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THT Awards Season Recap Part Two

Welcome to the awards. This year’s proof that assigning wins and losses to a pitcher is an idiotic practice that must stop Good Luck Division: Matt Harrison went 9-3 with a 5.49 ERA. Sure, he won a game where he allowed four...

Twins Notes: Bunts, Walks, Johan, and Thoma

Twins Notes: Bunts, Walks, Johan, and ThomaThe Twins narrowly missed posting the highest batting average with runners in scoring position by any team during the past 25 years, fading somewhat down the stretch to finish six...

Seeing Red: The Minor League System of the Year

Depth is an important thing to have in Major League Baseball. Numerous unexpected injuries occur each year. Players counted on to make important contributions are ineffective. As such, Major League Baseball teams count on their...

Twins Notes: Mauer, Lohse, Cabrera, Bartlett, and Media

Twins Notes: Mauer, Lohse, Cabrera, Bartlett, and MediaFor some reason Joe Mauer winning the batting title again is seemingly being viewed as sort of a ho-hum thing, but it's really a pretty historic accomplishment. On a...

Questions not as big this offseason

Emergence of young stars has Twins feeling good about core The Twins have contractual control over several of their young stars through at least 2010, including Justin Morneau through 2013. But heading into this offseason, the...

The end hurts for Twins, but the future is bright

The Minnesota Twins ignored their inexperience, until the very end. Given the preseason forecasts relegating them to third or fourth place in the AL Central and the large group of unproven players moving into key roles, 88 wins...

Look ahead to the 2009 Twins

There are reasons for optimism and pessimism as the Twins look toward 2009. Here's a few of each: OPTIMISM 1 The starting rotation of Francisco Liriano, Scott Baker, Nick Blackburn, Kevin Slowey and Glen Perkins is young and...

2009 Twins payroll

Includes prorated signing bonus UNDER CONTROL Average salary of about $425,000: Scott Baker, Nick Blackburn, Boof Bonser, Craig Breslow, Brian Buscher, Alexi Casilla, Carlos Gomez, Brendan Harris,Philip Humber, Francisco...

THT Daily: Crunchtime

Major League News for September 28 You can always find the most recent THT Daily at http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/content/thtdaily/ Player News Player Headlines are courtesy of Rotoworld Hanley Ramirez will not play...

Blackburn would start tiebreaker

If the White Sox defeat the Tigers today, the Twins will send rookie Nick Blackburn to the mound for Tuesday's one-game playoff with the White Sox. Kevin Slowey was slated for that game before taking a line drive off his...

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