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Link-O-Rama Zack Greinke outed himself as an FIP-loving stathead after winning the AL Cy Young. Obviously the true test will come when the AL MVP is announced Monday, but so far at least I'm very pleased with how the Baseball Writers Association of America has voted this year . They've ...

Twitter Mailbag: Answers Last week I asked for mailbag questions submitted via Twitter and you guys sent me a whole bunch of them, so here are some answers ... Where do you expect J.J. Hardy to bat in the lineup? This is tough to say before knowing who'll be playing second base, because ...

Twins Notes: Washburn, Buscher, Huber, Crede, Neshek Joe Christensen of the Minneapolis Star Tribune notes that the Twins "are expected to pursue" free agent Jarrod Washburn , which certainly isn't surprising. At various points over the past two years the Twins have been linked to Washburn ...

Twitter Mailbag: Any Questions? I'm having some computer problems that rule out putting together a decent Link-O-Rama for this week, but it does give me the opportunity to try something new. I've been on Twitter for a few months now and it recently occurred to me that putting together an ...

Realistic Free Agent Options: Third Base Projecting which free agents the Twins will go after is difficult because their pursuit of low-cost options depends upon how the market shakes out and who drops into their price range. In the past five years they've also wasted money on a lengthy list ...

Twins Notes: Hardy, Gomez, Cabrera, Pavano, and Cuddyer Before settling on Carlos Gomez the Brewers were apparently deep in J.J. Hardy trade talks with an assortment of teams. For example, the Boston Globe reports that they turned down the Red Sox's offer of Michael Bowden , insisting ...

Twins Give Up On Gomez, Get Hardy From Brewers Two winters ago the Twins got Carlos Gomez from the Mets as the centerpiece of the Johan Santana trade and made the 22-year-old Torii Hunter 's replacement in center field despite little evidence that he was ready. He predictably struggled, ...

Link-O-Rama Last spring, when NBCSports.com began planning to launch a new baseball blog , Matthew Pouliot and I were asked to think of a third writer to possibly bring into the mix. We both immediately suggested Craig Calcaterra , who has predictably been a perfect fit at Circling the Bases . ...

Realistic Free Agent Options: Shortstop Projecting which free agents the Twins will go after is difficult because their pursuit of low-cost options depends upon how the market shakes out and who drops into their price range. In the past five years they've also wasted money on a lengthy list of ...

Realistic Free Agent Options: Second Base Projecting which free agents the Twins will go after is difficult because their pursuit of low-cost options depends upon how the market shakes out and who drops into their price range. In the past five years they've also wasted money on a lengthy list ...

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 ...

Joe Needs a Caddy: Redmond or Morales? After spending the past five seasons as the Twins' backup catcher Mike Redmond is now a free agent and the 38-year-old made it clear last week that he has no plans for retirement. "I'm definitely planning on playing next year," Redmond said. "For some ...

Should The Twins Trade Nathan? Joe Nathan and Justin Morneau underwent similar surgeries last week, with Nathan getting two bone chips removed from his right elbow and Morneau getting one bone spur removed from his right wrist. Morneau was already recovering from a stress fracture in his ...

Link-O-Rama Apparently photographers are now taking pictures of my dreams . I've always said that I became a writer to avoid having to speak, so Arthur Krystal 's essay in the New York Times makes perfect sense to me . Someone sent me a Google Wave invite and I quickly deemed it too ...