https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/874/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/st-paul-saints-the-long-road-home-r5694/Kansas City T-Bones (May 26-28) When playing at home, it has almost been a lock that the Saints would come away with the series victory. The Kansas City T-Bones must not have been told, with the away team taking two of three from the Saints in front of a packed house every night. The first two gam...5694Mon, 12 Jun 2017 00:55:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/hunter-greene39s-trouble-with-the-curve-r5695/Believe it or not, there are good reasons for the Twins to pass on Greene (as noted recently by Nick Nelson in his excellent profile). Most seem to be concerned with his injury potential and while that may be one of them, we have to remember that almost all pitchers are a high injury risk to some...5695Sun, 11 Jun 2017 23:51:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-3-san-francisco-2-dozier-vargas-power-twins-behind-solid-start-from-berrios-r5690/Twins 3, Giants 2 Box Score Win Expectancy (via Fangraphs) In Berrios’ turbulent 2016 season with the Twins not much went right, but one thing he struggled with in particular was getting the third out. It seemed he could never stop the bleeding. He gave up an .840 OPS with no outs, .817 OPS with...5690Sun, 11 Jun 2017 01:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-4-san-francisco-0-superman-santana-r5688/Twins 4, Giants 0 Box Score Win Expectancy (via Fangraphs) You don’t make it through a complete game on just 91 pitches by dilly-dallying around. As one would expect, Santana was very aggressive on the first pitch. Image above via Brooks Baseball The pitching performance was great to see, but i...5688Sat, 10 Jun 2017 06:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-thread-twins-giants-june-9915pm-ct-r5686/1. San Francisco – 870,000 people are crammed into 7 city blocks and this makes San Francisco the 2nd most dense city in the United States… after New York City. The reason for this denseness, San Francisco is built on a peninsula which reduces the opportunity to sprawl outward from the city in all...5686Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:07:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-2-seattle-1-pitching-defense-and-a-castro-blast-r5685/Twins 2, Seattle 1 Box Score Win Expectancy (via Fangraphs) Gibson kept it simple, essentially ditching everything but his two-seamer and curveball. That’s especially of note since the curve is usually Gibby’s least-used pitch (13.3 percent). Image above via Baseball Savant Image above via Bro...5685Fri, 09 Jun 2017 11:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-daily-mlb-draft-review-r5683/Twins Daily Draft Preview: Jeremy, the Twins Daily Draft Guru, kicked off the coverage by looking at the Twins's draft pool, which players were under consideration for the top pick, and some potential draft strategies. There are lots of factors impacting an organization as the draft gets closer. D...5683Fri, 09 Jun 2017 10:28:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/launching-into-a-new-statistical-era-r5676/Thanks to MLB's Statcast, statistics like launch angle and exit velocity are starting to become part of the baseball lexicon. How do the Twins stack up in this new statistical era? Launch Angle The Washington Post took a deep look into the launch angle revolution happening across baseball. As part...5676Thu, 08 Jun 2017 11:40:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/seattle-6-twins-5-kintzler-can%E2%80%99t-close-it-out-zunino-blasts-walk-off-hr-r5681/Seattle 6, Twins 5 Box Score Win Expectancy (via Fangraphs) Top 5 Plays (via Baseball-Reference) Kintzler opened the ninth by quickly getting two groundouts on seven total pitches. Ben Gamel hit a two-out single into center field on a 2-0 count to extend the game. Kintzler then fell behind Zuni...5681Thu, 08 Jun 2017 11:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/max-kepler39s-growth-follows-a-marlin39s-path-r5677/I began making this comparison back in March of 2016, suggesting that Kepler could be a better version of the Marlins outfielder, or if nothing else, a very similar player. Now through 51 games in 2017, we're starting to see that come to fruition. Yelich was a top 25 prospect in all of baseball pr...5677Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:38:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-claim-rhp-chris-heston-add-him-to-25-man-roster-r5678/5678Wed, 07 Jun 2017 23:13:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/seattle-12-twins-3-santiago-still-struggling-dozier-still-slugging-r5674/Seattle 12, Twins 3 Box Score Win Expectancy (via Fangraphs) Top 5 Plays (via Baseball-Reference) Santiago did not look right from the get-go. Below is a visual on how he fared against the first batter of the game (via Yahoo), the location is obviously an issue, but note the velocity, as well....5674Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:15:00 +0000