The Twins won their final series of the 2026 season over the Texas Rangers, including a 6-4 win on Sunday. The Twins wrap things up with a 77-85 record, good enough for third place in the American League Central. Was it a good season? In many ways, yes. After the Twins traded away all of... Continue Reading »

It’s the best kind of Independence Day celebration for this fan because the Twins, a team that usually wilts when facing the New York Yankees, found its footing again on Saturday and showed off the American League’s best run-scoring offense by clobbering six home runs in an 11-4 rout of the Bronx Bombers at the... Continue Reading »

How many closers do the Minnesota Twins have? Well, they have 11 pitchers who have recorded at least one of the team’s 17 saves, and now the Twins have decided to add to that melange after they picked up another reliever who was designated for assignment. And why not? The Twins’ have the sixth highest... Continue Reading »

Portland, Oregon’s Mick Abel, who hadn’t allowed an earned run coming into Friday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays, finally got touched up in the 6-1 loss to the Jays. Still, Abel, a former first-round pick of the Philadelphia Phillies who came to Minnesota last season in exchange for closer Jhoan Duran, has pitched well... Continue Reading »

Twins infielder Jose Miranda… Slashed .268/.325/.426 with 119 hits, 15 home runs and 66 RBI in 2022. He hit .284/.322/.441 with 114 hits and 28 doubles in 2024, and during that same summer — really, the season’s only highlight — tied a 73-year-old major league record with 12 consecutive hits. Yes, there were injuries and... Continue Reading »

Twins starter Joe Ryan allowed just two runs across five innings, but when your lineup backs you with only a run on four hits, the result is bound to be a loss, and so it was: The Twins fell 3-1 on the road to the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday. The end of the season is... Continue Reading »

The Twins got a firsthand look at two new pitching prospects over the weekend and things did not go well, resulting in a series loss to the Chicago White Sox. On Sunday, Taj Bradley, who came to the Twins in the deal that sent reliever Griffin Jax to the Tampa Bay Rays, got the ball... Continue Reading »

The House of Horrors that is Yankee Stadium for the Minnesota Twins rolled on Monday as the Bronx Bombers hit three solo home runs, the Twins countered with two of their own and then the bullpen let it slip away for a 6-2 Yankees win. Despite being tagged with the loss, starting pitcher Daniel Zebulon... Continue Reading »

The new-look Twins took the field on Friday against the Cleveland Guardians, but there was nothing new about the way they lost. For the third time this season — and the 11th time in the past five seasons — the Twins lost yet again in walk-off fashion 3-2 in 10 innings to the Guards. Joe... Continue Reading »