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Minnesota Twins: Can Justin Morneau Hit 25 Bombs in 2012?: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 17, 2012 at 10:49 PM; The Minnesota Twins can look at the return of Justin Morneau in two ways. The optimist Twins fan views his return as a jolt to an offense that desperately needs it. The pessimist looks at Morneau's return and thinks that it will be short-lived because of his recent injury history.No matter how you view Justin Morneau, there is no debating that he is one of the biggest question marks for the Twins.
Who's Who Among the American League's Worst: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 17, 2012 at 08:19 PM; Baseball is full of surprises. Among the worst performances thus far in the 2012 season, a handful of teams are doing remarkably well, given their statistical inferiority.Can Oakland maintain? Will the Angels, Tigers and Red Sox continue their struggles? A quick peek at teams' weak spots might shed some light into the future.Here's a look at the American League's worst-overall team performanc
Miguel Sano: 8 Reasons Twins Fans Should Be Ecstatic: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 17, 2012 at 07:31 AM; Right now in Beloit, Wisc., a 19-year-old holds the future of the Minnesota Twins franchise in his hands and, more importantly, in his bat. Miguel Sano is the Twins top prospect and is dominating Low-A ball, raising the question if he should be promoted up to high-A Fort Myers.Here's why Twins fans should be excited about Sano.Begin Slideshow
Minnesota Twins: Is It Finally Time to Part Ways with Nick Blackburn?: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 17, 2012 at 12:55 AM; For the Minnesota Twins to turn around their nightmare season of 2012, they will need someone to step up and take charge, both in the clubhouse and on the field. Someone who says "enough already" and puts this team on his back and carries them until a few others catch on, and get the team moving in a positive direction.When a starting pitcher steps up and leads by example, he's usually called the
Minnesota Twins Need to Trade for Red Sox Ace Josh Beckett: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 15, 2012 at 09:14 AM; It is mid-May, but the Minnesota Twins' season is on the brink of catastrophe once again. They barely have their 10 wins, the lowest win total in the majors. The problems are plenty in Minnesota, but the biggest gaping hole is with the starting pitching. Minnesota is the worst pitching team in all of baseball, with a team ERA of 5.30. You can't win many ball games allowing over five runs a co
Minnesota Twins Players of the Week 5/7-5/13: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 14, 2012 at 10:55 AM; The Minnesota Twins' continued roster changes are finally starting to pay off.This week saw the Major League debut of shortstop Brian Dozier and the season debuts of Scott Diamond, P.J. Walters and Darin Mastroianni.Each played well when called upon, combining with the surviving Twins roster for a 3-4 record at Target Field this week.The week started with Jered Weaver and the Angels defeating the
Minnesota Twins: Perhaps Joe Mauer Should Give Back the Money: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 11, 2012 at 04:55 PM; So far for the Minnesota Twins, 2012 has been a nightmare.After finishing in last place in the AL Central in 2011 with a 63-99 record, the Twins are on a pace to do even worse. If they continue at their current .258 winning percentage, they will lose 120 games, establishing a franchise low and eclipsing the 113 losses of the Washington Senators in 1904, a mark that has lasted for 107 years.There's
Minnesota Twins: What Is the Team's Ultimate Goal?: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 11, 2012 at 12:26 PM; When Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad died January 5, 2009 something strange happened in Twins Territory.Gone was the old miser, a man who once sought contraction (and a payday) for his own team by selling to Major League Baseball.He ran the team like his many other businesses, as a money-making venture. Wins and losses were secondary to dollars and cents and the product on the field re
Minnesota Twins: 10 Positives in an Otherwise Depressing Year: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 11, 2012 at 08:25 AM; Finding a needle in a haystack would be a pretty difficult task. That is, of course, assuming that a needle is in there at all.We search and search through the hay—and probably some animal droppings—in hopes of finding that one needle. Few people find that needle and fewer people find positives in the 2012 Minnesota Twins season. The Twins have underperformed thus far, to say the least
Updating 5 Contenders Who Will Covet Josh Willingham in a Trade: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 09, 2012 at 07:13 AM; The Minnesota Twins are terrible right now.At 8-21, they are the worst team in Major League Baseball with a bullet. When a team does terribly, there is a small cry for teams to trade their best players for big returns.The Twins don't have many things that they can use to get such a big return. A lot of the Twins assets could be considered damaged goods or something that couldn't bring back much of
Brian Dozier's Arrival Shines a Light of Hope on Minnesota Twins: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 08, 2012 at 08:01 PM; It’s a bird, it’s a plane—it’s Brian Dozier. Not much has brought excitement to Minnesota Twins fans this season, but the arrival of Brian Dozier might just shine a light of hope. Dozier made his major league debut on Monday for the Twins, going 1-for-4 at the plate while starting at shortstop. Brian Dozier has been hyped in Twins Territory since last year and the failed Ts
Minnesota Twins Players of the Week: 4/30-5/6: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 08, 2012 at 08:49 AM; The Minnesota Twins hit the road again last week and it turned out to be a historic trip—for all of the wrong reasons.The Twins were swept by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and lost two of three to the Seattle Mariners, but the 1-5 record on the road trip only tells part of the story.Starting pitching continued to be a major issue for the Twins, as their starters combined to allow 22 earn
Minnesota Twins: 5 Players That Could Lead a Youth Movement: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 03, 2012 at 11:02 PM; In the wake of Jared Weaver's no-hitter against the Minnesota Twins on May 2, it's clear that the Twins need to make a change of some sort.When a team is struggling, the knee-jerk reaction by most fans is to fire the manager. The problem in this situation is that if the Twins decide to do that, they'll be kicking out a regime that's had sustained success for a decade. At this point, such a move se
Minnesota Twins: A Baseball Team's Downward Spiral into Mediocrity: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 03, 2012 at 08:01 PM; Lets get this straight, what I am about to write is coming from a fan who is very upset. This year, which I will put very mildly, has been a disappointment. Our starting pitching has been so bad that I actually miss Boof Bonser. I have two theories on why this team is bad. For one, the owners of the Twins (the Pohlads) told all of us, if we build it, then they will bring in free agents and ke
Minnesota Twins: Changing Fortunes Starts at the Top: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 03, 2012 at 07:50 AM; Ron Gardenhire needs to be fired.This is not a knee-jerk reaction to the Twins' no-hit loss in Anaheim last night. This is not even an overreaction to the Twins' dreadful 6-18 start to the season. This is 100 percent because the Twins' organization needs to make a strong statement about the present and future of the ballclub.Let me be clear, Ron Gardenhire is a great manager. For&nb
Minnesota Twins: Why They've Hit Rock Bottom After Jered Weaver No-Hitter: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 03, 2012 at 01:13 AM; Watching the Minnesota Twins the past couple of seasons, there's been one question that Twins fans have been asking themselves repeatedly: "Well, it can't get any worse...can it?"When Justin Morneau went down with a concussion in July 2010, Twins fans asked that question. Next thing they knew, concussion-like symptoms and injuries to his wrist and neck sidelined the Canadian Crusher and made him a
Justin Morneau Injury: Twins' First Baseman Flying Back to Minnesota for Tests: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 01, 2012 at 12:32 PM; It seems as if Justin Morneau's healthy streak has again come to an end, leaving the Minnesota Twins' game last night against the Los Angeles Angels with soreness in his surgically repaired left wrist.According to Joe Christensen of the Minnesota Star Tribune, Morneau will fly back to Minnesota to get tests done on his wrist that was repaired in October.In 20 games this season, Morneau was hitting
Minnesota Twins: Do They Have the Worst Pitching in the MLB?: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins May 01, 2012 at 09:32 AM; “What the hell’s going on out there?” Vince Lombardi might has well have been talking about the Minnesota Twins starting rotation. Manager Ron Gardenhire has had to have muttered that statement to himself once or twice this season. The Twins are 6-15 before heading out west for a road trip and are tied for the bottom spot in the AL Central with Kansas City. The Twins are six
7 MLB Closers on the Brink of Losing Their Jobs: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins April 30, 2012 at 02:13 PM; When it comes to closers in baseball, there's Mariano Rivera, and then there's everybody else.That's a fact, Jack—one that's indisputable.For more than a decade, the New York Yankees have been spoiled, knowing that once the game reaches the ninth inning, it's a virtual certainty that Mo will come in and get the job done.But for the rest of the league, having such a powerful weapon at the bac
Minnesota Twins Players of the Week 4/23-4/29: via Bleacher Report - MN Twins April 30, 2012 at 01:13 PM; The Minnesota Twins returned to Target Field this week after spending last week on the east coast and proceeded to take it on the chin.The Boston Red Sox broke out of their collective slumps by sweeping the Twins and the Kansas City Royals continued the Twins losing streak before Gardy's crew won the last game of a rain-shortened series.Minnesota's favorite ballclub finished the week 1-4, but