How does Twins' pitching staff reset with injuries?
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- After a fairly healthy camp, Monday brought a barrage of bad news on the injury front for the Twins. Anthony DeSclafani (forearm strain), Jhoan Duran (right oblique strain) and Caleb Thielbar (hamstring strain) will start the 2024 season on the injured list, president of baseball operations
Projecting the Twins' 2024 Opening Day roster
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The vast majority of the Twins’ roster picture was all but settled when the last edition of this roster projection came out two weeks ago, and not a ton has changed since then on the position player side, where camp has progressed mostly seamlessly. However, the
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Julien focused on fielding: 'The goal is to win a Gold Glove'
DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Twins manager Rocco Baldelli has taken a real shine to second baseman Edouard Julien. Baldelli has loved watching a player who made it to the Majors for his bat become so good at fielding that he now aspires to win a Gold Glove. “It’s something you always
Meet the man behind Twins’ prospect highlight account
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Twins' prospects get to dream big in Spring Breakout
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- As the Twins rallied back from an early deficit to win Saturday’s Spring Training game against the Rays, 6-5, a couple of Minnesota’s prospects took a pass through the big league clubhouse at Hammond Stadium. In full uniform with their own game scheduled to start after
These prospects stood out most in Spring Breakout
As the inaugural Spring Breakout weekend comes to a close, there was no shortage of talent on display. With dozens of Top 100 prospects and nearly two-thirds of the 900 players who make up the team Top 30 prospects lists taking part, each club was well represented … but a
'I built an engine': Vázquez shining after winter work
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- When Christian Vázquez arrived at Twins camp in February, he did so with a new piece of machinery. Well, more like a tuned-up piece of machinery. “I feel like I built an engine in the offseason,” Vázquez told MLB.com earlier this spring. The engine was Vázquez’s
'Emma,' outfield lead Twins’ Breakout group
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1 player from each team making a big impression this spring
As we near the end of Spring Training, and with Opening Day right around the corner, it's time to check in on which players around baseball have made the biggest impression on each club during Cactus League and Grapefruit League play. With the help of all 30 MLB.com beat writers,
Triple-A affiliate will host Sister Ros bobblehead night
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Top prospect Jenkins scratched from Spring Breakout due to quad strain
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Twins fans hoping to get a look at their club’s future outfield will have to wait a bit longer to see the full picture. Walker Jenkins, Minnesota’s No. 1 prospect and the No. 10 overall prospect per MLB Pipeline, was scratched from the Twins’ Spring Breakout
No. 15 Twins prospect Martin feeling back to normal
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- For too long, Austin Martin wasn’t even sure what “normal” was supposed to feel like anymore -- but it’d be tough to tell that from watching how he carried himself all spring. The 24-year-old looked at ease as he undid his long, wavy hair from the
Varland staying focused as he tries to make team
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Considering the sinker is the developing pitch that Louie Varland hopes will help him find better results against right-handed hitters this season, he really hasn’t thrown it a lot in games this spring. Every outing, he said, the plan would be to throw more of them,
1 under-the-radar Spring Breakout prospect for each club
Spring Breakout begins Thursday with a pair of the showcase event's 16 games set to kick things off. Headlined by the best and brightest prospects in the game, Spring Breakout will feature no shortage of household names: 72 of MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects and 575 of the 900 players
Kirilloff 'up for the challenge' of splitting time at first with Santana
NORTH PORT, Fla. -- When the Twins first signed Carlos Santana in free agency this past offseason, there was some notion that the switch-hitting veteran could be part of a first-base platoon with incumbent Alex Kirilloff, who played the strong side of such a platoon last season. But considering Santana
Twins top prospect Jenkins passing every test at camp
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The Twins knew they were in for a promising pick when they jumped from No. 13 to No. 5 in the 2023 Draft lottery. There was a Big Five in the Draft class between four stellar outfielders (two from college, two from high school) and a
1 position battle to watch for each team
With the first few rounds of cuts behind us, clubs are getting a clearer picture of what their rosters are going to look like to open the 2024 season. Even so, every team still has at least one key question mark -- a role that remains, for all intents and
Top pitching prospect Festa building endurance
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- David Festa uses various terms to describe his physique over the years -- “premature for my build” is one of them, and, well, “tall and skinny” is really the more blunt way he puts it, as is apparent when standing near him in a room. He
10 players having a scorching Spring Training
We aren’t really meant to read into Spring Training stats for a number of reasons. They measure a small sample size when players are trying to warm up after a few months off, and no one really plays preseason exhibition games with results in mind in any sport. Plenty of
Here's why Twins may be MLB's biggest sleeper -- literally!
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Every team's projected 2024 home run leader
Spring Training is in full swing as we gear up for the 2024 regular season. That means it's a good time to look at projections for how things might turn out this year, and as usual, home runs are at the forefront of that discussion. Courtesy of FanGraphs’ Steamer projections,
See where Minnesota lands on 2024 farm system rankings
We rank farm systems twice a year, and while we spend a lot of time breaking them down, evaluating the talents of 5,000 players across 30 different organizations is a fairly impossible task. We often joke that one team congratulates us on placing them perfectly, while the other 29 lament
Buxton starting to hit top speed: 'I wish the season started tomorrow'
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Just watch Byron Buxton run. It remains quite the sight when Buxton hits cruising velocity and just glides around the bases. He got to do a lot of that in Saturday’s 10-7 victory over the Yankees at Lee Health Sports Complex, when he tripled twice and