The Twins scored early, the Chicago White Sox scored late to tie the game, and then both teams played two frames of nail-biting baseball in extra innings on Tuesday. In the bottom of the 10th inning, Twins’ veteran lefty reliever Taylor Rogers struck out a batter, served up a single and then induced a short... Continue Reading »

No Royce Lewis, no Ryan Jeffers (a bigger problem, of course) and a number of other team moves have temporarily remade the Twins for the short term, although they didn’t exactly roar out of the dugout on Tuesday and set the world on fire. Byron Buxton and Josh Bell certainly tried, however. They accounted for... Continue Reading »

The Twins bullpen held on for a 2-1 win Saturday and then they did it all over again 5-4 on Sunday to give the team its first series win at Cleveland in nearly three years. The two teams were tied at 1-1 in the 3rd inning and then the Twins went to work in the... Continue Reading »

I woke up Saturday morning and nearly spat out my coffee after I learned that Twins starting pitcher Taj Bradley — by far the team’s best pitcher in the early going — had landed on the 15-day injured list. All you can do is laugh is what I intended to write this evening because the... Continue Reading »

After dropping two of three games to the Tampa Bay Rays, the Twins reasserted themselves with a four-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers, including Thursday’s 3-1 victory. Josh Bell smacked a solo home run — one of three hits on the day for him — and Brooks Lee finally rose to the occasion with a... Continue Reading »

The Detroit Tigers’ Tarik Skubal may have won back-to-back Cy Young awards, but it was the Twins’ Taj Bradley who appeared to deserve the honor in Minnesota’s 4-2 win over Motown on Tuesday. Bradley was brilliant as he struck out 10 across six-plus innings, allowing just a run and no walks in the 104-pitch effort.... Continue Reading »

The Sunday positives: Six runs on 12 hits, including extra-base hits from Josh Bell and Royce Lewis, as well as two hits apiece from Victor Caratini, Trevor Larnach and Tristan Gray. The Sunday negatives: Sub-par pitching, missed opportunities (10 left on base), lousy base-running and plenty of ABS-generated controversy which finally resulted in Twins Manager... Continue Reading »

Days before spring training is supposed to begin — as noted by many across social media — the Twins have shockingly announced that the club and chief of baseball operations Derek Falvey, who was hired in 2016, have decided to go their separate ways. None of this is good, of course. This is the kind... Continue Reading »

You never know when you’re going to have an unsettling Minnesota Twins moment. As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently opened a 32-year-old pack of Topps baseball cards with a friend and immediately found a Kirby Puckett card, only then to discover that there were two cards stuck together. As I peeled them... Continue Reading »