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Playoffs?
The newspapers and every other news outlet might as well save some time and record one story about how the Minnesota Twins bullpen blew the game and publish it every day...
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Minnesota Twins Could Shock Everyone by Winning the Division
With 21 games remaining in the season, there is plenty of time for the Minnesota Twins to finish off an already surprising season with a playoff berth. Behind the great young arms and an offense lead by the M&M Boys, the Twins find themselves just 1..
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Minnesota Twins Return Home in Striking Distance of the Pennant
The Twins have finally returned home. At their Friday homecoming game the Twins knocked off the Detroit Tigers 10-2. With that win they remained a game and a half behind the Chicago White Sox in the division...
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Overlooking Franchise
With the inconsistency and the shakiness of the bullpen in August, it seems as if Francisco Liriano’s performance has been overlooked. Coming out of spring training the team tried to rush Liriano back...
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The September Callups
Moving quickly away from the sickening loss, it's time to talk about the September callups. During the disgusting game against the Athletics, the Minnesota Twins announced the seven ...
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Are You Kidding?...The Twins Blow Four Games in Last 14
Four. That’s the number of games that the Twins’ bullpen has blown during the course of this 14-game road trip. Joe Nathan has now blown two saves and Jesse Crain has had his share of losses, too...
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Twins vs. Sox: The Schedules
The Twins will finish up the month of August with two more games against the Oakland Athletics while the White Sox will finish the month up with two against the Red Sox...
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Done with Seattle
There has been something about Seattle this year, something that the Twins just couldn’t figure out. They played great against them at home, but in both series on the road missed chances at multiple victories...
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Back in Second (Not Anymore)
Call it the first place pressure if you want, but I just don't buy it. Maybe if we were in the final weeks of the season, but with about a month and a half remaining in the season I don't see ...
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50 Home Wins
Over the past month or so you've probably read a lot about how the American League Central could be a race to 90 wins for the Twins and White Sox...
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Tracking Aaron Hicks
The signing period to sign 2008 draft picks came and went on Friday and the Twins managed to lock up their sixth rounder from the state of Iowa after it was thought that he might go to college instead...
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Close Call
Scott Baker pitched five scoreless innings, but he wasn’t having a good day even then. You could tell each inning that he wasn’t very good...
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Winning Touch
Carlos Silva made his return to the Metrodome, and it didn’t go as he would have liked. The story of Silva’s return was overshadowed by another solid outing from Francisco Liriano...
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Number Sixty-Seven
With the series victory over the New York Yankees, the Twins are now 67-53 on the season and could move into first place with a White Sox loss tonight...
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We Got One
It was a tough series for the Twins, one that had just a few things went the other way could have just as easily been a sweep for Minnesota rather than a series loss...
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Could've Gone Seven
Liriano had a good first outing back in the bigs, using 96 pitches to go six scoreless innings in the victory. After thinking about some of the different aspects of his start, I really feel ...
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He's Baaack
Photo From Yahoo Sports It’s been an anticipated day for Twins fans, and they weren’t disappointed. In his first major league start in more than three months, Francisco Liriano dazzled the nearly 40,000 fans in attendance...
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F-Bomb Has a Partner
We knew that Francisco Liriano was likely headed to Minnesota today with Livan heading out the door. But now it appears that he will be joined by a hitter as well...
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Starting Nine: Injury Updates
Going into the White Sox series, I said I’d be happy if the team could win two of the four games and come out of the series no worse than they went in...
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Does it Help?
Sometimes it’s better to just not make a move rather than make a move just to make a move. The Twins did no roster shuffling before the deadline to add a bat...
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Livan for Liriano
The Twins made no trades before the deadline, but if La Velle is correct, they could make a big move on Friday. Francisco Liriano is supposed to start for the Red Wings, but La Velle is reporting that indications are that he won't make that start...
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Trade Deadline Thread
Will the Twins upgrade the bullpen with another setup man? Will they fill the void left by Alexi Casilla in the lineup? The trade deadline is today at 3:00 CT, and we'll see if the Twins can upgrade the team...
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Less than 24
There are now less that 24 hours until the trade deadline, and things are starting to heat up. According to Jayson Stark of ESPN.com, the Twins are trying to trade Boof Bonser for some type of middle relief or right-handed bat...
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Turn in Events
I had planned to talk about last night's game, but the results on Alexi Casilla's MRI forced me to change it up a bit...
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Adam Everett's Goodbye from the Minnesota Twins
As we thought would happen, the Twins have designated shortstop Adam Everett for assignment after a long stay on the disabled list and his 20-day rehab stint. It's highly unlikely that he will be involved in any type of trade...
