I am amazingly not excited to go out of town tomorrow, if only because the trade deadline is tomorrow and I want to be able to refresh MLB Trade Rumors 1,000 times. But such is life. Time for the weekend edition of the stuff you should be reading:
If you want to read about tennis. Go [...]

Indians lefty Cliff Lee just got traded to the Phillies along with OF Ben Fransisco  for Jason Knapp, Carlos Carrasco, Jason Donald and Lou Marson. Back when I explored some potential Twins deals, I mentioned that I would break down any deals involving the Twins. Since the Twins see the Indians quite a bit in [...]

…through 2.1 innings.
The jinx is in full effect!

I really felt like Al Michaels in 1980 last night after watching the Twins beat the White Sox. Glen Perkins on the hill, against John Danks? Clearly we had no shot.
But, Perkins hasn’t been terrible this year. It’s true that his stuff is below average. His fastball travels just under 90 mph on average, and [...]

When Glen Perkins takes the hill tonight, he’ll be trying to avoid having an outing like he did against Oakland, when he got basically murdered. Oddly enough, his pitches weren’t moving all that differently in that outing than they were normally:
There was more separation in movement between his fastball and his changeup than usual, but [...]

Is Glen Perkins available for trade? And for Jarrod Washburn? (Please let the answers be yes and no) [Seth Speaks]
Talk about bringing up Danny Valencia and a review of some hyped Twins callups over the last few seasons [Twins Geek]
Defending Bob Bradley [MLS Talk]
Something about someone in Chicago. [Babes Love Baseball]
The Twins trading for Orlando [...]

When we think of the best position for the Twins, we automatically think catcher, right? And when we think worst, our 2B struggles certainly come to mind. In fact, our 2B production has been the worst in the league so far this year, as shown on Beyond The Boxscore. Reading that post gave me the [...]

We’re just nine days away from the 2009 non-waiver trade deadline and the Twins, like most teams, have some holes to fill. They need to make some moves to address the team both now and for the future. I may or may not dabble into Beyond the Boxscore’s trade value calculator in this post. Ah [...]