Aaron Gleeman

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Aaron Gleeman is the poster boy for Twins Blogging, and sports blogging in general. Unable to find his way into Journalism school, he established his personal blog back when "blog" was a little known term.

He has become one of the most established names in sports blogging and is currently employed by NBC Sports. He still finds time to provide some of the best Twins content around on his site, despite his many other writing gigs.

Latest Content from Aaron Gleeman

Podcast: “Gleeman and The Geek” (Episode 27): via Aaron Gleeman February 08, 2012 at 01:18 AM; This week's episode of "Gleeman and The Geek" was recorded at Wild Boar in Hopkins and our special guest was FSN on-air talent and "MLB Fan Cave" hopeful Lindsay Guentzel. She drank vodka, I drank beer, and John Bonnes drank ... water. Topics included the good and bad sides of female baseball fandom, Ron Gardenhire's [...]
Me at Baseball Prospectus: via Aaron Gleeman February 07, 2012 at 08:54 AM; My excitement about this may be difficult to properly convey because I've been writing about baseball on the internet for a decade now and am fortunate to have had my byline appear in all sorts of great places, but today I have a guest column at Baseball Prospectus and ... well, the 15-year-old me who [...]
Twins Notes: Relievers, starters, outfielders, draftees, and signing an MVP: via Aaron Gleeman February 05, 2012 at 11:36 PM; • Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com has the details of Joel Zumaya's one-year deal with the Twins. He's guaranteed $400,000 even if they cut him during spring training and that would turn into $850,000 if Zumaya is on the Opening Day roster, with another $900,000 in potential bonuses based on appearances. If he were to stay [...]
Link-O-Rama: via Aaron Gleeman February 02, 2012 at 10:18 PM; • These would be the latest fashion trend for bloggers, except we don't wear pants. • I was a guest on "Fan Graphs Audio" with Carson Cistulli and had a great time chatting about non-baseball stuff for around 45 of the 50 minutes. We discussed the Twins briefly at the end, but not before talking [...]
Podcast: “Gleeman and The Geek” (Episode 26): via Aaron Gleeman January 31, 2012 at 09:42 PM; This week's episode of "Gleeman and The Geek" was recorded at ... my house. John Bonnes called in sick, so instead of skipping a week I decided to pour myself a scotch and do a solo show. Topics included how he's like Joe Mauer and I'm like Michael Cuddyer, buying a Macbook, the latest reliever [...]
One week only: Gleeman, without The Geek: via Aaron Gleeman January 31, 2012 at 12:06 PM; John Bonnes is out sick, but instead of skipping this week's "Gleeman and The Geek" show I'm going to record a solo episode. If nothing else me babbling to myself for an hour should make my co-host's value very clear and it also means I could use some help filling the time, so if you [...]
Matt Capps, Axl Rose, and the Twins’ bullpen: via Aaron Gleeman January 29, 2012 at 10:41 PM; Back on December 5 when the Twins re-signed Matt Capps my objection to the move focused on three things. One was that he just isn't a closer-caliber pitcher. Two was that $4.75 million is far too high a price, particularly given their payroll constraints this offseason. And three was that in re-signing him they forfeited [...]
Link-O-Rama: via Aaron Gleeman January 26, 2012 at 09:18 PM; • Rihanna seems like fun. • In retrospect, Kevin Garnett had the right idea in this picture. • If she wasn't already an Official Fantasy Girl of AG.com candidate this quote would put Lizzy Caplan in the mix: "What I like to do every single night is fall asleep watching Larry Sanders." • Joe Mauer [...]
Podcast: “Gleeman and The Geek” (Episode 25): via Aaron Gleeman January 25, 2012 at 01:06 AM; This week's episode of "Gleeman and The Geek" was recorded at the Wild Boar in Hopkins and my beer choice was Leinenkugel Honey Weiss. Topics included Kevin Slowey returning to the AL Central, Prince Fielder signing with the Tigers, how we react to a drunk woman showing us her bra in the middle of the [...]
Twins Notes: Morneau, Slowey, Turpen, Putnam, French, and Tolbert: via Aaron Gleeman January 23, 2012 at 09:54 PM; • Joe Christensen of the Minneapolis Star Tribune traveled to Arizona to see Justin Morneau's workout routine and wrote a lengthy article about his latest comeback. Morneau revealed that he had concussion symptoms as recently as last month, which is awfully worrisome considering his initial brain injury occurred nearly 18 months ago and he still [...]
Twins Notes: Arbitration, invitations, compensation, and reconsideration: via Aaron Gleeman January 19, 2012 at 09:48 PM; • Tuesday night was the deadline for players and teams to submit salary figures for arbitration hearings to be held next month, but the Twins avoided that with Francisco Liriano and Glen Perkins by signing them to one-year deals. Liriano got $5.5 million for his third and final year of arbitration eligibility, which is exactly [...]
Podcast: “Gleeman and The Geek” (Episode 24): via Aaron Gleeman January 18, 2012 at 01:24 AM; This week's episode of "Gleeman and The Geek" was recorded at the Wild Boar in Hopkins, my beer of choice was Leinenkugel Honey Weiss, and we were joined by special guest and fellow Twins blogger Nick Nelson. Topics included Joel Zumaya signing, Glen Perkins, Alexi Casilla, Francisco Liriano, and the arbitration process, Roy Oswalt rumors, [...]
Twins add hard-throwing, oft-injured Joel Zumaya to bullpen mix: via Aaron Gleeman January 15, 2012 at 10:36 PM; Joel Zumaya hasn't appeared in a major-league game since gruesomely fracturing his elbow while throwing a pitch to Delmon Young at Target Field on June 28, 2010, but the oft-injured reliever was healthy enough to impress the dozens of scouts attending his workout last month and yesterday the Twins signed him. Assuming that Zumaya passes [...]
Link-O-Rama: via Aaron Gleeman January 12, 2012 at 10:36 PM; • By virtue of her contribution to Jay-Z's new song his week-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter has already experienced more success than 99 percent of musicians ever will. • One bad thing about being George Clooney is that he has to make such difficult tradeoffs. • Alex Rodriguez definitely has a type. • Rob McElhenney [...]
Podcast: “Gleeman and The Geek” (Episode 23): via Aaron Gleeman January 11, 2012 at 12:54 AM; This week's episode of "Gleeman and The Geek" was recorded at Scoreboard Bar and Grill in Minnetonka and my beer of choice was Sam Adams. Our mailbag show back in November went well, so we again took questions from listeners, covering a wide range of topics including the payroll drop, what happens if Justin Morneau [...]
Got a question, comment, or topic idea for this week’s podcast?: via Aaron Gleeman January 09, 2012 at 09:42 PM; Our first two mailbag episodes of "Gleeman and The Geek" worked so well for the podcast that we're doing it again, so John Bonnes and I are soliciting questions, comments, and topic ideas from the audience. If there's something you'd like to hear us read, answer, discuss, or argue about on tonight's show you can [...]
Leftover notes on Josh Willingham and Michael Cuddyer: via Aaron Gleeman January 08, 2012 at 11:54 PM; I wrote plenty about Josh Willingham replacing Michael Cuddyer when the Twins signed him last month, but here are some leftover notes about their new right fielder and old right fielder: • If you don't count re-signings and Tsuyoshi Nishioka's posting fee the $21 million deal given to Willingham is bigger than any two previous [...]
Link-O-Rama: via Aaron Gleeman January 05, 2012 at 11:42 PM; • Much to the delight of The Wire fans, Omar Little got arrested in Baltimore last week. • Simon Konecki may not know it yet, but someday he'll be the subject of a No. 1 album. • Adrian Peterson didn't let career-altering knee surgery ruin his New Year's Eve celebration. • Howard Stern used Twitter [...]
Podcast: “Gleeman and The Geek” (Episode 22): via Aaron Gleeman January 03, 2012 at 11:42 PM; This week's episode of "Gleeman and The Geek" was recorded at Wild Boar in Hopkins and my beer of choice was Leinenkugel Honey Weiss, plus John Bonnes also ordered me a birthday-decorated Glenlevit scotch pictured below. Topics included me getting old, Jason Marquis filling out the rotation, whether the Twins will sign a right-handed reliever, [...]
Beginning my age-29 season: via Aaron Gleeman January 02, 2012 at 10:18 PM; I started this blog as a 19-year-old and today is my 29th birthday, which probably qualifies as more depressing than impressive. I'm not big into celebrating birthdays--as of now my exciting plans for the evening involve recording a podcast--but it does seem like a good time for a little state-of-the-blog (and state-of-the-blogger) address. And to [...]