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There have been two times in my life when something has caught me so far off guard that I was unable to formulate a proper emotional response. The first time, I walked around in a daze for 48 hours after finding out that people found a way to collapse a skyscraper by flying jumbo jets into the sides of it. The second time occurred today when I was thoroughly shocked by the jarring news that

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Weekly Roundup What happens when the luck that brings about consecutive winning weeks despite sub-par performances abruptly runs out? How does an ugly sweep in Cleveland and a series split with Kansas City at home sound? The sadly funny part of the miserable week is that the Twins actually managed to score a few runs- not a lot, but about 4 per game instead of their customary 2- and still

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Weekly Roundup A week after one of the least inspiring 4-2 sets in recent memory, the Twins managed an equally mixed-bag 5-2 campaign, dropping two of three at home to the Mariners before rolling the pointless Orioles in a four game set. The week got off in an inauspicious start as Matt Garza and Scott Baker got shelled to the tune of 23 hits and 10 earned runs in two starts. The result was

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Any week where the Twins win two series by going 4-2 has to be considered a pretty good week, although this week made me consider what it would take to create an exception to that rule. For instance, the Twins took two out of three from Seattle, a solid team and a playoff contender, on the road for what should have been an impressive series win. On the other hand, the one loss was an eminently

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Weekly Roundup You’ve made your bed, Terry Ryan, now sleep in it. The Twins GM knew at the trade deadline that his moribund offense was going to struggle to keep up with the rest of the division, even as Cleveland and Detroit started sliding slowly backwards. He knew that ripping off a hot stretch on the field could get the team back in the race, at least enough to make the latter part of

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Weekly Roundup Taking all things into consideration, the Twins had an extremely eventful week. On the field, they went 4-2 without a single game being decided by more than two runs. They picked up enough ground on the division by taking a series from Cleveland that they superficially look like playoff contenders once again, but still face extremely long odds. Off of the field, they traded

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Over the last two seasons Justin Morneau has been one of the best run roducers in the American League with 62 HR and 219 RBI. What makes this fact more impressive is that on the surface he has been producing all those runs on a team who does not possess one of the elite AL offenses. It would seem intuitive to conclude that Morneau has to be more efficient in the opportunities that he gets,

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Weekly Roundup Haven’t we been here before? Last week, the Twins suffered a miserably disappointing sweep, followed by a pretty solid series where they took two out of three from a better team. This week, well, the Twins suffered a miserably disappointing sweep at the hands of the Blue Jays, and followed it up by taking two out of three from a better Cleveland team. According to the BP

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The common thread running through the Twins solid decade has been Torii Hunter more than anyone else. Terry Ryan and Ron Gardenhire have obviously been instrumental in putting together a competitive team despite a roster with a high rate of turnover. Until this year, Brad Radke was the elder statesman, playing through pain and leading by example on the pitching staff. Nonetheless, Hunter’s

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The Twins just completed a series in which they scored five runs in three games while being swept by the Blue Jays. In my searches for the Series Preview in Blog, I came across this article about the inconsistency of the Jays offense in comparison to some other teams. The Twins were one of the more inconsistent offenses mentioned in the study. The author doesn't delve into cause and effect

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Weekly Roundup Fork. In one way, the Twins stand at a fork in the road. Fox’s uber-rumor guru Ken Rosenthal jumped on the Adam Dunn to the Twins bandwagon yesterday, mostly because it makes a ton of sense if the team has an interest in building toward a possible post-season run. A fork in the road because the Twins have reopened the Johan Santana negotiations, reportedly with an

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A recent article in the Hardball Times plotted each of the American League teams with respect to their number of at bats with runners in scoring position (RISP) and their batting average in those situations. Inspection of the plot reveals a couple of things that are obvious and unsurprising:- Detroit and New York (two of the best team offenses in the AL) are outdistancing the rest of the league

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Weekly Roundup Four games, four quality starts, four close wins. That recipe yields success under just about any circumstances, and when the offense shows some limited signs of life at the same time, you end up with a sweep of a quality opponent. Even though the Twins outscored the A’s by a total of eight runs over four games, they pulled their home record from a disappointing 22-20 to a

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Check out the earlier post on strength of schedule for explanations of these numbers.First up is the AL Central:AL CentralMay RecordMay SOSExpected June SOSActual June SOSDifferenceJune RecordExpected July SOSChicago White Sox12-14.473.439.472-3310-18.524Cleveland Indians19-11.526.468.474-615-13.488Detroit Tigers16-12.547.496.514-1816-10.536Kansas City Royals11-17.543.504.511-715-12.524Minnesota

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Weekly Roundup For two games this week, the Twins averaged 16 runs. Over the course of the other six games of the week, they averaged 2.8 runs per game. Friday’s fireworks aside, the Twins squandered the opportunity to make real gains against some of their prime competitors over the last two weeks, leaving themselves right where they have been all season long. Tim Kurkjian and Orel

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SCOTT BAKER June 26 – July 3(2 GS, 0-1, 1.20 ERA, 15 IP, 7 H, 2 BB, 12 K)From the outset, 2007 was an important season for Scott Baker. He had spent portions of the last two years with the Twins (with varying degrees of success), and this season would go a long way toward determining the role Baker would play with the organization in the future. Coming into the 2007 season, he was one of many

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Weekly Roundup First order of business: for one week only, this column is not free. In order to gain access to the rest of the article, I’m requiring that you log onto mlb.com and vote for Pat Neshek in the All-Star Final Vote. You can vote for him because he is a Minnesota Twin, joining the rightly chosen Johan Santana, Torii Hunter and Justin Morneau on the roster, but there are better

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The word “left” comes from ‘lyft’ which means worthless in Old English. The left side of the Buddhist yin and yang symbol represents darkness. The German word linkisch means left, but can also be translated as awkward, clumsy, or socially inferior. Likewise, mancino means both left and dishonest in the Italian language. In a similar vein, the Latin word ‘sinister’ initially meant left, but

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Weekly Roundup The Twins did things a little differently this week, finding a way to take two road series from two solid National League opponents. Sure, they ran into Jorge Sosa and Josh Johnson at the right times, and nobody expects too many more one strikeout shutouts. Nonetheless, it is exceedingly difficult to trash a team that outscored its opponents 38-20 over the course of the week,

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A fantastic, albeit unusual game from staff ace Johan Santana paired with four Mets erros led the way for Twins to walk away with a big win in game two of their three game set with the NL East leaders.Santana pitched a complete game shutout, the second of the month for the Twins, the other being Carlos Silva's game against the Braves. The oddity in the game wasn't in Johan's dominance, thats

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Weekly Roundup Six games against two winning teams, all of them at home. In that situation, I feel like one could make the case for 4-2 being the low and high-end outcome for the week. As it went down, the week created about as many mixed feelings as possible, with the Twins cresting early on during their pitching-rich sweep of Atlanta, then tumbling to a lucky win after a blown lead to

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Here are the lines over their last four starts of two starting pitchers who recently faced the Twins.Starter 1: 14.1 IP, 23 R, 30 H, 8 SO, 7 BB, 14.44 ERA, .423 BAA, 1.045 OPSStarter 2: 26.1 IP, 5 R, 17 H, 15 SO, 9 BB, 1.71 ERA, .177 BAA, .533 OPSNow, here are the lines for those same two starters in their starts against the Twins.Starter 1: 6 IP, 1 R, 2 H, BB, 3 SOStarter 2: 7 IP, 6 R, 7

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Weekly Roundup Let’s face it, right now the Twins do not look anything like a playoff team. That’s not to say that they cannot reverse course and make a run in the second half like they did last year, but as the roster presently stands, the postseason does not seem like an attainable goal. On offense, there are four solid run producers, two at premium, up the middle positions (Mauer and Hunter

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The month of May was a tale of two different teams for the Twins. They began the month by losing their first 5 series to Tampa Bay, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland. But this was followed by winning their final 4 series of the month against Milwaukee, Toronto, Texas, and Chicago. Of the teams that the Twins played in May, only the Devil Rays and Rangers entered the month with records under

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Weekly Roundup The Twins started the week by sweeping the rival Chicago White Sox behind bats that were alive enough to pique the interest of Ozzy Osborne’s personal chef. That fourth straight series win made it looked like the Twins were poised for a strong start on the West Coast against the depleted Athletics, but those bats that carried them through the divisional series were nowhere to

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With the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft on the horizon, this is the second of two articles looking at the Twins' most recent drafts. The first part looked at the first round picks of the last fifteen years and how they are faring (or have fared) in professional baseball. This week I will look at the Twins minor leagues and how the draft has been used to stock the Twins system.In the last

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I could complain. I could point out that the Twins once again struggled at times to drive in runners in scoring position as I've stated all year. They weren't terrible, going 5-14, but especially in the later innings missed out on multiple looks with the bases loaded. Nick Punto in particular choked, going 0-3 with runners in scoring position.That said, the Twins still drubbed the White Sux 9-2,

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-25330344579930597582007-05-28T22:02:00.000-05:002007-05-28T22:45:52.134-05:00

Another night, another dominant performance by... Jason Miller? You didn't see that coming did you? That's just how I roll.Ahh the joys of winning. It's been quite some time (about 5 weeks) since the Twins have legitimately been going in the right direction, but after taking series wins from the Brewers, Rangers, and Blue Jays and taking game 1 from the White Sox, I think it can be legitimately

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Weekly Roundup I could hardly be happier. On the heels of a week where the Twins actually finished with a winning record, taking two out of three from a pair of craptastic opponents, I wake up on a sunny holiday Monday to this bombshell from the Strib: “The Twins haven't officially announced anything, but all indications are that righthander Ramon Ortiz, who has a 10.97 ERA this month,

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Looking for their third series win in as many series, and after a night spent scalding the ball almost all game long when they pumped out 17 hits and about 10 hard hit outs, the Twins bats couldn't put much of anything together against Jays "ace" A.J. Burnett. I say ace because with with Roy Halladay on the shelf for a few more days, Burnett was the best the jays had and he came in on a roll. He

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Oh what a night. In a season full of close calls and inability to capitalize in crucial situations the Twins finally put together a game worth remembering, a game that could have sparked a team big winning streaks. Regretfully to say it ended the wrong way.The contest began innocently enough with each team pushing a few runs across in the early innings and the sixth inning began 3-2 in the jays

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Hitting a baseball is about timing. Mastering that timing requires a batter to find a balance between patiently waiting for the right pitch and being aggressive enough to hit the right pitch when it comes. Effective management necessitates a similar skill set of knowing precisely how long to wait before pouncing. In Moneyball, Billy Beane extols the virtues of appropriate managerial patience

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With the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft on the horizon, this is the first of two articles looking at the Twins' most recent drafts. This part looks at the first round picks of the last fifteen years and how they are faring (or have fared) in professional baseball. Next week I will look at the Twins minor leagues and how the draft has been used to stock the Twins system.In the last 15 years

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One night after Ramon Ortiz got pounded Carlos Silva thought he'd try to one up his rotation mate. He succeeded. While Ortiz went 4 1/3 allowing 5 runs, Silva managed to cover the same distance and allow seven runs. Quite the triumph of ineptitude I must say. The difference between tonight and last night was that Silva's replacement wasn't the solid Matt Guerrier, it was AAA callup Julio DePaula

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Weekly Roundup A second straight week looked like it was going to be utterly disastrous before the team got enough of a rebound over the weekend to let fans exhale, albeit just a little bit. Going 2-4 and looking absolutely miserable in getting swept by Cleveland (outscored 24-8) is a pretty ominous start to the week. Taking a series against a division leader and nominal rival on the road

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As I lounged about this weekend, an urgent message suddenly appeared in my inbox from the headquarters of the Minnesota Sports Guys conglomerate. I was chosen to attend a Twins game this weekend at Miller Park. Despite the fact that Ramon Ortiz would be pitching, and that I would be wading into hostile territory with which I was not familiar (my first visit to Miller Park), I felt duty-bound to

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Last night I began to write an article about how the Twins offense was bound to improve from it's performance so far this season. My justification was the same one I had used earlier in the season, when I pointed out that the team had the most at-bats of any team in baseball with runners in scoring position but was batting a full 30 points worse in that situation than their season average. I

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After a brutal series against AL Central leading Cleveland, the Twins traveled to Milwaukee to face the NL Central leading Brewers. And for at least one game, all the pieces came together. The bats, while not on fire, got the clutch hits, and a pitcher not named Santana rose up and dominated, never letting the opposition get going.I'll begin with the pitching, as it is what I was most impressed

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Two more games, two more embarrassing efforts from the Twins offense and the Twins have now lost all five games they've played against the Cleveland Indians. I would argue that last nights game was rather expected as C.C. Sabathia has always been a notorious Twins killer and the Twins haven't hit a lefthander hard all year, but this afternoons complete game shutout at the hands of Raphael Carmona

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A season that looked like another difficult reclamation project became an altogether wasted season this week when Jesse Crain’s shoulder diagnosis turned up a double negative: torn rotator cuff and torn labrum. Crain’s recovery from the injury will likely take us far enough into the future that any projection is more speculation than comprehension. Add to that uncertainty the immense

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One game after getting the bats going against the Tigers, the hot hitting continued for the Twins as they scored 6 or more runs in consecutive games for only the second time this season, the other bring April 20th and 21st against the Royals. The Twins also hit four homeruns again, and while I haven't checked, I can say with relative certainty that this may have been the first time this season

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Forgive me please, its been a very long, busy weekend. Friday was my brothers birthday and the sports gals, pre-commencement meeting with the faculty. Saturday was the sports gals graduation, and my fathers birthday. Sunday was mothers day. It was, all-in-all, an impossible weekend leaving me ZERO time to write or maintain the site. That said, on to some much needed/wanted Twins coverage.Friday:

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Weekly Roundup Last week, I closed by tempering expectations for a six-game set against two solid AL Central opponents. I commented that it is not such a bad week to be cold, since these games will be difficult no matter what, and a couple of good wins could help jumpstart the team’s collective momentum generator, seemingly still puttering out black smoke from last year’s winterization. In

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Perhaps I'm alone, perhaps not, but my level of cynicism towards this teams offense seems to have plateaued. The first two weeks of this season were quite encouraging as the team was receiving good starting pitching and putting together enough runs to win ball games. But since then it's been a continuous downward spiral and the offense still hasn't seemed to have hit bottom yet. I started off as

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Another day, another dismal performance from the Twins offense. One night after getting no-hit by John Danks for four innings they were shut out by Jose Contreras in a five hit performance. Predictably the only hitter Twins hitter to figure out Contreras was Jason Kubel who couldn't make contact with a ball either of the last two games, striking out in pathetic fashion in three consecutive clutch

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Fresh off a dramatic come from behind 7-4 victory last night the Twins surely were riding an emotional high. Regretfully to say those emotions didn't translate into early hits as once again the team fell behind on a very average pitcher in John Danks. Danks came into tonights contest with a 0-4 record and a 5.02 ERA but held the hapless Twins hitless until the fifth when Michael Cuddyer singled

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-61203562675784185712007-05-09T08:00:00.000-05:002007-05-11T10:56:13.553-05:00

This is a little bit less than some of the previous posts here, it has been a ridiculously busy week. Hopefully, we'll be back to full length stuff next week. Thanks for reading!Torii Hunter brought a 21-game hitting streak into last night's game against the White Sox. Javier Vasquez kept him hitless through his first three at-bats, but he extended the streak to 22 with his game-tying RBI

Ray Felix, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579656540833115909noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-34134397965821055192007-05-08T19:00:00.000-05:002007-05-09T12:31:35.779-05:00

Anyone who reads this site knows that I've been ragging on Morneau hard these past couple weeks but my goodness did he ever break out tonight. Big Time. I think its fair to say it... Edmonton, we have lift off... I couldn't be happier for Morneau, he really deserved to have a big, "In your face!" game with all the trash I've given him. Hopefully he can feed off this and really get his stick going

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-72995635641455398132007-05-06T20:33:00.000-05:002007-05-07T01:23:35.561-05:00

I'd like to begin my recap of today's game by saying I was thrilled to hear Van Halen's "Right Now." For those of you who don't know it's the song that was played last year immediately before the Twins took the field and it's also one of my favorite songs. Until today I hadn't heard the team play it even once and hopefully it's back to stay. Now on to the real news...The impostor occupying Justin

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-45865195292453190882007-05-06T18:55:00.000-05:002007-05-06T18:57:47.362-05:00

Weekly Roundup It would be very easy for me to fill up 1200 words by talking about the ins, outs, and what-have-yous of the Joe Mauer conundrum. Instead, I will try to be concise and get it out of the way as quickly as possible. First of all, a strained quad can happen in many different ways, but one of the ways near the top of the list is compensating for a sore knee. I will not put it

omgtehnewsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-4533185342506803892007-05-05T18:51:00.000-05:002007-05-05T21:31:26.996-05:00

My poor finger nails...Whenever Johan Santana takes the mound Twins fans immediately feel more comfortable. Thats what happens when a guy is undoubtedly the most dominant pitcher in baseball. And for a guy who's been notorious as a slow starter early in the season he's been quite good this year, though he's far from being as dominant as he can be. Coming off three straight losses the Twins needed

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-69689684567153638772007-05-03T19:58:00.000-05:002007-05-03T20:30:17.218-05:00

For the second time this season the Twins have allowed promising starts to road trips to fall apart. On the last road trip against Seattle and Kansas City it was the sweep of the Mariners followed by a series loss to the Royals. This week its a 2-1 series victory over division rival Detroit followed by a series loss to the pathetic Devil Rays. But the one thing both series' have in common is that

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-72299826660898406202007-05-02T08:00:00.000-05:002007-05-02T14:49:26.030-05:00

With an off day on Monday coinciding with the end of April, plenty of Twins bloggers took the opportunity to recap the season so far. Given their excellent work, and the ongoing This Week in Twins feature written by Andrew Berg here at MNSG (which is always worth the read), I won't throw my hat in that ring, but rather we're going to take a more focused look at one aspect of the Twins ballclub,

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After a day off the Twins traveled down to Tampa Bay for a series with the Devil Rays. Taking the ball for the Twins in the first contest was Sidney Ponson who had started the year 1-3 with a 8.44 ERA and was desperately in need of a good start to save his spot in the rotation, especially with essentially every one of the Twins top pitching prospects throwing well in Rochester.Mission

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-900159379603886162007-05-01T12:46:00.000-05:002007-05-01T13:24:36.605-05:00

In reading Nick Nelson's Twins Month in Review I saw that he highlighted Jeff Manship, a 14th round draft pick of the Twins in the 2006 draft. Manship has posted some excellent April numbers for the Low-A Beloit Snappers and I thought it would be a good idea to let Twins fans know a bit about him. If you're interested you can check out his stats here.Manship is a 6 foot, 195 pound, 22 year old

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The Twins came to Comerica Park last night looking to secure a series sweep against AL central rival Detroit, and with Johan Santana on taking the mound the odds we're clearly in their favor. However for the third straight game the Twins failed to provide Johan with adequate run support, falling short against yet another "junk-throwing-lefty."For his part Johan was far from his dominant self,

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-16097659082930417932007-04-29T20:28:00.000-05:002007-04-29T20:29:40.165-05:00

Weekly RoundupA 3-4 record and a run differential of 29 scored against 26 allowed seems innocuous enough, a seemingly middling and boring week that will be forgettable by the end of the year. The broad strokes do not describe the full picture, though, as the team went from ice cold to red hot over just a few days, then gave it all back with a depressing loss behind Johan Santana. If there was a

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Man did the Twins need this. It's not just the win, but this sort of win has got to do a lot to lift up what must have been a demure locker-room.For the second night in a row the Twins rose to meet the level of play of their opponents. While the team spent the past two nights struggling to produce against a weak Royals team, they have now risen to the occasion against pitchers such as Joel Zumaya

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-71593644059399364892007-04-27T22:27:00.000-05:002007-04-28T05:47:23.452-05:00

It seems like its been a long time since I've been able to write a recap about a win, and thats mostly because it has been. The Twins have gone almost a full week without a win and it's been an emotional drain at my household watching as our beloved Twins lose close game after close game because of an inept offense that has been terrible at getting runners on base via hit or walk, and has failed

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-54054751621752520782007-04-25T11:09:00.000-05:002007-04-25T12:08:41.454-05:00

Its been a rough week for the Minnesota Twins. Besides dropping four of their last four games, despite being in nearly all of those games, they've been hit with injuries to Luis Castillo and have been mired in a major hitting slump. Last night I mentioned that the Twins hitters not named Mauer had hit only .146 over the past two games. Tonight was more of the same. While the Twins did hit .250

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-282392186102490352007-04-25T06:59:00.000-05:002007-04-25T07:19:27.769-05:00

(NOTE: This article was written before the conclusion of Tuesday night's game, thus, all stats are current through Monday 4/23)What follows is an analysis of Jason Bartlett's first 56 plate appearances of 2007 divided into "bad" and "good" periods. I recognize that the season is young and it's a small sample size, but the idea is to catalyze some thought and possibly some debate. Enjoy! and

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After a full night to sleep on last nights event's, I must admit that, while disappointed, I feel much better. A few notes from around Twins land...- Last season, Torii Hunter made a promise to buy the Royals Dom Perignon if they swept the Tigers allowing the Twins to win the division... (Taken from an ESPN report, Full Story) rule 21-b, which proclaims "Any player or person connected with a Club

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To say I'm furious would be an extreme understatement. I'm not angry about the loss tonight nearly as much as I am about the manner in which we lost, the poor decisions that were made, both by players and by Gardenhire. That and what may have been the worst strike-zone I've seen from a major league umpire in a long, long time.I'm too angry to really write well so, I'm just going to start listing

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-40185443727802044232007-04-23T06:47:00.000-05:002007-04-23T06:53:50.592-05:00

Welcome to the debut edition of "This Week in Twins," or TWIT. I'm your author, Andrew Berg, and from this point forward, you can anticipate a weekly wrap-up of where the Twins have been and where they are going. Also, I will do my best to keep week-t0-week developments in the context of the bigger picture and how they implicate Minnesota's chances of the postseason. If another big story

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MLB.com Recaps and boxscoreComing into tonights contest between the Twins and Royals my main concern, as I stated towards the end of last nights recap, was for a letdown from Ramon Ortiz. To a certain extent I was right, as he probably had his worst outing of the season, though seven innings and three runs is certainly far from bad. The one thing I didn't anticipate was such a precipitous decline

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-16583947363267161312007-04-21T17:32:00.000-05:002007-04-22T12:23:52.362-05:00

I'd first like to apologize for not having last evenings recap, I have no real good excuse other than being disgusted by the pitching of---everyone, and I decided to spend the night with my sports gal. That said, on to todays action.This afternoon Boof Bonser made his fourth start of the season against the Royals. Last year Bonser made three starts against them and they didn't go as smoothly as

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-12363619693849119852007-04-19T19:29:00.000-05:002007-04-19T20:28:50.059-05:00

After six innings of frustration and in danger of spoiling another good outing from their starting pitching the Twins finally broke through against Jarrod Washburn and Julio Mateo in the seventh, roughing up the Mariners pitchers for five runs. The inning started on two first pitch bunt singles by Jason Bartlett and Alexi Casilla who had entered the game in the fifth replacing Luis Castillo who

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Just this week new MNSG writer Ray Felix did a fantastic write up of Carlos Silva's early season success and gave his rationale. Tonight Carlos Silva took the mound looking for his third win of the season just like Ramon Ortiz did last night. Once again he was near brilliant for much of the game going 6 1/3 innings while allowing 3 runs on 8 hits. The damage was done in the sixth when the

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Booyah. I've said it before and I'll say it again but these are the types of posts I love to write and I know you love to read.Tonight the Twins began a three game set against the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field. Taking the mound in the first game was Ramon Ortiz. In his first two starts of the season Ortiz turned a lot of heads as he not only started the season without getting shelled, he shut

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-91816421802809686252007-04-17T07:15:00.000-05:002007-04-17T07:21:14.428-05:00

Hmmm....This is different, I kind of like it here.Oh, hi there, I didn't see you come in. I'm Ray, and Corey has recently enlisted me to write some articles here at MNSG-Twins. This is the first of (hopefully) many of those articles, looking at Carlos Silva's first two starts. If you're interested in my other writing, check out my own blog, Daneeka's Ghost. Thanks for reading, I hope you

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I am pleased as a pooch. Coming into tonight's game the Twins certainly had to feel as though they had a lot to learn about their team. This far this season the team has done a poor job of getting runners on base and an even worse job of plating the runners they do get. After getting hit hard in his Twins debt against the Yankees Sidney Ponson also had a lot to prove. He got off to a rough start

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-9031455323471082712007-04-13T23:40:00.000-05:002007-04-14T01:01:35.416-05:00

Boxscore 4/13/2007 Twins 2 - Devil Rays 4With Johan Santana taking to the mound this evening I thought the Twins would be able to take away a win, even against a tough lefty in Scott Kazmir. Thats mostly because the Twins hadn't lost a game in the Dome that he started in his last 24 attempts. Santana pitched well enough to win as he went seven innings allowing six hits, one walk, and striking out

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-39173350046252969952007-04-12T20:30:00.000-05:002007-04-13T00:56:14.260-05:00

Boxscore 4/12/2007 Twins 3, Devil Rays 2What an emotional roller-coaster of a game, this one had it all.You can say a lot of things about Carlos Silva: you can mention his ghastly 2006 season where he registered a 5.94 ERA while allowing 246 hits in 180 innings, or his 11.06 ERA coming out of spring training this season. The truth is the man hasn't been right since his 2005 campaign where he

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-87203911130999301822007-04-12T11:32:00.000-05:002007-04-12T19:09:15.873-05:00

The Twins began this year by disappointing a large number of fans with some of their roster moves, like deciding to keep Silva in the starting rotation instead of giving Garza another chance. Also disappointing to people were that players like Kevin Slowey, Glen Perkins didn't get a chance with the club. The Twins explained that they had confidence in the veterans even as Silva's ERA ballooned

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-81132574409704248222007-04-11T21:05:00.000-05:002007-04-12T11:31:23.454-05:00

Boxscore-4/11/2007 Twins 5, Yankees 1I came into this game essentially resigned to the belief that the Twins were going to face down Tampa Bay with a 4-4 record. I justified my pessimism with the "knowledge" that Ortiz, a fly ball pitcher would get slaughtered worse than either Sidney Ponson or Boof Bonser. Even if Ortiz did have a good game (ie: less than 5 runs in 7 innings) the anemic Twins

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-59196059070539239932007-04-10T23:44:00.000-05:002007-04-11T01:25:05.053-05:00

One night after Sir Sidney got severely served, Boof Bonser got Bronx bombed. I came into this game feeling decidedly non-optimistic and my worst fears were quickly realized as the Yankees put up 3 runs in the first inning, two of which came on Alex Rodriguez's monstrous homerun to left. Thankfully to say I got to attend the game with fellow MNSG writer and good friend Mike Pahl who contributes

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-86102859527854850512007-04-08T22:30:00.000-05:002007-04-09T00:17:27.539-05:00

Boxscore-April 8, Twins 3, White Sox 1On a day spent by many wishing, "happy Easter," to friends and family, Johan Santana was wishing the entire state of Minnesota a happy Easter. In doing so he ruined the White Sox day as he allowed just one hit, a blip to Michael Cuddyer in right field by Joe Crede in the second inning. However, despite the impressive final line Santana did struggle in the

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-55827112465450889572007-04-04T18:53:00.000-05:002007-04-04T23:37:18.957-05:00

I think I'm obligated to be a Ramon Ortiz fan if for no other reason than he has ears that stick out almost as much as mine.Oh yeah, those are the real deal.Ramon Ortiz's first game for the Twins was a gem. Coming into the game there were a lot of skeptical fans who were concerned that Ortiz was a disaster waiting to happen. Well, for at least one game, disaster has been averted. Ortiz pitched

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-2406198997232753802007-04-04T17:00:00.000-05:002007-04-04T18:44:29.537-05:00

1) Though I could find at least 10,000 Twins fans who would contest the point (and with a degree of validity) JD Durbin made Terry Ryan once again look like maybe, just maybe, he knows what he's doing. Taking in the D-Backs, Rockies game this afternoon I couldn't help but be shocked to see the D-Backs turn to Durbin down two runs in the eighth. Durbin got Steve Finley to ground out to start the

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-43703066531296716132007-04-03T22:53:00.001-05:002007-04-04T00:50:29.921-05:00

On night where the Metrodome proved its worth the Twins played some classic Minnesota baseball. The game also featured a cool occurence for me as I had the sincere pleasure of meeting and taking in a game with Nick Nelson of 'Nick and Nick's', he's great individual and every bit as knowledgeable a fan of the game as he seems in his writing.Boof Bonser proved why the Twins made him their number

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-7312741028192305782007-04-02T18:39:00.000-05:002007-04-03T11:29:33.534-05:00

Game 1; Orioles vs Twins BoxscoreOpening night is here and I'm absolutely stoked. Game notes.-1st Pitch, Brad Radke for his final strike one. Ironically its one of the first early game pitches he's thrown in his life that wasn't hit for a home run.-1st Orioles hitter. Johan Santana strike-out.-Joe Mauer's 1st At-Bat, first pitch fastball away, single. On a personal note, I was sitting there

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-84103958690433422002007-04-02T08:41:00.000-05:002007-04-02T09:40:07.117-05:00

When you ask most people what their favorite day of the year is, I'm sure most will mention a religious holiday, Christmas for example would garner many votes. I'm sure thanksgiving would make off fairly well too. People will tell you how much they enjoy being in the company of their family and with people they love and care about. But for a baseball fan, today is certainly better. Today in fact

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-34942753623035824882007-03-31T14:58:00.000-05:002007-03-31T15:38:02.972-05:00

The Twins played their last pre-season game of the season and made sure it ended on a good note with a 6-4 win over the Pirates. The game was important for a number of reasons. First off the game saw the return to major league action of both catcher Joe Mauer and third baseman Nick Punto. Mauer and Punto who have both had poor pre-seasons at the plate combined to go 1-5 at the plate with Batting

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-42662013668324473102007-03-31T12:47:00.000-05:002007-03-31T15:39:18.942-05:00

Preface;With the conclusion of the most important issue of the pre-season, the Twins starting rotation, having been decided its time to move on to other important issues. Today I'll be covering Denard Span, the Twins center fielder of the future. It's widely known that the man Denard will have to replace, Twins legend Torii Hunter, is in the final year of his contact and that the Twins will

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-29490730748227017202007-03-30T18:03:00.000-05:002007-03-30T18:42:17.264-05:00

Twins-Pirates Boxscore 3/30/2007The Twins traveled to Bradenton to take on the Buccaneers and Ramon Ortiz who Gardenhire announced will be the Twins #3 pitcher got the starting nod. Ortiz, who was ruffed up a bit in his last outing after an otherwise stellar pre-season came into the game sporting a 3.86 ERA and pitched even better than that going four innings while giving up only one single.

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-34865319591885494852007-03-29T23:36:00.000-05:002007-03-30T11:43:34.722-05:00

Twins-Reds Boxscore 3/29/2007This is the type of Twins recap I absolutely love doing. The kind where I get to brag about how our boys whipped the stuffing out of yours, heck even Silva pitched like he did when he knew how to pitch. Having said that, lets get down to breakin' it down.The Reds played host to the Twins Thursday night at their facility in Sarasota. Carlos Silva, fresh off securing

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-49855161137036255182007-03-29T16:04:00.000-05:002007-03-29T20:49:14.802-05:00

Its early and unsubstantiated, but the whispers out of Twins camp are that JD Durbin's time with the Twins may be done as the Twins will designate him for assignment, placing him on outright waivers, deciding rather to carry Chris Hientz as a third catcher. If this proves to be true, then the most likely scenario would have Durbin refusing assignment and immediately becoming a free agent (I

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-28119599145425455692007-03-29T12:02:00.000-05:002007-03-29T12:18:46.594-05:00

Ok, I should preface this by telling anyone who doesn't already know that Im a pretty big Ron Gardenhire guy. I think he runs a bullpen better than any manager in the game and players really seem to like his approach. That said...I read this quote today in an article I found on SI.com that was reported from the AP. "We've been thinking about it over and over again, trying to decide what's best

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-81943104154679871202007-03-29T10:14:00.000-05:002007-03-29T13:59:31.424-05:00

Twins-Red Sox Boxscore 3/28/2007The Twins hosted the Red Sox last night in what was to be Johan Santana's final start of the year. regretfully to say things didn't go entirely smoothly as the Twins ace gave up four runs, all earned over five innings surrendering eight hits and two walks while striking out six against what is most likely to be the Sox starting lineup in the regular season.''You

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-80775396973239252572007-03-28T17:59:00.000-05:002007-03-28T18:32:22.034-05:00

As has been speculated for much of spring training Twins super-stud-prospect Matt Garza will begin the season with Rochester. However Twins fans can expect to see him up no later than mid-May once the Twins have delayed his arbitration eligibility by one more year, and even earlier if Carlos Silva struggles early. In other words, we'll see him again in a few weeks.The roster is now down to 28

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-89569998231488794842007-03-28T10:19:00.000-05:002007-03-28T22:45:30.801-05:00

As Mr. Mosvick pointed out over at Nick and Nick's earlier today, the Twins as an organization really seems to be at odds over what they'll do with their final two rosters spots. His piece does a great job of analyzing the battle and prognosticating the outcome, and for the most part I couldn't agree more. The one thing that got me thinking was his very last line where he laments the knowledge

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-60826482238690785852007-03-27T19:25:00.000-05:002007-03-28T10:18:22.184-05:00

Box Score and recap from MLB.comMaking his final start of the spring Boof Bonser made an emphatic final statement for his qualifications for making this rotation. While Twins manager Ron Gardenhire has officially refused to announce his rotation for 2007, it has been widely considered by those in the know that, barring some monumentally bad performances, and a couple outstanding ones, the Twins

Corey Ettingernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456606696523127242.post-83811646554828601002007-03-27T02:34:00.000-05:002007-03-27T11:53:49.126-05:00

The Twins entered spring training this year with few question marks. A club that last year discovered a consistent and talented lineup paired itself with arguably of the finest bullpens of the last many years, and continued to play above average defense, and for the most part, had consistent starting pitching. To be certain the Twins had to patch things together a bit in the rotation as, Brad

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