https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/884/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/dead-of-winter-r5235/The biggest Twins-related news to emerge recently has involved organizational housekeeping. Last week James Rowson was announced as the team's new hitting coach, and this week Minnesota shook up the scouting department with a pair of promotions. Outwardly, the front office has not been especially...5235Wed, 07 Dec 2016 05:13:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/official-winter-meetings-tuesday-thread-r5234/The Winter Meetings are often a place where there is a lot of talking, but there aren't necessarily a lot of transactions. That was the case Monday, but a lot of the talk centered around the American League Central. Here's the rundown from Monday as we look forward to Tuesday at the Winter Meeting...5234Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:48:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/not-so-premium-velocity-r5233/On Sunday night, Parker and I subbed for Aaron on the Gleeman and the Geek podcast. Among the topics discussed was the club's decision to non-tender 22-year-old right-hander Yorman Landa, thus opening a spot on the 40-man roster in advance of this week's Rule 5 draft. Landa has a power arm that ha...5233Tue, 06 Dec 2016 04:54:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/official-winter-meetings-monday-thread-r5232/The best thing about the Winter Meetings is all the rumors. The worst thing about the Winter Meetings is all the rumors. We're going to hear a lot of conversation, a lot of rumors. Again, GMs will be talking to GMs. GMs will be talking to Agents. GMs and other baseball executives will have media s...5232Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:02:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/a-road-well-traveled-rebuilding-the-twins-r5231/The Situation The situations are eerily similar. The year before, the 1984 Twins had a very successful year, raising hopes. In fact, they competed for a postseason spot right until they were swept in their last series of the year. ***This is an excerpt of one of several features from the Twins D...5231Mon, 05 Dec 2016 08:05:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-amp-the-geek-ep-287-unpacking-dozier-rumors-r5230/http://traffic.libsyn.com/gleemangeek/Ep_287_Unpacking_Dozier_Rumors.mp35230Mon, 05 Dec 2016 08:01:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/official-winter-meetings-sunday-thread-r5228/Right away this morning, we had the following tweet from USA Today's Bob Nightengale: Now as you know, the Dodgers are in major debt from MLB, but that may actually make Dozier make more sense. As Nightengale followed up: So, let the rumors begin... Julio Urias? We can wish. Jose Deleon?...5228Sun, 04 Dec 2016 15:38:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/catching-up-in-a-stream-of-consciousness-r5227/In the last couple of weeks, Derek Falvey and Thad Levine have been busy and things are about to get even busier. As we discussed yesterday, the Twins have until Friday night to offer arbitration to five players (Hector Santiago, Kyle Gibson, Brandon Kintzler, Ryan Pressly, and Eduardo Escobar). B...5227Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:07:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/as-the-defense-goes-so-goes-the-twins-r5225/Over the past 15 seasons, the Twins have ranked in the top half in team defense seven times, according to Fangraphs. They had a winning record in six of those seasons (every year but '07 when they were 79-83) and made the playoffs five times. In the eight years they've fielded a below-average defe...5225Fri, 02 Dec 2016 01:46:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/arbitration-decisions-looming-r5224/Before then, the Twins have one more decision to make. On Friday night (December 2), teams need to determine whether or not to offer their arbitration-eligible players a contract for 2017. The Twins have to make that decision on five more players and the decisions aren’t necessarily as easy as we...5224Thu, 01 Dec 2016 04:45:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/above-and-beyond-creatively-improving-run-prevention-r5223/***This is an excerpt of one of several features from the Twins Daily Offseason Handbook. To read this and more, be sure to download your FREE Twins Daily Offseason Handbook now.*** Boston's Pitching Guru At the end of the 2015 season, the Boston Red Sox added a new position for former major...5223Thu, 01 Dec 2016 04:35:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-new-front-office-off-to-strong-start-r5222/It has been evident that Castro was the team's top priority from the get-go. While serving as interim GM late in the summer, Rob Antony pointed to finding a starting catcher as Minnesota's primary offseason imperative, and as soon as free agency got underway the Twins were repeatedly tied to the f...5222Wed, 30 Nov 2016 02:17:00 +0000