The Twins avoided being swept at home on Sunday, getting eight-plus strong innings from starter Daniel Zebulon Matthews to beat the Chicago White Sox 5-1. It was a good win for Matthews, and he finishes August with an unblemished 5-0 record, but overall it was a hugely disappointing series because the Twins did little to... Continue Reading »

The Twins lost again on Friday, a 7-4 defeat to the Chicago White Sox at home to drop them further back in the race for either the division or wild card. The loss also acted as a reminder of just how challenging late-summer baseball has been for this team over the past three seasons. The... Continue Reading »

Al Worthington, a deeply religious man who found late-in-career success as a reliever with the Minnesota Twins in the 1960s, died Thursday, the team announced. He was 97. Worthington struggled as a starter, but converted to a closer and wound up saving 88 of his 111 career saves with the Twins during some of the... Continue Reading »

Other than the lack of runs the past week and fears about the state of the bullpen, the Twins have also curiously struggled right out of the gates this spring. And it happened again on Sunday after starter Taj Bradley dug a quick hole by allowing three runs. It wasn’t the first time for the... Continue Reading »

Outfielder Hosken Powell, who played four seasons with the Twins in the late 1970s and as a rookie cracked home runs against two future Hall of Fame pitchers, died this past June in Pensacola, Florida. He was 70. Powell was drafted out of Chipola College by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first round of the... Continue Reading »

The names are starting to roll in as possible hires to be the next Twins manager, and a number of them have a connection to the team, according to various reports. They include former catcher Kurt Suzuki, former piranha Nick Punto, former hitting coach James Rowson and former bench coach Derek Shelton. I’ve got one... Continue Reading »

The Twins scored 4.19 runs per game in 2025, a figure that is not going to win you many games, and so it didn’t as the club finished well out of the running in the AL Central at 70-92. And given that team ownership appears to be in a cost-cutting frame of mind — what... Continue Reading »

You never know when you’re going to have a Minnesota Twins moment. There I was watching You Tube when an old WGN White Sox/ Twins broadcast popped up in my feed. The game? Oct. 3, 1981, the second to last contest of the strike-interrupted season in which Minnesota wrapped things up at Comiskey Park. The... Continue Reading »

Whether it was because of his age or his contract, Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Kaat, a charter member of the Twins who spent 15 seasons in Washington, D.C., and Minnesota, finally was placed on waivers in the late summer of 1973. In a profile of Kaat, the Society for American Baseball Research suggests that... Continue Reading »