https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/page/331/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/independent-thinking-r788/The Twins organization is filled with players from all over the globe. They scout the entire country, Canada and Puerto Rico for the draft. They’ve done a nice job signing international players in recent years. The Twins do a great job in Australia. They have players from Europe and talent from Tai...788Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:16:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/tuesday-minor-league-scoreboard-r785/Brett Andersen made his first start in just over a year since he had Tommy John surgery, and the lefty was back in fine form. He gave up just one run on four hits and no walks in seven innings. Sean Doolittle pitched a perfect eighth. Then former Twins reliever Grant Balfour recorded his 12th save w...785Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:36:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/monday-in-the-minors-r780/The Twins got big offense from their nine through four hitters and came away with a nice 7-1 win over the Oakland A’s, one of baseball’s hottest teams. Of course, the biggest story was the performance of Brian Duensing. The lefty gave up two runs (1 earned) in six innings. He gave up five hits, walk...780Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:10:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/sunday-minor-league-game-notes-r776/The Twins fell to 50-70 on the season after a weekend sweep at the hands of the Seattle Mariners. On Sunday, Sam Deduno gave the Twins another Quality Start despite doing his best Deduno impersonation. The effectively wild righty gave up just two runs despite allowing five hits and walking six batte...776Mon, 20 Aug 2012 02:46:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/saturday-in-the-minor-league-parks-r774/The new guys continued to impress in their second games with the Twins, and Scott Diamond put in another quality start, but on this night, there wasn’t enough offense and the team lost in walk-off fashion in the ninth. Scott Diamond started and gave up two runs on nine hits over 6.2 innings to keep...774Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:11:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/friday-night-minor-league-lights-r773/The Twins fell behind the Mariners early thanks to some more bad pitching by Nick Blackburn. John Jaso hit a two-run homer in the first inning, and Miguel Olivo hit a hanging curveball. The Twins’ bats didn’t do much early either. After Felix Hernandez’s perfect game on Thursday, Mariners starter Hi...773Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:08:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/wednesdays-twins-minor-league-daily-r768/It feels like almost every Wednesday night when I write this, the Twins have lost, or are in the process of losing. I didn't watch or follow today's game. It looked from the highlights like Max Scherzer had a pretty good day. Oh well. Let's take a look at tonight's minor league action. ROCHESTER 6,...768Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:13:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/the-development-of-chris-parmelee-r767/Despite being the Twins 1st round pick in the 2006 draft out of his school, it took until September of 2011 for his to become a household name among many Twins fans. After five seasons in the minor leagues, Parmelee was promoted directly from Double-A New Britain when the Rock Cats season ended just...767Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:28:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/minor-league-odyssey-%E2%80%93-day-sixteen-%E2%80%93-rochester-game-ten-r766/Note: This is the last in a series of blog entries detailing my game experiences on a road trip to see all the Twins minor league affiliates in their home parks. For those interested, links to previous entries are listed at the end in chronological order. After a quiet day visiting one of the local...766Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:46:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/tuesdays-trip-through-the-minors-r762/Brian Duensing put the Twins in an early hole by giving up two runs in each of the first two innings but the Twins were able to make a game of it versus the Tigers. A big bottom of the third inning helped to even the score with Josh Willingham providing most of the damage with a 3-run home run, his...762Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:18:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/minnesota-twins-top-20-prospects-in-review-r761/In my fourth annual Minnesota Twins Prospect Handbook, which became available in January, I posted my Top 30 Twins Prospect list as well as my annual rankings back five or six years. I enjoy looking at those lists for a couple of reasons. First, it is humbling. No one will likely ever produce a top...761Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:39:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/twins-minor-league/monday-in-the-minors-r759/The beauty of baseball is many-fold. On any given night. You just never know. Teams need stars to play well over the course of a season to be successful. But on any given night, anyone can step up when you least expect it and help you to a win. On Monday night, Samuel Deduno was wild as ever, but he...759Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:11:00 +0000