Starter Kenta Maeda earned his first win of the season, Jorge Polanco delivered a key hit and the Twins edged the Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Wednesday to take two of three games from the Motor City-based club. The Twins have won four of their first six games of the season. The Twins fell behind early,... Continue Reading »

Twins outfielder, Max Kepler, singled, doubled and tripled in Game 1 of the regular season on Thursday, reminding Twins fans everywhere (OK, me) that spring training results are pretty much meaningless. Kepler hit all of .070 during spring training, but it sure didn’t seem to matter on Thursday. Also bucking the trend was, Byron Buxton,... Continue Reading »

The ball isn’t flying into the outfield stands at a rate we’ve come to expect from the Twins, but it certainly is sailing well off the mound based on the low number of earned runs starters have allowed this spring. And it continued Friday after Michael Pineda gave up only one earned run over two-plus... Continue Reading »

In games that Twins pitchers Jose Berrios, Kenta Maeda, Michael Pineda, Matt Shoemaker, Devin Smeltzer and Lewis Thorpe have started so far this spring — and this is likely to be the starting rotation, give or take Smeltzer, for the regular season — they have allowed a grand total of one earned run. That came... Continue Reading »

Twins pitcher, Jose Berrios, made his spring debut on Wednesday and looked every bit like the veteran pitcher he has become by striking out three over two innings, and exiting the game with a 1-0 lead. And then everything went quickly downhill from there. The next three Twins pitchers did a fantastic job of impersonating... Continue Reading »

A month ago it appeared Twins Territory, the fan base that supports the Twins, was collectively losing its mind over the lack of deal-making this offseason. The Twins locked up former Angels reliever, Hansel Robles, toward the end of December, and then it was followed by silence (but angst on Twitter) as other top free... Continue Reading »