More photos » by Bruce Bisping - AP Fans waited in line for hours at the annual Run Your Fingers Through Anthony Lapanta's Thick, Luxurious Hair Charity Event. Proceeds go to the Twins Community Fund and Roy Smalley's pomade expenses. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Bruce Bisping) Browse more photos » Item: Buster Olney thinks Joe Mauer 's contract negotiations might be the most important story...
Nats pass on Kearns' option - nationals.com RF Austin Kearns' Washington career appears to be over. THe Nationals declined to pick up the 2010 option on his contract, buying him out for $1 million instead of paying him to play for $10 million. It is obviously the right decisions because Kearns can no longer hit. Kearns arrived with Felipe Lopez in a 2006 trade with the Cincinnati Reds for relievers...
More photos » by Lori Shepler - AP Browse more photos » In early 2007, when then-DC GM Jim Bowden signed right fielder Austin Kearns to a 3-year/$17.5 million dollar deal with a $10 million dollar club option for a fourth year or a $1 million dollar buyout, Kearns told Washington Post writer Barry Svrluga , as quoted in an 2/2/07 article entitled, "Kearns to Have an Extended Stay With...
Are there really any surprises? We'll throw in some other candidates who, while not technically non-tender candates, are still players whose rosters spots are in doubt. G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB CS AVG OBP SLG 2009 - Brendan Harris 123 414 44 108 22 1 6 37 29 78 0 2 .261 .310 .362 Brendan's offensive projections coming into 2009 weren't unreasonable. In fact, five of the more popular oracles all...
Link-O-Rama As a follow-up to last week's entry about the Twins signing 16-year-old phenom Miguel Angel Sano , here's a very interesting video detailing his life in the Dominican Republic and the signing process. My initial plan for Halloween was to go as a fat baseball writer who doesn't like to leave the house, but that seems awfully ambitious and this costume may be even better in a "you are...
More photos » by J Pat Carter - AP Browse more photos » And, when can it be done by a financially conscious club? Answer: When there are no entrenched players with big contracts. Which is exactly the position the Twins find themselves in this year, Almost two years ago to the day I talked about how this club would go about replacing Torii Hunter . It wasn't realistic to think that the organization...
More photos » by David J. Phillip - AP Browse more photos » Stop me if you've heard this off-season story before...the Twins have an opening at second base. When the Twins traded Luis Castillo at the 2007 trade deadline, it was seen as a curious but defendable action. Since then second base has been a carousel of mediocrity, with Minnesota starting Nick Punto , Alexi Casilla and Luis Rodriguez...
The following is featured in the TwinsCentric Offseason GM Handbook, and you can check out that document in order to see how I came up with the payroll figures and to read more about some of the names listed. But I thought I'd post this here to rev up the conversation about potential moves for the Twins this offseason. Agree? Disagree? What would you do? *** 1) Let free agents Orlando Cabrera, Ron...
Brendan Harris' groundout to end Minnesota's American League Divisional Series with New York started a 171-day clock until the christening of the Twins' new ballpark, Target Field. Sony's MLB The...
There’s been a lot of discussion of late about whether or not the Cards should resign Matt Holliday , who they should pursue should the fail to resign him, and whether or not Hal McRae should return as the Cards’ hitting coach next year. Someone ought to, at some point, study the impact that hitting coaches have on an offense, to the degree that that’s possible. Look at the table...
The Yankees' on-field celebration after sweeping away the Twins last Sunday night in Minnesota was among the more stilted in recent memory. In the seconds after Brendan Harris' groundout to Derek Jeter ended both the game and the series, most of the Yankees jogged to the area behind the pitchers' mound and more or less stood there, before someone decided that they should probably jump up and down for...
We'll get into the Twins' Offseason Outlook in a few weeks, but fans are eager to discuss the team's 2010 plans now that they've been eliminated from the playoffs. Once again the Twins have question marks on the left side of the infield. Joe Crede and Orlando Cabrera are free agents, leaving Brendan Harris and Nick Punto as the main internal options. Adrian Beltre is the most intriguing affordable...
MINNEAPOLIS --- About forty-five minutes after Mariano Rivera induced the weak groundout from Brendan Harris that ended this American League Division Series, a few Twins fans lingered in some hidden corner of the Metrodome, testing, for one last time, the stadium's acoustics. "Let's go, Twinkies!" they yelled, their voices echoing throughout the ballpark, well after workers had dug up home...
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