Minnesota Twins Analysis

Miguel Cabrera leads the Major Leagues with 40 RBI and the Tigers lead our team rankings. Read more »

The Rockies, Red Sox and Rangers hold the top three spots in our rankings, while the Padres, Astros and Marlins bring up the rear. Read more »

Ian Kinsler, once thought to be dispensable in Texas, leads the Major Leagues with 1.5 WAR as the Rangers sit second in our rankings. Read more »

The Braves are 11-1 this season and riding a nine-game winning streak. Read more »

A week into the 2013 season, the Rockies are an offensive power, the Dodgers are incredibly hard to score against and the Mets, Red Sox and Reds are very balanced. Read more »

The Giants have put a cap on the 2012 season, meaning Major League Baseball will shift to free agency. Here is a complete list of all free agents, including those with player, team or mutual options for next year. Read more »

With Evan Longoria back in the lineup, the Rays jumped seven spots in this week's rankings. Read more »

The Twins won the AL Central during their inaugural season at Target Field, but 2011 has not been nearly as kind. Read more »

The Twins had an impressive offseason, acquiring J.J. Hardy and Orlando Hudson to add to the M&M Boys and the rest of that lineup. The only thing standing between Target Field and postseason baseball in its first season is the Minnesota pitching staff. Read more »

The Twins dealt away a future Hall of Fame starting pitcher in Johan Santana and an up and comer in Matt Garza and weren't expected to compete in a division with the Tigers and Tribe, but they needed 163 games to be eliminated. Read more »

The puerile trio: Blackburn, Perkins, and Slowey had a rough start to the season but have since rebounded fantastically. In their last nine starts they are 5-2 with an outstanding 2.03 ERA. Read more »

For the Twins, this will be a transitional season that won't embarrass them before they move to their beautiful new ballpark in 2010 with an improve chance at competing. Read more »

Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen loves to speak his mind. Most of the time, his commentary is about ripping his own players, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti, and others in major league baseball. He does have a soft spot for one team, which is the Minnesota Twins. He was raving about them prior to the White Sox/Twins game at the Metrodome on August 19th. Read more »

The AL MVP winner should be awarded based on which player leads their team to a playoff berth. The Twins were not expected to do anything this season and with Liriano being out for the year, Morneau should be the MVP if he leads his team to a playoff berth. As great as David Ortiz has been, he cannot receive that award if his team does not make the playoffs, which will likely happen. Read more »

Most pitchers should be able to figure it out by the fourth year, but Kyle Lohse never could. It was a joke that Twins' GM Terry Ryan wanted him over Francisco Liriano in the rotation because he felt Liriano was not ready. Can Liriano be any worse than Lohse? What had Lohse done to earn Ryan?s faith even if he had potential? He simply did not deserve it. Read more »

Twins fans should be very thankful for the contributions of Shannon Stewart. He is the reason why the Twins made the playoffs in 2003 thanks to an awesome second half. They were sputtering offensively for the first few months of that season as they were falling apart players began pointing fingers at each other for the team?s problems. Read more »

The club is starting to become what Twins GM Terry Ryan envisioned in the off-season. If Twins fans have to evaluate the way this team has played all season, they have to be happy at what they have saw overall especially after the way their team started. Read more »

KFAN?s afternoon drive-time sports talk show host Dan Barriero has mocked Joe Mauer as Baby Jesus because the Twin Cities media has been talking about how he is going to be the next best thing before he played a major league game. As derisive as it is, this nickname seems to fit in a way because he is carrying his hometown team to greatness this season. Read more »

Heading into the 2005 season, the Twins were predicted by some experts to win the World Series. They came out of the gates slow and were eventually buried in the Central Division by the White Sox and Indians. This year, the surprise team has been the Tigers, but the Twins are beginning to finally play to their potential. Read more »

The Minnesota Twins talked a good game in the off-season about how they are a sleeper in the division and how they would do well with no pressure on them. Twins fans and the national and local media did not have any expectations on them this season. As a result, the team had the mentality of them versus the experts and their own fans. Read more »