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Gardenhire needs Lessons

I’m revising my original post before another dozen Twins’ fans have heart attacks, but I’m not wavering from my original position:  Ron Gardenhire is a terrible strategist who's propped up by the immense talent provided to him by best farm system in MLB.  Twins junkies who have nothing better to do with their lives than watch every Twins game (alo... Read More

 
The Flawed All-Star Selection Process, Revisited

Last Sunday, I wrote about the flawed All-Star selection process. Before getting into today’s topic, I want to respond to a few comments from last week. First, I u... Read More

 
 
Twins Way Not Effective

How do you take a hulking 6 foot 6, 230 pound baseball player and turn him into a slap hitter?  Put him on the Minnesota Twins and make him do things the 'Twins Way'.  Several years ago when David Ortiz first joined the Red Sox he attempted to hit a ground ball... Read More

 
Twin Killing

With a 5pm ET deadline looming, Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports is reporting that the Mets are inching closer to a record deal with SP Johan Santana. Certainly, there is an outside chance that the Mets could botch this deal and fail to sign Santan... Read More

 
Johdalay-Johdalay-Johdalay-Johan

And just like that it appears the Red Sox brass is at it again. A full sunrise and sunset after GM Theo Epstein predicts a quiet off season, and all of the sudden ... Read More

 
Santana Next To Leave?

Now that Torii Hunter is California dreaming, the 2 time Cy Young award winner will surely be the next to go. It was reported by the Star Tribune today that the Twins made Santana a 5 year deal worth $93 milli... Read More

 
My Blueprint for the Twins

It’s that time of year folks. The air is crisp. The leaves are nearly all gone. The lights at your local baseball venue have long... Read More

 
Sunday Night Strikeouts - News And Notes From Around The League

The Future Of The Catching Joe Mauer, The White Sox Selling Low After Buying High, and Melvin Mora Potentially On The Move Moving Mauer Recently, I read in a article by Jim Souhan advocating a move of Joe Mauer to third base. I’m not going to post the article, it’s available there if you want to find it, but the gist of ... Read More

 
Can't T-win 'em all

One of the best things about baseball is that if you happen to have a game where you lose 20-2, it's only one game out of 162.  The problem being if you're the one who wins a game like that, you can't re-distribute your r... Read More

 
Fantasy Rankings, Catcher

We're back with another shot at the fantasy positional rankings, starting up again with catchers. I looked at my past leagues to find that it takes about 18 runs, 7 home runs, 18 runs batted in, 13... Read More

 
Team Previews - The Minnesota Twins, Plus An Orioles Update

Wow, I go off for training and the Baseball World goes bananas.  Well, I'll update the Kris Benson situation later, but for right now, let's check out the nex... Read More

 
Fantasy Rankings: Catchers

Before delving into the rankings, I'd like to let you know the format I am using. Although I am listing them in a ranking format, I am going to stress that I am not so worried about... Read More

 
The MVP: 2 Good Choices

This year was a tight race for the MVP awards in Major League Baseball.  Tight because we have identified the Most Valuable Player award not by the player who produce... Read More

 
Take Off Eh! Morneausy Wins the MVP

Minnesota Twins 1B Justin Ernest George Morneau has won the 2006 AL MVP Award. YEs the guy who I believe is not even the most valuable on his own team won the award for the whole... Read More

 
more obscure mlb awards: postseason, round 1

biggest disappointment by an overrated team in the first round of the playoffs.this one has to go to the yankees. just about everyone knew their pitching wasnt good enough to wi... Read More

 
Welcome to Twins Town

Do we even need to review the Vikings or Gophers losses? If you read this site Friday, you'd have known it was going to happen. The Gophs season is essentially over, and if the Vikings don't find a way to get some offensive tou... Read More

 
Tale of Two Cities: The 2006 Minnesota Twins AL Central Champions.

Woke up at noon on a Sunday October 1st; pretty late but it's the day most of us use for a good sleep; after all it was a long week, but full of memories and events that will never be forgotten by Twins fans. Got ready to watch the game which many thought would be meaningless, but with the positiv... Read More

 
MVP/Cy Young - Final Visit

Every couple of weeks the scenario seemed to change and every couple of weeks we would all write down our view on who should take which award.  Now that today is the final day (maybe) of the baseball season, we can clearly define who the... Read More

 
New MVP discussion

As we wind down the 2006 baseball season its crunch time for each contending team as well as the MVP of each team to showcase themselves to being perhaps the Most Valuable Player in all of baseball. In the National League, we seem to have a 3 dog race with Albert Pujols, Carlos Beltran and the ... Read More

 
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