I’m so mad at myself that I didn’t have this blog going during the draft, because it seriously is my favorite day of the baseball calendar. The best way to build your team is through the draft, and it always excites me to see who the Twins settle on.
First round pick Kyle Gibson probably won’t [...]

Just last week I called Francisco Liriano’s career over. Today, he shut me the hell up:

Look at all those glorious pitches in the bottom of the strike zone. Liriano threw 97 pitches. His 91st pitch was a shade over 94 mph, and his slider averaged 87 mph and he threw 33 of them. If the [...]

Once again, I’m heading out of town, so here are your weekend links.
Aaron Hicks’ stats in Single A Beloit (MiLB)
Hall of Fame Class of 09 preview/tribute (Souvenir City)
An MMA Post I can understand (BBB)
Verbally fellating Danny Valencia (Nick’s Twins Blog)
A look at the pitching staff (Twinkie Talk)
Michael Cuddyer might play second base? I’ll believe it [...]

A couple, well quite frankly dumb, twitter posts have prompted me to dive a little deeper into what our best outfield is. I have a decent sense of it in my head, but I want to see if the numbers bear it out.
First, offensively: Last year Denard Span came out of nowhere to post a [...]

Francisco Liriano really struggled with his control tonight. Without even typing up his stats, you can tell he just didn’t have it. Sadly, if you go through his pitch f/x archives you see a lot of this. His changeup doesn’t even matter anymore, and since the surgery he lost that great slider. No control, not [...]

First off, I’d just like to apologize to the vest uniforms. You are still ugly as all hell, but wouldn’t you know it, the Twins have their best winning percentage in those monstrosities.
Here’s The Breakdown:
Home Whites: 8-6 record, 76 runs scored, 70 runs allowed, +6 differential
Road Grays: 8-14 record, 67 runs scored, 90 runs allowed, [...]

Over at Twinkie Town, Jesse puts up a good article wondering if the Twins could get the 2B of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Freddy Sanchez. Since I’m not at all above letting other people do my work for me, let’s take a look at acquiring Sanchez, and who else the Twins could get.
Assuming that the acquisition [...]

I’ll be out of town all weekend, with no access to a computer or the internet, so rather than disappoint (all 10 of) my readers, I decided I’d link to some stuff that other people have written. People doing the work for me is a beautiful thing.
Ron Gardenhire is kind of dumb, but more relevant [...]