/20. Alex Kirilloff - OF (20) The pure hitting talent is unmistakable. It convinced the Twins to select Kirilloff with the 15th overall pick in the 2016 draft, and then to send him straight to advanced level rookie ball as an 18-year-old fresh out of high school. The Pittsburgh native answered the...6291Wed, 27 Dec 2017 03:41:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-daily39s-long-term-future-and-writers-r6289/We haven’t had the success we anticipated we could have in developing a large group of independent Twins writers. When we designed Twins Daily, we attempted to create an organic model for growth. Readers become commenters, and eventually they try writing, which they do on their blogs, and then we...6289Tue, 26 Dec 2017 13:52:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/mike-napoli-the-missing-piece-r6288/The Napoli Connection Derek Falvey and Thad Levine both got to know Napoli during his time in Cleveland and Texas. There were rumors of the Twins being interested last off-season but he decided to return to Texas. During the 2017 campaign, he hit .193/.285/.428 with 29 home runs in 124 games. Whil...6288Tue, 26 Dec 2017 03:10:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-to-sign-zach-duke-maintaining-interest-in-mike-napoli-r6287/It wasn't too long ago Duke was a hot commodity on the free agent market. In November of 2014, Duke landed a three-year, $15 million deal to pitch for the White Sox. He was eventually traded to the Cardinals in mid-2016. From 2014-16 he was among the more consistently effective relievers in baseb...6287Tue, 26 Dec 2017 03:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/tunnels-and-the-hall-mauer-and-santana-r6282/As of this writing, 72 ballots have been made public (or roughly 17% of the total vote). The former Twins ace has yet to garner a single nod, and while I’d hope he gets at least a few, it’s all but certain he’ll fall below the necessary 5% to get a second go-round. While it’s fair for the argument...6282Fri, 22 Dec 2017 03:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/tampa-open-to-trades-r6285/Marc Topkin of The Tampa Bay Times reported that the Rays are “open to trading most of their higher-paid players.” Those players would include former All-Star Chris Archer, a starting pitcher, and closer Alex Colome. Both of these players are going to come at a high cost. There are other options i...6285Fri, 22 Dec 2017 02:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/building-a-super-bullpen-r6284/What Makes A Super Bullpen? https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/943632267708157957 The Rockies have been aggressive with their bullpen plan this offseason. Bryan Shaw and Jake McGee have both already been added in free agency. Greg Holland served as the team’s closer in 2017 and he could still re...6284Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:15:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-do-the-twins-see-in-tyler-kinley-r6281/When the deadline arrived for teams to protect players from the Rule 5 draft, Minnesota conspicuously added only three, leaving a number of vulnerable prospects exposed. Among them were several hard-throwing relievers in their mid-20s, including Nick Burdi and Luke Bard, both of whom ended up bein...6281Wed, 20 Dec 2017 04:25:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-prospect-spotlight-series-travis-blankenhorn-r6280/Ranking prospects is a difficult task and everyone has a bit of a different methodology. This series isn’t meant to be critical of any of the other lists out there, it’s all about presenting a positive case for the featured player. We started at the bottom of my list and worked up from there. Here...6280Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:58:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/diving-into-the-offseason-an-eduardo-escobar-extension-r6279/While the priority should likely be working out long-term deals for the young core, like Byron Buxton, Miguel Sano, Eddie Rosario, Max Kepler and Jose Berrios, etc., it should not keep the Twins front office from also working toward - or at least having the conversation about - an extension for Ed...6279Tue, 19 Dec 2017 02:44:00 +0000