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Twins Trade Gomez, Acquire Hardy, Retain Cuddyer
The offseason has gotten off to a fast start for the Twins – much faster than I could have expected. On Friday, the Twins sent the centerpiece of the Johan Santana trade, enigmatic speedster Carlos Gomez, to Milwaukee in exchange for J.J. Hardy. On Saturday, the Twins exercised...
Breaking News: Gomez traded to Milwaukee for JJ Hardy
Joe Christensen of the Star Tribune is reporting that the Twins have traded Carlos Gomez to the Brewers for shortstop JJ Hardy. Interesting move by Smith. He continues a promising trend in a GM: When he feels that a move or a plan hasn’t panned out, he does not stubbornly stick to [...]
Breaking News: Sanchez signs with Giants
Comcast Sports Network is reporting that Freddy Sanchez has signed a 2 year deal with the Giants. While perhaps not the most desirable option for the Twins to pursue at second base, he was one of the best second basemen available on the free agent market. His signing dries up the second base [...]
Offseason Outlook: Third Base
Starting today, I’m going to consider what options the Twins have in this offseason. In some ways, this feels like a futile exercise, given that four talented, prolific bloggers have united at Twinscentric.com to provide a comprehensive overview of the offseason. Written by John...
Trades: The Twins’ Most Beneficial Asset
This past season, it felt like so much changed for the Twins. Joe Mauer finally developed a power stroke and played beyond our most optimistic expectations. Denard Span solidified himself in the leadoff spot, showing that he may in fact be the best leadoff hitter the Twins have...
Postseason Thoughts (Generally and Specifically)
Legend, or Myth? Seemingly every October, baseball fans all over America are reminded of Derek Jeter’s outstanding playoff performances and are privileged to witness further such performances. Jeter is, in short, Mr. October, “the face of playoff baseball”. Sort of. Thankfully...
The End, and Vacation
I’m not going to delve into the details of Sunday’s latest frustrating loss to the Yankees. Same old story – Twins couldn’t hold a lead, couldn’t get a big hit, pitched great against a great offense but shot themselves in the foot just enough to make victory...
Game 2: Yankees 4, Twins 3 (11)
The Twins fell again in New York on Friday night, 4-3, thanks to an incredible inability to take advantage of opportunities. The Twins as a team left 17 runners on base, and witnessed Joe Nathan completely implode by surrendering a game-tying home run to Alex Rodriguez and throwing...
Yankees 7, Twins 2: Wrap
Well, that didn’t last long. Not one full day removed from winning one of the best games in franchise history, and probably the best game most fans in attendance will ever witness in person, the Twins reminded us of their biggest weakness over the years: an inability to win on...
That. Was. Epic.
There’s no way to analyze this game. It just was epic. All I can say is that last year, after attending the Twins-White Sox game last year where the Twins rallied from 5 runs down to tie on Denard Span’s triple, and win on Alexi Casilla’s single, I thought to myself...
Never. Say. Die.
Aren’t we all glad to be wrong? Three weeks ago, just about every last baseball fan wrote the Twins off. The team had yet to sustain a good run of baseball, they were missing 60% of their rotation, and their most powerful hitter went on the shelf with a fractured back. Before...
Metrodome Memories: MPR
Quick note here. Minnesota Public Radio is collecting Metrodome Memories from Twins fans. Below is the information directly from MPR. Being an avid listener of 89.3 The Current and a big fan of the work they do in general, I would encourage people to participate in this. If you’...
Quick side note
I meant to put this in this morning’s post but forgot. Andrew Kneeland, the former writer for this blog, is now writing for Twins Target at www.twinstarget.com. If you’ve never read his stuff before, I’d still recommend checking out his blog; he provides very comprehensive...
September Baseball (and a plug for Zack Greinke)
Unfortunately, the Twins weren’t able to take advantage of a number of opportunities to beat baseball’s best pitcher, Mr. Zack Greinke yesterday and take the sweep that I thought they would need. Fortunately, the Tigers continued to play mediocre baseball and barely put...
SWEEEEEP! Exceedingly long-winded thoughts in light of a satisfying stretch of baseball
SWEEP!
For the second time in two years, the Twins have faced the Chicago White Sox in a crucial three-game September series and swept. While this year’s series lacked the dramatics of last year, the result was the same, and this year’s sweep may well be more impressive. The...
Domination
Even if the Twins ultimately fail to catch the Tigers, games like this will never get old. Nice professional, methodical smackdown for our boys last night.
Sounds like it was nothing serious with Span. Hopefully he recovers quickly.
Weekly Wrap, 9/19/09: Thoughts on Brian Duensing
The Twins wrapped up a highly successful week with an intense, satisfying 3-0 win over the Detroit Tigers last night. After losing three straight (one against Toronto, two against Oakland) the Twins rallied from a 3-0, eighth inning deficit against Cleveland on Monday to kick off...
Justin Morneau and The Ewing Theory
(Note: At the very least, this post is intended to be taken lightly, as a source of amusement. At most, it’s meant to be taken as a ray of hope for Twins fans. I hope you enjoy.)
This week, Twins fans received tragic news. Justin Morneau, out for the season with a back fracture...
Quick (frustrated) Thoughts: A’s at Twins, 9/11/09
Having ripped on Delmon Young the other night, I’ve been forced to eat a bit of crow the last few days as he’s actually hit a few line drives and an extra-base hit or two. Still, I stand by my original post and still believe that Carlos Gomez is a far superior option to Young [...]
Weekly Wrap
The Twins just finished up a frustrating series in Toronto. Going into this series, the Twins hadn’t had any success in Toronto recently and hadn’t ever mustered a win against Roy Halladay. After yet another disappointing/maddening series against the Indians and a Tigers sweep...
The Case for Carlos Gomez…on Offense
At the start of the season, the Minnesota Twins were said to have more outfielders than spots available. “We have outfielders that can start for most teams,” opined Denard Span, back in spring training. Gardenhire also boasted of his embarrassment of outfield riches, claiming...
New Blogger needed at TwinsFix
Andrew Kneeland has decided he will no longer be blogging here at TwinsFix as a part of SportsBlogNet.
Please email joe@sportsblognet.com if you would be interested in writing for this blog. There is also a 50/50 revenue share, and we can discuss more how that works if someone is...
BREAKING NEWS: Twins Awarded Harden Claim
Whew, I’m almost BREAKING NEWS’d out.
According to ESPNChicago, the Twins were the team that was awarded the Rich Harden claim, and not a National League team as I had thought. Harden has been a great pitcher for the second half of the season this year, posting a 1.80 ERA...
BREAKING NEWS: Twins Acquire Jon Rauch
The tallest player in the major-leagues is now a member of the Minnesota Twins, according to an MLB press release. The 6′11” Rauch is a former third-round pick by the Chicago White Sox, but was traded to the Expos back in 2004. He became a Diamondback in mid-2008.
Rauch...
BREAKING NEWS: Twins Acquire Ron Mahay
Buster Olney of EPSN is reporting that the Twins have agree to terms with the Royals regarding veteran lefty reliever Ron Mahay. Mahay sports a bloated 4.79 ERA this season, but becomes a free agent when the season is over five weeks from now. The Twins gave up someone for Mahay, but...
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