https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/page/325/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/twins-minor-league-report-56-that-dirty-baxendale-r1454/We'll lead tonight's report off with some injury news. Kernels RP Tyler Jones was placed on the D.L. with a strained flexor tendon. (If you're curious to know exactly what that means, I looked it up and, knowing I'm not a doctor, am more confused than I was before.) Taking Jones's place in the bul...1454Tue, 07 May 2013 03:11:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/draft-preview-ampquotpersonal-cheeseballsampquot-hitters-r1453/At some point, while researching for a previous draft, I came across a Baseball America podcast where they were discussing their “personal cheeseballs”. At first I was a little confused, but quickly came to realize that these “cheeseballs” were their favorites. In fact, to qualify to be a “persona...1453Tue, 07 May 2013 00:49:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/twins-minor-league-report-55-berrios-baffles-bats-r1447/All the Minnesota Twins’ affiliates played afternoon games on Sunday, as did the big league club. As we mentioned yesterday the Twins had some interesting pitchers taking the mound today and they had mixed results. Sam Deduno and Cole De Vries both made their first rehab starts of the year. Top Twin...1447Mon, 06 May 2013 00:04:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/twins-minor-league-report-54-red-wings-power-r1446/It was quite the power display for the Rochester Red Wings, something the Twins AAA-affiliate needed badly. Clete Thomas and Chris Colabello continue to make their case for big league jobs. Miguel Sano and Byron Buxton continue to make their cases for being the #1 prospect in baseball going into the...1446Sun, 05 May 2013 03:59:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/twins-minor-league-relief-pitcher-of-the-month-april-r1444/After going through the top performing Hitters and Starting Pitchers from April, it's now time to check out which relief pitchers performed best in April. The Twins announced their choices of Byron Buxton and DJ Baxendale as their Hitter and Pitcher of the Month, respectively.[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] As...1444Sat, 04 May 2013 19:01:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/twins-minor-league-reports-may-3-vargas-vaults-miracle-r1443/Friday was another good day for the two Minnesota Twins Class A affiliates while the Red Wings and Rock Cats fell short. In some pretty exciting Twins Daily news, our frequent contributor AJ Pettersen tweeted the following after tonight’s Miracle game, “I'm headed to Portland, Maine tomorrow to join...1443Sat, 04 May 2013 03:37:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/twins-minor-league-starting-pitcher-of-the-month-april-r1439/Yesterday we looked at the top hitters in the Twins system in May and today we’ll be taking a look at the top pitching performances of April. It will be separated into two blog postings, one for the relievers and this one for the starting pitchers. [PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] While the hitting leaders were...1439Fri, 03 May 2013 06:28:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/twins-minor-league-report-52-michael-walks-off-r1438/If you missed Cody's minor league report from yesterday, you can read it here. Seth also made his choice for Twins minor league Hitter of the Month. Andrew wrote up about Alex Meyer's last start. There is a lot of draft info that cmb0252 put together into one thread. And after yesterday's minor sh...1438Fri, 03 May 2013 03:26:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/twins-minor-league-hitter-of-the-month-april-r1437/It hardly seems like it has been a month; maybe it was the cold weather, some postponements and several doubleheaders. But just because the weather was cold doesn't mean that there weren’t some very hot bats in the Twins farm system. The Twins had the top two teams in the minor leagues in the month...1437Thu, 02 May 2013 06:33:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/alex-meyers-ampquotroughampquot-start-r1436/[TABLE=class: tr-caption-container, align: center] http://www.milb.com/assets/images/7/3/4/45176734/cuts/meyer480_yw1gwbv3_yjk0mgqz.jpg [TD=class: tr-caption]Alex Meyer, probably throwing a really, really hard fastball. Courtesy of Kevin Pataky at MiLB.[/TD] [/TABLE] For a Twins fan, I had perha...1436Thu, 02 May 2013 03:25:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/twins-minor-league-report-51-darnell-dominates-r1435/Joe Mauer sat out his first Twins game of the season on Wednesday. But even with Mauer out of the line-up, the Twins were able to come away with a win and avoid being swept by the Detroit Tigers. Scott Diamond pitched six strong innings, giving up two earned runs and four hits for his second win of...1435Thu, 02 May 2013 02:35:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/kernels-9-game-win-streak-has-had-some-drama-r1433/The Cedar Rapids Kernels have ripped through nine straight wins as they head in to a two week long road trip, but the streak hasn't come without a little drama. Take this past Saturday, for one instance. Most of you have probably already read or heard about the strange finish to that night's 8-7 Ke...1433Wed, 01 May 2013 12:57:00 +0000