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 »

You never know when you’re going to have a Minnesota Twins moment. Once again my son and I found ourselves in the Centralia/Chehalis area of Washington state — which, by the way, is known as the Twin Cities of Lewis County — visiting an antique store. The store owner had stack upon stack of old... Continue Reading »

If you needed another example of the haves and have nots of baseball, look no further than the Twins, who so far this offseason have announced a few minor league deals, picked up a player who had been designated for assignment by the Miami Marlins and signed Josh Staumont to a one-year agreement. Who is... Continue Reading »

The Twins overcame some cheap hits and a couple of errors to finally run way from the St. Louis Browns* by a score of 7-2 on Tuesday. The Twins have now won 11 of their last 12 games and improved to 15-9 in the American League Central after they started the season 4-8. They go... Continue Reading »

In our slower, baseball-less world, except in South Korea, of course, I found myself staring at Twitter when a tweet popped up about a horrible Twins loss on May 13, 1985. Where did this happen? Where else? The Bronx, the site of so much Twins agony. On that spring night at Yankee Stadium, the Twins... Continue Reading »

The 39th anniversary of a fateful trade made by the Minnesota Twins came and went last week, a date that likely slipped past many Twins fans. But not this fan. That’s because I’ll never forget sitting in the Kingdome with my father, watching the Twins increase their lead over the Seattle Mariners to 7-4 as... Continue Reading »

Twins fans who are old enough to remember reliever Ron Davis likely had a debilitating flashback on Thursday after watching closer Fernando Rodney serve up a walk-off home run to Adam Jones and the Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles prevailed 3-2 in 11 innings and the Twins lost on Opening Day for the ninth time in... Continue Reading »

Closer Fernando Rodney is in the house after the Twins signed him to a one-year deal worth $4.5 million. Here’s the good news: Rodney has 300 career saves, including 39 last season, a career ERA of 3.73 and he struck out 65 batters in 55-plus innings in 2017. Apply that over nine innings and Rodney... Continue Reading »

The Twins travel to the Northwest in late May, which means the continuation of a tradition that started 30-some years ago when my father and I decided to see at least one Twins game every season. It’s not a perfect streak: It was interrupted by college, by living in Japan for seven years and by... Continue Reading »