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I've been inspired.
Eric in Madison is one of Twinkie Town's original members, and I'm fairly certain he was onboard for the switch from Twins Territory via Twins Geek over to where we currently chill and chat about Twins baseball. Eric, you signed up on November 19, 2005. That ...
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Minnesota Twins
Seth Stohs On 40-Man Roster Additions
Head over and see Seth's thoughts on who the Twins added to the 40-man roster. Today was the deadline, and there were some interesting names excluded. But who made it?
3B--Danny Valencia
P----Alex Burnett
P----Deolis Guerra
P----Rob Delaney
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Deolis Guerra
Free agency looms. Will any of the Twins five free agents return?
It's been confirmed that the Twins have had opening talks with Carl Pavano's agent, but other than Ron Gardenhire saying he'd be interested in bringing back Orlando Cabrera as his second basemen there's been no news on ...
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Minnesota Twins
Howard Sinker Fixes the Twins
Check out Howard's blog from this morning where he names a trio of free agent additions that would help the Twins be a better team without totally busting the bank.
2B: Felipe Lopez
3B: Pedro Feliz
SP: Ben Sheets
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Minnesota Twins
Ryan Howard
Felipe Lopez
Pedro Feliz
Ben Sheets
Selig Talks Playoffs 2010, Draft Picks
Bud Selig is attempting to tighten up the 2010 playoff schedule so there aren't as many off days. He also discusses free agency and more equality in draft picks, while talking very briefly about instant replay (still not in favor).
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Bud Selig
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twinkietown.com - 42 hours ago
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More photos » by Ann Heisenfelt - AP
Browse more photos » Does anyone else feel like
this one is inevitable? The Twins had interest at the trade deadline ...
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Twins, Washburn Continue to Make Eyes At Each Other
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Royals Review
found this 42 hours agofound this
Manager of the Year
Scioscia, Tracy Named Managers Of The Year
and Rich keep getting richer? Red Sox and Yankees both looking to get Halladay:
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2009/11/heyman-yankees-red-sox-have-shot-at-halladay.html
Update: Add another link, linking Washburn and ...
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Boston Red Sox
New York Yankees
Roy Halladay
Zack Greinke Wins 2009 AL Cy Young Award
Well, he deserves it. It's great when the guy who deserves it gets the award.
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Zack Greinke
Cy Young
Minnesota Twins
Twins 2010 Uniforms, Illustraded
A three-dimensional view of the five possible Twins uniforms for 2010.
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Minnesota Twins
Juan Morillo & Justin Huber: Japan Bound
Joe C. confirms what we already knew about Morillo, but it wasn't official on Huber until now. The moves will be officially announced later today.
New uniforms are currently being unveiled in downtown Minneapolis. Are you there? Are you taking ...
MLB
Juan Morillo
Justin Huber
Minnesota Twins
twinkietown.com - 5 days ago
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A couple of weeks ago, I read this
blog post from Joe Posnanski , in which he
discusses comments made by Red Sox GM Theo Epstein about outfielder J.D. Drew . The whole thing's interesting, but what caught my eye was the following quote from Epstein: ...
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On Productive Outs
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by Tony Gutierrez - AP
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The Twins now have approximately $62 million committed to eight players who are under contract for 2010, and with J.J. Hardy 's estimated ...
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Minnesota Twins
This will be the final installment of the review of the top players in the organization on a position basis. Historically, the Twins have had a dominant bullpen. That all changed in 2008 when Pat Neshek was lost to injury and the Twin's strength became a glaring weakness. ...
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Top o' the mornin' to ya...
Here's a Q&A; with Joe Mauer over at the Strib online. There are some good quotes, all about his game and his rewards and no contract talk, but if you've read the Twins coverage at the Star Tribune at all this week then you've probably already seen most of ...
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Joe Mauer
J.J. Hardy
Fox Sports
Milwaukee Brewers
There were several player moves this week including Seth Stohs reporting from Arizona yesterday that Michael McCardell has left the Mesa Solar Sox to have some bone chips removed from his pitching elbow. The Twins removed Justin Huber and Armando Gabino from their 40-man roster. ...
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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 ...
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Exactly nobody is surprised , as Mauer is about as good at the plate as any other two AL catchers combined.
This is Mauer's third Silver Slugger, and second in a row. He still has a ways to go to catch Mike Piazza , though - Piazza leads all catchers with ten awards.
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Joe Mauer
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Mike Piazza
Scioscia...Andrus...Greinke...and looky looky who completes the puzzle!
Rk Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Pts
1
Joe Mauer
Minnesota Twins
24
3
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
371
2
Ben Zobrist
Tampa Bay Rays
-
10
6
2
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Boston Red Sox
We have conflicting reports on whether Mauer contract extension talks have actually started. Joe C. in this morning's Star Tribune: " Contract talks haven't started ". My guess is this is Mauer downplaying any preliminary discussions that may be taking place. No cause for alarm...yet.
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