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 »

Forget the fire sale, forget the muted spending and forget the lack of high-profile free agents because if Monday’s win over the Pittsburgh Pirates is an indication of things to come, then this Twins team is going to be OK. They put it all together in the 5-1 victory. Starter Joe Ryan, taking the mound... Continue Reading »

I don’t care if it’s a pick-up game, a softball game, or some kind of private exhibition at either Yankee Stadium or Target Field. Anytime the Twins can run up the score on the New York Yankees is cause for celebration. So break out the party hats and funny whistles because on Thursday the Twins... Continue Reading »

Starting pitcher Pablo Lopez, who has won 31 games over three seasons for the Twins, including a 15-10 mark in 2024, and who played a huge role in snapping the club’s long playoff drought, is effectively gone after it was announced he will undergo Tommy John surgery and miss the entire 2026 season. Some might... 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 won the finale over the Cleveland Guardians and they did it again Tuesday with a 4-1 win on the road against the Texas Rangers. Starting pitching Daniel Zebulon Matthews bounced back in a huge way after he had a terrible outing against the New York Yankees. Zebby allowed just a run, a first-inning... Continue Reading »

Maybe the Twins can play spoiler after all against these New York Yankees. Simeon Woods Richardson made the best start of his young pitching career, three doubles in the seventh inning triggered a five-run outburst and the Twins went on to beat the Yankees, the team’s all-time nemesis, 7-0, limiting the Bronx Bombers to just... Continue Reading »

The Twins snapped their six-game losing streak on Sunday with a 5-1 win over the Kansas City Royals. Bailey Ober had one of his best outings in recent memory and Byron Buxton and Kody Clemens connected for home runs No. 30 and No. 16. But despite the win, the bullpen again did its very best... Continue Reading »

For the first time ever, the Chicago White Sox have swept a four-game series from the Twins at home, adding grave insult to an already terrible year. There’s also this unfortunate reality: the South Siders actually are a team on the rise while the Twins are nothing more than a handful of recent acquisitions and... Continue Reading »