Hello Hardy, Goodbye Gomez
voicefromtwinsterritory.mlblogs.com 30 days ago — It didn't take long for the off-season to get started for the Minnesota Twins. Less than two days after the conclusion of the World Series, the team put a dent in their to-do list with a trade.  With the infield filled with uncertainty outside of first base and Justin Morneau, it came as ...

2010 And Beyond
twins.gearupforsports.com 10/16/2009 — It was a great ride on the way to winning the American League Central Division Crown, but October is a big-boys club, and the Twins in comparison to the Yankees, Angels, and Red Sox, are barely out of puberty. There were games they could have won, and should have won, but that’s how ...

Twins Non-Tender Candidates
twinkietown.com 11/5/2009 — Are there really any surprises? 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 ...

Twins Win The Central
twinkietalk.com 10/7/2009 — Wow. What do you even say to a game like that? I’ve been sitting at my computer for a solid 20 minutes now, looking at the cursor blink. I’m alternating between racking my brain for something to write and laughing hysterically. A couple weeks ago the Twins playoff expectancy was ...

Discussion: Twins' Offseason
mlbtraderumors.com 10/19/2009 — 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 ...

Ron Gardenhire: AL Manager of the Year?
nickstwinsblog.com 10/29/2009 — There are two general points of view when it comes to Ron Gardenhire. Most people outside of Minnesota seem to feel that he's one of the game's best managers, a man who consistently gets the very most out of his players and puts the Twins in a ...

Twins Acquire JJ Hardy
jorgesaysno.blogspot.com 28 days ago — It didn't take long for the Brewers to make the trade everybody saw coming. "The ticker tape was still falling in Manhattan on Friday when the Brewers dealt shortstop J.J. Hardy, a staple of trade rumors this year, to the Twins for speedy center ...

Buscher and Rage and Nothing
twinsgeek.blogspot.com 30 days ago — You'll see this later, but I can't wait much longer to spit it out: DAMN! Damn, damn, DAMN!!!! One of the early signs that this blog was going to turn from technical to sad little obsession took place on January 31, 2002. On that date, the Twins had ...

Obviously, I am an Idiot: Preseason Predictions Revisited
myteamrivals.typepad.com 10/31/2009 — Because there wasn't really much else to write about during spring training, I made a number of predictions about the upcoming Twins' season. I outlined what I thought would be some of the greatest strengths and weaknesses of the roster this year, and while I didn't put an exact number on ...

The Polanco Crush
twinsgeek.blogspot.com 10/29/2009 — One of the more interesting things about writing the TwinsCentric Offseason GM Handbook was the internal debates that raged. The obvious ones are about Twins players. For instance, Nick Nelson and I have never seen eye-to-eye on whether Carlos Gomez ...

Twins take 3B Buscher off 40-man roster (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 11/3/2009
The Minnesota Twins have moved third baseman Brian Buscher off their 40-man roster and assigned him to Triple-A Rochester. The move was made Tuesday. Buscher will become a minor league free agent 16 days after the end of the World Series. Over parts ...

Minnesota removes Buscher from 40-man roster — SI.com - MLB 11/3/2009
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Minnesota Twins have moved third baseman Brian Buscher off their 40-man roster and assigned him to Triple-A Rochester.

Swing and A Miss: Minnesota Twins Lose Out on Tampa Bay Rays' Akinori Iwamura — Bleacher Report - MLB 11/4/2009
Well, there goes one article from the offseason que. The Rays, finding themselves with a surfeit of infielders, seem to be on the verge of dealing second baseman Akinori Iwamura and another player to the Pirates for reliever Jesse Chavez. However, ...

Twins' Joe Mauer enters offseason healthy, pondering extension — Latest Sporting News Articles for MLB 11/4/2009
Sporting News staff reports According to the Star Tribune , Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer recently got a clean bill of health — and soon could begin talks about a contract ...

Minnesota Twins Offseason Blueprint: Letting Go (The Carl Pavano Edition) — Bleacher Report - MLB 11/4/2009
To carry-on with the discussions on who the Twins should bring back, Carl Pavano is the next to be discussed. After failing to acquire a starting pitcher at the July trade deadline, most fans grew huffy and puffy at Bill Smith who despite trading for ...