The Twins finished the week with a 4-2 record.
Scott Baker pitched on Friday against Tampa Bay and finally had a good start.  In 6.0 IP he allowed 5 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 HR and struck out 2.
Francisco Liriano pitched on Saturday against Boston.  He threw 3.0 innings while allowing 4 hits, 7 earned [...]

A little math to start off: fantasy baseball draft Saturday plus building a fence Sunday equals my reaction to the following move on Monday.
Saturday the Twins announced that they have traded RHP-Charles Nolte to the New York Yankees.  In return for Nolte, the Twins get to hang on to Rule 5 pick RHP-Jason Jones.
Jason Jones [...]

Today the Twins optioned OF-Jason Pridie to AAA Rochester, and reassigned LHP-Sean Henn, RHP-Bobby Keppel, 1B-Brock Peterson, and OF-David Winfree to minor league camp.
Jason Pridie (10/9/83) BA: NR / SS: #31
Pridie is the “other guy” the Twins got in the deal that sent Garza, Bartlett, and Eduardo Morlan to Tampa bay for Delmon Young and [...]

Tomorrow I have my fantasy baseball draft and I can’t wait.Our league is a 14 team, head to head keeper league which is heading into its 11th season.  Our scoring categories are: BA, R, 2B, HR, RBI, SB, OBP and SLG for hitters.  For pitchers we use W, L, QS, CG, SV, ERA, WHIP and [...]

Last night I was on Seth Stohs’ weekly Minnesota Twins Podcast (3/24 edition).  He had me on about 15 minutes into the show, but i recommend you listen from the beginnning.  On before me was Twins minor leaguer Zach Ward.  You can listen to it here.
In addition to the weekly podcast, you can read Seth’s work online here.  He [...]

The Twins finished the week with a 3-3 record.
Scott Baker pitched on Tuesday against Boston and Sunday against Toronto.  In his 2 starts combined he pitched 7.2 innings while allowing 16 hits, 8 runs, 1 walk and struck out 7.  He has now had three rough starts in a row.
Francisco Liriano pitched on Wednesday against [...]

On Friday, the Twins optioned C-Wilson Ramos to AA New Britain and reassigned LHP-Mike Gosling and RHP-Kevin Mulvey to minor league camp.
Wilson Ramos (8/10/87)  BA: #3 / SS: #5
Signed out of Venezuela in July of 2004, the 21 year old Ramos is the heir apparent to Joe Mauer at catcher.  Last season at Hi-A Fort [...]

Michael Cuddyer was drafted by the Twins in the 1st round of the 1997 draft.  He was the 9th player taken overall out of Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake, Virginia.  Aside from his 2006 season when he hit .284/.362/.504, Cuddyer’s claim to fame was playing on a team with David Wright, BJ Upton, Justin [...]