Twins starter Bailey Ober accomplished a rare feat on Tuesday in the team’s win over the Miami Marlins. It wasn’t a perfect game, and it wasn’t a no-hitter, but let’s call it near-perfection anyway after Ober went the distance on just 89 pitches, allowing all of two hits, no walks and seven strikeouts in his... Continue Reading »

The Twins have made a number of modest free-agent deals this season — a first baseman and a catcher come to mind — but what most Twins fans have been waiting for and most worried about, I think, is whether the club is going to augment the bullpen in any significant way. Why should anyone... Continue Reading »

The term “evil empire” used to be synonymous with the New York Yankees, but now the Bronx Bombers look absolutely tame and tepid alongside the Los Angeles Dodgers, a money-spending, player-hording, behemoth of a team that appears willing to hoover up any talent in sight to maintain their World Series-winning ways. The latest example? The... Continue Reading »

Kansas City Royals third base coach Vance Wilson reportedly was a candidate to be the next manager of the Twins, a move that seemed straight out of left field, if you ask me. Perhaps there was positive chatter about him in baseball circles, but otherwise his resume underwhelmed. He is a former catcher turned minor... Continue Reading »

Twins manager Rocco Baldelli, who turned 44 on Sept. 25, received an unwelcome gift of sorts after he was sent packing on Monday, ending his seven-year tenure as manager of the club. Baldelli was the third winningest manager of the Twins behind Tom Kelly and Ron Gardenhire at 527-505. After he was first hired, he... Continue Reading »

Twins starting pitcher Zebby Matthews rebounded nicely on Tuesday and Taj Bradley followed suit, allowing just a run over six innings with nine strikeouts on Wednesday. But the bullpen got into trouble again and this time the Texas Rangers emerged with a 4-2 win. Reliever Travis Adams followed Bradley and promptly served up single, single,... Continue Reading »

The six-game losing streak is over after the Twins ran away from the Reds 12-5 on Thursday. They avoided the sweep, they evened their record at 37-37 and now they head home. Thursday’s win started just like Wednesday’s loss. Byron Buxton homered in the first inning and the Reds countered with two runs in the... Continue Reading »

Despite the one-run loss, Saturday’s Twins game was almost as interesting as the late-in-the-game, run-scoring bonanza that unfolded on Friday. It had just about everything: home runs, player and manager ejections, close plays at home and at second base, a throwing error and a walk-off fielder’s choice that finally gave the M’s a 5-4 win... Continue Reading »

The Twins’ winning streak reached lucky No. 13 on Saturday with another shut out victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. Three more wins and the Twins will break the team record of 15 straight victories, which was set in the World Series-winning season of 1991. However, Saturday’s 7-0 victory punched the Twins’ ticket in another way:... Continue Reading »