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The Starting Rotation: via Twins Territory via the Colonel February 22, 2010 at 02:24 AM; Let's look at the contestants and their nicknames.- Carl Pavano (Mix)- Scott Baker (Cupcake)- Nick Blackburn (Smokey)- Kevin Slowey (Ponch)- Glen Perkins (Kitty)- Francisco Liriano (Roni)- Brian Duensing (Elf)- Jeff Manship (Arrrggghhh!)- Anthony Swarzak (tbd)The general consensus is that Baker, Pavano, Slowey & Blackburn have the front 4 spots nailed down and that the other 5 are battling fo
The Bullpen: via Twins Territory via the Colonel February 22, 2010 at 02:24 AM; With pitchers and catcher reporting today I figured I'd take a look at our contestants for the bullpen and remind you of their nicknames.- Joe Nathan (horse)- Jesse Crain (bob-doze)- Jose Mijares (roly)- Matt Guerrier (fro or goo-rare when he's suckin it up)- Pat Neshek (tbd)- Jon Rauch (Gigantor)- Clay Condrey (tbd)- Glen Perkins (Kitty)- Francisco Liriano (Roni)Here are my thoughts on each guy.J
Baseball, Baseball, catch the fever now!: via Twins Territory via the Colonel February 17, 2010 at 09:23 PM; While I work on a post of my thoughts on the Twins starting rotation for the upcoming season I thought I'd share with you a song that somehow makes it's way into my mind on a weekly basis.
One week and counting: via Twins Territory via the Colonel February 17, 2010 at 09:23 PM; With all of major league baseball starting up spring training over this next week you start to wonder some of the yearly questions...1. What players south of the border are going to be delayed arriving at camp because of Visa issues, even though they've know when camp starts since the end of last season?2. Which players are going to come in overweight or having dropped a few lbs?3. Which lazy jack
First visit to Target Field: via Twins Territory via the Colonel February 14, 2010 at 03:35 PM; I just purchased tickets for a friend of mine and I to see our first game at Target Field. Being a transplanted Twins fan I was kind of concerned as to when I might get to see a Twins game at Target Field.Since I get Good Friday off of work I decided to come back home to Minnesota over Easter weekend. At first I was kind of annoyed that I would be home a week before the opening of Target Field unt
Link love from the Star Trib: via Twins Territory via the Colonel February 14, 2010 at 03:35 PM; While checking my blog stats I noticed some links coming in from the Star Tribune. It turns out some of us Punto blog posters got some link love from Seth Stohs, sports blogger at the Star Tribune.Celebrating Nuck Punto DayAndrew Kneeland, who writes a Twins blog called Twins Target, came up with an idea a couple of weeks ago. He decided that February 12thwould be Nick Punto Day (more...)
Newsflash: Jason Pridie is out Jacque Jones is in: via Twins Territory via the Colonel February 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM; To make room for Orlando Hudson the Twins pushed Jason Pridie off the 40 man roster. According to the Twins official Twitter account the Mets have claimed him.The bigger news is that the Twins have signed Jacque Jones to a minor league contract with an invite to spring training.This means that we could have the original JJ back (not JJ Hardy) in the outfield this season. Though I'd think it's unli
Expectations increase with increased payroll?: via Twins Territory via the Colonel February 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM; A couple of interesting facts...- 1. The Twins payroll has increased by almost 50% this off season- 2. The Twins payroll will be larger than the Dodgers this year. What does this mean? In the matter of 1 off season we're going from a small market team to a respectable mid-market team. Of course the Yankees payroll is still more than double that of the Twins but I think the point is clear. After th
It's Nick Punto Day!: via Twins Territory via the Colonel February 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM; A couple weeks ago John over at TwinsGeek declared today Nick Punto day so of course I had to participate.Every since Nick Punto started working his way into our lineup after the Twins traded away Eric Milton for him and Carlos Silva before the 2004 season I have enjoyed his style of play. There aren't many people I haven't heard bash Punto (also known as my ManFriend) at one time or the other and
Nicknaming the Twins: via Twins Territory via the Colonel August 27, 2009 at 10:38 PM; A handful of us from the office took the afternoon off last Thursday to attend the Twins vs Royals game. As the game went on and Pavano struggled his way through the first few innings my Twins Buddy in the office (Lacey) & I began creating nicknames for most of the Twins players. Some of them were already set and others have a long but still somewhat direct connection to their name and others
May I Point Out...: via Twins Territory via the Colonel July 29, 2009 at 07:05 AM; ...that Nick Punto is batting .400 and has 5rbi in the last 3 games? I will also mention that he has scored in each of the last 3 games. I know Punto is easy to hate because his bat just won't consistently put out hits but it's nice to see him get on little streaks of productivity like this to continue proving his worth to the club. In other news... will the Twins make a trade by the deadline Frid
The good and bad of 16 innings: via Twins Territory via the Colonel July 04, 2009 at 01:35 PM; Anyone who's a Twins fan knows that the they lost in extra extra extra innings last night. Of course the bad is that they lost the first game in a big central division series. Here is the good...- Fernando Rodney & Joel Zumaya each threw more pitches than Kevin Slowey- Joe Nathan & Matt Guerrier only threw 1 inning eachWhat does that mean? It means that the Tigers 2 best relievers threw so
Do I see a pattern developing?: via Twins Territory via the Colonel May 30, 2009 at 12:35 PM; With Punto going on the DL and Casilla being called up it begs me to wonder... If Casilla continues his hot hitting and good defense from the minors have we found a formula for his success?Last year he sucked it up in the beginning of the year so he was sent down and then recalled and tore it up for the rest of the season. This year he was again sucking it up early and was sent down but has been h
Joe vs Joe from Joe: via Twins Territory via the Colonel May 12, 2009 at 08:53 PM; Ok Joe Crede, I know you've had a couple injuries in this young season and have missed a handful of games but I think you need to observe some statistical facts of someone who has your name too.Joe Mauer only has 10+ games under his belt and he already has matched you in home runs and surpassed you in runs batted in not to mention a wicked awesome batting average and defensive prowess. Now of cour
Alexi Casilla working his way off my ish list: via Twins Territory via the Colonel April 07, 2009 at 10:28 PM; After a disappointing season opener last night I didn't feel too good when I saw the Twins were down 1-4 tonight. I felt even worse when I pulled the game back up and the Twins were down 5-3 in the bottom of the 9th with 2 out.Then the Mariners walk the bases loaded.Then, Span gets an infield single to keep the rally alive.Then, Alexi Casilla steps up and I winced a bit, still not really trusting
2009 offensive starter Predicitons: via Twins Territory via the Colonel April 05, 2009 at 11:11 AM; Here's my predictions for all of the Twins offensive starters. The pitching, while not absolutely lights out, will keep the Twins in the game long enough for the following guys to put up a few "crooked numbers" and win a lot of games.CF - Carlos Gomez/Denard Span - Gomez will get the chance to prove himself as an every day CF and Span will be the guy who gives the guys in the outfield a rest, come
Nick Punto's one fear...: via Twins Territory via the Colonel April 01, 2009 at 10:39 PM; The cursed flying baseball bat!!!
Updates: via Twins Territory via the Colonel March 18, 2009 at 08:21 PM; Turns out Corey Koskie got a minor league deal with the Cubs. Hopefully things work out and he makes the team. Major League Baseball needs some Corey Koskie in it's life.Joe Mauer's kidney/back injury flaired up. I'm guessing he won't be behind the place opening day but we it's ok because he'll be back soon enough and in the mean time we have Red Dog!During a drive up to St Cloud to surprise a fri
Corkey Koskie is back?: via Twins Territory via the Colonel March 18, 2009 at 08:21 PM; I read an interesting tidbit after discovering Kelly Thesier's blog (MLB.com writer for the Twins). I found that Corey Koskie is at Twins spring training. Well, not technically but the Twins have allowed him to workout on one of the backfields as he trains to try and make Canada's WBC team.Here's my ultimate dream of how it would turn out... He makes the team, kicks butt and the Twins sign him and
Pitch and Catch: via Twins Territory via the Colonel March 18, 2009 at 08:21 PM; Though we're a ways away from being out of the woods of winter the day pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training always means that we're on the right side of winter.I was out and about all day so it was nice to come home and see that my ESPN Twins photo RSS feed was full of images from the first day of workouts.When one of the first pictures was of Red Dog I was reminded that Twins fans are