https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/903/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-thread-twins-v-athletics-74-110pm-ct-r4874/1. Cleaning Day – 4th of July 2015… Last year I was living in Michigan by myself and my wife and family were back in North Dakota. We wanted to do something together but the distance made that difficult so my wife came up with the idea of making it a cleaning day for both of us and it would be lik...4874Mon, 04 Jul 2016 14:49:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-was-your-favorite-kevin-jepsen-moment-r4872/Jepsen played a vital bullpen role for the Twins in 2015 after being acquired at the trade deadline. After closer Glen Perkins struggled in the second-half of the season, Jepsen successfully converted 10 saves in 11 opportunities while posting a minuscule 1.61 ERA and limiting opponents to a .176...4872Sun, 03 Jul 2016 16:20:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/j2-come-here-international-free-agents-r4869/11:00am update - Doogie tweeted out that the agreement with Valdez was for $495,000. DPL Baseball tweeted out that the Twins have signed Jesus Felix, who is listed as a shortstop, for $260,000. They later also tweeted out that the club has signed Stamy Gabriel, also currently listed at shortstop,...4869Sat, 02 Jul 2016 13:40:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-thread-twins-v-rangers-71-710pm-ct-r4867/1. Dolly the Sheep – On July 5th in the year 1996, Scottish scientists took a cell from a mammary gland and proved that they could indeed take that single cell and use it to create the most famous sheep in the whole world… Dolly. Terry Ryan was a young General Manager at the time but was fascinate...4867Fri, 01 Jul 2016 13:38:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/long-term-woes-r4865/Obviously, the young players who are being relied upon as the lifeblood of a return to contention have largely scuffled. Byron Buxton looks nowhere near taking competent major-league at-bats. Tyler Duffey has a 5.59 ERA. Eddie Rosario, John Ryan Murphy, Jose Berrios and JT Chargois are in Triple-A...4865Fri, 01 Jul 2016 04:03:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/phil-hughes-surgery-is-no-guaranteed-fix-r4864/Thoracic outlet syndrome syndrome isn’t an injury to bones or muscles. It’s an injury to nerves, in which they become compressed which can cause pain and a lack of velocity. The treatment is to remove that which is compressing the nerves, which is presumably why Phil Hughes' surgery involves losin...4864Thu, 30 Jun 2016 03:32:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/episode-260-thoracic-mailbag-r4863/http://traffic.libsyn.com/gleemangeek/Thoracic_Mailbag.mp34863Thu, 30 Jun 2016 03:18:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/who-should-be-the-american-league-all-star-starters-r4861/Catcher Leading: Salvador Perez, Royals My Pick: Salvador Perez, Royals Catching is in a rough spot in the American League especially with Joe Mauer no longer being an option behind the plate. Salvador Perez, the reigning World Series MVP, leads the league in fWAR during the last 365 days. Blake S...4861Thu, 30 Jun 2016 02:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/mauer-outage-r4859/Many fans had understandably lost faith during two straight utterly mediocre seasons following the former MVP's move to first base. Maybe this simply was what he was, and what we'd have to live with it until his expensive contract wrapped up in 2018. This April represented a return to form. Mauer...4859Wed, 29 Jun 2016 02:49:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gamethread-twins-white-sox-628-710pm-ct-r4858/1. Al Capone – This famous bad guy ruled Chicago. Instead of buying his wife a gift on Valentine’s Day… he was just too busy for that in 1929 as he was busy planning and executing a massacre. When his wife found out exactly why he was too busy… she gave it some thought and decided it was best to j...4858Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:27:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-would-happen-if-mlb-held-an-expansion-draft-r4856/There were some exceptions, players that could not be selected. Players drafted in the previous two drafts could not be selected. Neither could players signed the previous year when they were under 18. Players who were free agents were not eligible for the expansion draft, which makes sense sinc...4856Tue, 28 Jun 2016 02:41:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/setting-up-for-the-second-half-r4853/1) Install Miguel Sano at third base. We've discussed this quite a bit around here, so I won't dwell. It is becoming increasingly clear that Sano should be in the team's plans as a third baseman and Trevor Plouffe – who is enduring a rough campaign – should not. Make the necessary moves to open up...4853Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:28:00 +0000