https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/page/980/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/berrios-buxton-among-first-round-of-cuts-r3442/40-Man Roster These players get a couple of days to report to minor league camp. Max Kepler - 1B, OF Non-Roster Invites These players are expected to head across the parking lot. In fact, several of them went right to work after learning the news, fitting into the minor league drills. Jose Ber...3442Sun, 15 Mar 2015 16:13:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/alex-muren-master-of-the-groundball-attack-r3441/Alex Muren was the Twins 12th round draft pick in 2012 out of Cal State-Northridge. Despite a 5-8 record and a 5.30 ERA, and just 47 strikeouts in 91.2 innings for the Matadors, the Twins obviously saw something that they liked. After signing, he was assigned to the GCL Twins where he worked out o...3441Sun, 15 Mar 2015 02:29:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/a-day-at-twins-minor-league-camp-r3440/There are 55 rooms in the new dormitory at the Twins complex, with two players in each room. Most of the younger players stay there. Some of the more veteran players or some of the guys who think they’ll play for the Miracle this season will find a place to live off-site. At the dorms, they are ab...3440Sat, 14 Mar 2015 11:11:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/one-stat-to-watch-brian-dozier39s-batting-average-r3438/If one believes that the minor league track record is useful in determining future success, most believe that Dozier can increase his batting average beyond the .240s that he’s hit the last two seasons. Obviously rookie league stats mean little, but Dozier hit .349 in 58 games there. He began his...3438Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:40:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/game-day-notes-after-a-win-r3437/Before the game, I chatted with a couple of players. This afternoon, I posted an article on the very interesting story of Tyler Grimes. JR GRAHAM I also spent some time chatting with Rule 5 pick JR Graham. He says he’s really enjoyed his spring with the Twins, but he pointed out that it is quite a...3437Fri, 13 Mar 2015 04:39:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-bite-sized-history-gene-mauch-rod-carew-and-the-lumber-company-r3436/The Twins remained marginally competitive over the next decade or so, but injuries and age chipped away enough to lower them from elite to mediocre. Killebrew turned 35 in 1971 and would never again hit even 30 home runs in a season. Oliva hurt his knee on a shoestring catch in June 1971 and would...3436Fri, 13 Mar 2015 04:23:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/corey-koskie-comments-on-2015-twins-r3434/It all began in 1994, when Koskie found himself selected in the 26th round of the amateur draft, despite being projected to go earlier. He recalled the process: “Based on some pre-draft reports and a couple of other things, I thought I would end up going as a higher-round pick. But I got a phone c...3434Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:10:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/tyler-grimes-is-happy-with-his-decision-r3435/In December, Grimes got a phone call from Twins General Manager Terry Ryan. Ryan talked to Grimes and invited him to big league spring training as a non-roster player. The response, according to Ryan, “caught me off guard, I can tell you that.” Grimes said he told Ryan, “Thanks Terry, but it’s tim...3435Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:05:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-fall-to-tampa-three-stars-r3433/You could possibly argue the order in which those three are mentioned, but nonetheless, each had a good spring training game and has something to build upon. Let’s start where it all starts for a baseball team, starting pitching. Left-hander Tommy Milone made his second spring training start of th...3433Thu, 12 Mar 2015 01:05:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/wednesday-twins-notes-meyer-kepler-bernier-beresford-sano-vargas-r3432/MAX KEPLER While fans were talking about Byron Buxton and Eddie Rosario during the Arizona Fall League, Max Kepler had arguably the most productive statistical showing among the Twins prospects. He said that he felt good throughout that seven-week season, but that the experience was terrific. “We...3432Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:46:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-if-the-twins-drafted-mark-prior-r3428/The argument I will advance is that the Twins would have been better off passing on Mauer to draft Mark Prior first overall in the 2001 amateur draft. This argument is built upon two main ideas: First, that winning the World Series should be the ultimate goal for a major league franchise and secon...3428Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:32:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/aaron-hicks-is-striding-in-the-right-direction-r3431/With right-handed pitchers accounting for 70 to 75 percentage of all plate appearances each year, it was clear that in order to have success at the major league level Hicks was going to have to figure out a way to get hits off of them. The decision to stop hitting left-handed -- even for a brief s...3431Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:11:00 +0000