https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/933/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/before-they-were-stars-r4326/Unfortunately, the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Diamond Mind scouting report collection does not have any reports on Hunter’s amateur days archived but it does have several reports on Hawkins and Cuddyer. Hawkins’ two reports – both from 1995 and both from Chicago White Sox scouts – paints the picture...4326Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:48:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-holes-still-must-be-filled-r4323/CATCHER Starter: Kurt Suzuki Backup: John Ryan Murphy Depth: John Hicks, Stuart Turner, Mitch Garver It looks like this is the group they'll head into the season with. This might not be the emphatic upgrade fans were hoping for after the catcher position emerged as a major problem spot in 2015, bu...4323Mon, 14 Dec 2015 03:59:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/gleeman-amp-the-geek-ep-227-much-ado-about-nothing-r4322/http://traffic.libsyn.com/gleemangeek/Ep_227_Much_Ado_About_Nothing.mp34322Mon, 14 Dec 2015 03:47:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/nearing-the-end-of-an-era-r4321/LaTroy Hawkins announced during the season that 2015 would his last. He certainly had his ups and (a lot of) downs in his time with the Twins. He had just figured things out in 2002 and 2003, becoming one of the top set-up men in baseball. Who would have known that he would play for another dozen...4321Sat, 12 Dec 2015 04:08:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/the-next-massive-twins-contract-r4320/Let's address the elephant in the room first. Yes, the Twins paid Joe Mauer $184 million for eight years of his talents. Yes, they were absolutely right in doing so. No, Mauer is not the same player he was, and unfortunately, the value was sapped significantly when Mauer was forced to move from be...4320Sat, 12 Dec 2015 03:12:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/hicks-murphy-trade-looking-worse-by-the-minute-r4319/There was no reason the team had to deal away a player who would have been of value to the 2016 roster in order to solve the catching problem. True, Matt Wieters, the expected top prize of this offseason's catching group, was surprisingly off the market after accepting the Orioles' qualifying offe...4319Fri, 11 Dec 2015 09:23:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/ryan-twins-left-out-in-the-cold-at-winter-meetings-r4318/The reaction to this uneventful week in Nashville, from many longtime Twins fans, has been a shrug of the shoulders. "What did you expect?" That is fair, to an extent, but the circumstances and stakes were significantly different this time around than in previous years. The Twins headed to Nashvil...4318Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:36:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-cut-miguel-sano%E2%80%99s-winter-season-short-r4317/Sano was not in the lineup for the Estrella Orientales on Tuesday and was absent again on Wednesday. When prompted, Sano told reporters that he received the news from the organization on Tuesday that they would like him to no longer participate in the league. The message was that the team wanted S...4317Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:07:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/how-brett-lawrie39s-trade-altered-my-thinking-r4316/It was another trade that went through at baseball’s Winter Meetings. Some transactions are big. Others, not so much. But when I saw that the Oakland A’s had traded third baseman Brett Lawrie to the White Sox in exchange for RHP JB Wendelken and LH Zach Erwin, I thought it was a bit noteworthy. I...4316Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:51:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-likely-won39t-add-could-lose-players-in-rule-5-draft-r4315/The Twins have the 17th pick in the Rule 5 draft based on their finish in the standings during the 2015 season. It’s really impossible to know which players will have already been taken, and Terry Ryan has said that most likely they would not take anyone. The Twins have been pretty clear that they...4315Thu, 10 Dec 2015 01:42:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/defensive-woes-follow-danny-santana-to-the-dominican-r4314/The Monte Plata product has had a particularly lousy week with the glove. Tuesday evening, Santana committed his fifth error in as many contests. All five of those errors have come at second base, a position he's only seen limited time at in the minors, but the poor glove work serves as further ev...4314Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:41:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/relief-role-playing-r4312/This isn’t 2011 through 2014 anymore. In 2015, the Twins won 83 games and were not eliminated until their 161st game. It’s about winning now while at the same time doing what’s best for the players, short-term and long-term. Let’s discuss a couple of the young pitchers and where they should fit in...4312Tue, 08 Dec 2015 03:27:00 +0000