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- Twins Designate Esmerling Vasquez For Assignment
- via Twins Digest February 09, 2012 at 06:37 PM
The Twins have designated Esmerling Vasquez for assignment, reports Joe Christensen of The Star Tribune. The move creates room on the 40-man roster for the recently claimed Darin Mastroianni. Vasquez, 28, was claimed off waivers from the Diamondbacks back in September. He appeared in 31 games for Arizona last year, posting a 4.15 ERA with 5.9 K/9, 3.9 BB/9 and a 35.5% ground ball rate in 30 1/3 in
- Twins claim minor league outfielder off waivers from Blue Jays
- via Twins Digest February 09, 2012 at 04:38 PM
The Minnesota Twins announced Thursday that they have claimed outfielder Darin Mastroianni off waivers from the Toronto Blue Jays. The Blue Jays designated the 26-year-old Mastroianni for assignment last week in order to free up a roster spot for ...
- Twins Claim Darin Mastroianni
- via Twins Digest February 09, 2012 at 02:55 PM
The Twins announced that they claimed Darin Mastroianni from the Blue Jays, Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com tweets. The Blue Jays designated the outfielder for assignment last week to create roster space for Francisco Cordero. Mastroianni made his ML...
- Alexi Casilla & Jed Lowrie Head To Arbitration
- via Twins Digest February 08, 2012 at 03:55 PM
Only two of the 13 remaining unsigned arbitration eligible players filed for less than $2MM: Alexi Casilla and Jed Lowrie. Though they’re reasonably similar in terms of career stats, Casilla is arbitration eligible for the second time, so the players relevant to his case are different than the players relevant to Lowrie’s. Casilla, who earned $865K in 2011, posted a .260/.322/.368 line with two ho
- Mackey: Five key factors for Twins to become relevant again in 2012
- via Twins Digest February 06, 2012 at 11:03 PM
The early batches of 2012 MLB standings projections have already been pulled out of the oven. This one, using the Marcel method -- short for "Marcel the Monkey" from the TV show Friends -- has the Minnesota Twins at 68-94 due mostly to allowing the mos...
- Mackey: Bad year gets worse for Nishioka, but Twins offer clean slate
- via Twins Digest February 06, 2012 at 08:26 AM
It's pretty safe to say Minnesota Twins infielder Tsuyoshi Nishioka will never experience a 12-month period quite like the one he had in 2011. The year began with Nishioka commanding more media attention, by far, than any player on the Twins' roster du...
- Twins scouting Heath Bell
- via Twins Digest March 20, 2010 at 04:26 PM
Bob Nightengale of USA Today wrote that the Twins are extensively scouting Heath Bell of the San Diego Padres for a possible trade.
- Twins send four to Rochester
- via Twins Digest March 20, 2010 at 04:26 PM
Twins optioned infielders Danny Valencia, Trevor Plouffe and Luke Hughes and right handed pitcher Anthony Swarzak.
- Former Twin Bonser likely moving
- via Twins Digest March 20, 2010 at 04:26 PM
The right hander is out of options, so in order for the Red Sox to keep the pitcher, they would need to put him through waivers to make it down to the minors.
