Minnesota Twins Rumors & News

Detroit News "A nine-game losing streak, and then this. Welcome to life these days for the Minnesota Twins. "That," said Joe Mauer, "is kind of the way things have been going." Of course, if not for Mauer, it would've been worse. For the third time in his major league career, he spoiled a no-hitter in..." May 25

St. Paul Pioneer Press "The Twins have turned the page on Triple-A outfielder Joe Benson. Benson, who came to spring training with a chance to win the starting job in center field, was lost on outright release waivers to the Texas Rangers. The Twins needed to create a 40-man roster spot in order to make room for..." May 25

Detroit News "He had already chopped his way into the Tigers record book, flamboyantly, three weeks ago when he struck out 17 batters, the most in a single game by any Tigers pitcher in history. Friday night at Comerica Park, Anibal Sanchez came within two batters of finding elite fame in baseball's all-time..." May 25

Minneapolis Star Tribune "Righthander P.J. Walters told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle on Thursday that he is being promoted to the Twins and expects to start sometime this weekend. Walters is 4-2 with a 3.31 ERA for the Red Wings. Indications are that Walters could start Saturday against the Tigers. Walters won..." May 24

St. Paul Pioneer Press "Twins third baseman Trevor Plouffe remained with the team and was scheduled to undergo a full-impact test before Thursday's game at Comerica Park. Plouffe, placed Wednesday on the seven-day concussion disabled list, was admittedly groggy after taking a Dan Uggla knee to the back of the head on..." May 24

Detroit Free Press "If you ever wondered what it was like to see Hack Wilson drive in those record 191 runs for the 1930 Cubs, Miguel Cabrera is providing a reenactment. Cabrera drove in the Tigers’ first three runs Thursday night with a two-run home run and a single. That gives him 13 RBIs in the past four games..." May 24

Minneapolis Star Tribune "The Twins went 33 consecutive days utilizing the same 25-man roster this season, a stretch of stability that’s as rare in modern Major League Baseball as a triple play. Sticking with the status quo was easy when the Twins were outpacing expectations, when they were winning series despite some..." May 23

Minneapolis Star Tribune "After the bus ride, the car accident, the airport scramble and the sleepless night, how difficult could playing baseball be? “I just figured it would be hard” to get to Atlanta, Chris Colabello said after his first major league game, “because that’s how things go in my life.” Good point. He..." May 23

St. Paul Pioneer Press "The Twins gave Vance Worley 10 starts to find his groove. On Wednesday, they finally ran out of patience. The Twins optioned their Opening Day starter to Triple-A Rochester after he was shelled for eight runs on 10 hits in an 8-3 loss to the Atlanta Braves. Three of the hits were homers,..." May 23

Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Decisions, decisions. Braves rookie sensation Evan Gattis was poised and ready at the plate Wednesday afternoon, working with a 3-0 count and the bases loaded. The question was, when the next pitch came over the plate, where was he going to put it? Over the right-field wall was Gattis’..." May 23

St. Paul Pioneer Press "The Twins lost another game they should have won Tuesday night. Now they must hope they didn't lose their starting third baseman in the process. A scary moment came in the top of the 10th inning of Minnesota's 5-4 loss to the Atlanta Braves, when Trevor Plouffe was injured trying to break up..." May 22

Minneapolis Star Tribune "Chris Colabello's baseball journey from independent baseball has reached the major leagues. The Twins have added Colabello, veteran of seven seasons in the Can-Am League, to their roster for Wednesday's game with the Braves, calling him up from Class AAA Rochester to replace Trevor Plouffe, who..." May 22

St. Paul Pioneer Press "Twins third baseman Trevor Plouffe has been placed on the seven-day disabled list after showing concussion symptoms following a collision at second base late in Tuesday night's loss. Plouffe was examined by a doctor at Turner Field, but has yet to undergo a full impact test. That will happen in..." May 22

Atlanta Journal-Constitution "If Evan Gattis keeps this up, the Braves might just want to dip the big rookie’s spikes in bronze and be done with it. With the Braves down to their final out in the ninth inning, Gattis hit another dramatic, pinch-hit homer Tuesday night, a game-tying solo shot against the Twins to force extra..." May 22

Fox Sports North "Minnesota native Caleb Thielbar is set to make his major league debut with his hometown team. The Twins announced Monday that Thielbar, a left-handed reliever, has been recalled from Triple-A Rochester. To make room for Thielbar on the roster, Minnesota optioned left-hander Pedro Hernandez to..." May 20

WEEI Boston "David Ortiz is at it again. The Red Sox designated hitter almost single-handedly carried his team to an 12-5 win over the Twins Saturday night at Target Field, with Ortiz claiming the 40th multi-home run game of his career via a pair of blasts. It marked the fourth time in Ortiz’ career he has..." May 19

Fox Sports North "After finally earning his first win in a Twins uniform last time out, Minnesota right-hander Vance Worley took another step forward Friday. Unfortunately for Worley, it didn't result in his second straight victory. Worley allowed just one unearned run in six innings Friday against Boston and..." May 18

Chicago Tribune "Paul Konerko returned Wednesday to the Chicago White Sox's lineup Wednesday after a two-game break. But the biggest revival was that of Adam Dunn, who slugged two home runs that vaulted the Sox to a 9-4 win over the Minnesota Twins. The nine runs were a season-high for the Sox. Dunn..." May 16

CSN Chicago "Alexei Ramirez said the White Sox brought a winning feel to the field with them on Tuesday night. They needed every ounce of it to overcome a boatload of adversity they faced. Late RBI hits from Tyler Flowers and Ramirez helped the White Sox handle it all with precision as they handed the..." May 15

Chicago Tribune "Paul Konerko received a scheduled day off Monday night, but the mistakes the White Sox committed in a 10-3 humbling by the Twins could lead to a forced cut in playing time for guilty players. "Eventually you get to that point where you don't pay attention to what's going on, we'll find somebody..." May 14

Minneapolis Star Tribune "The moment Ron Gardenhire first saw Oswaldo Arcia’s swing in spring training, the Twins manager became a big fan. Gardenhire has been committed to finding a place in the lineup for the rookie outfielder’s bat ever since Arcia was called up for good last month. That mean putting up with the ups..." May 10

Minneapolis Star Tribune "Rookie outfielder Aaron Hicks was back in the starting lineup Wednesday after being upbraided by manager Ron Gardenhire, who didn’t divulge the details of his message. “It was personal thing between him and I,” Gardenhire said. “When I talk to a player like that, I don’t run him out of the..." May 09

St. Paul Pioneer Press "Justin Morneau absolutely loves Fenway Park. He loves the energy. He loves the atmosphere. He loves the tradition. "Hearing 'Sweet Caroline' in the eighth inning is one of my favorite things in baseball," the Twins first baseman said. Most important, it is easily Morneau's favorite..." May 09

Minneapolis Star Tribune "Perhaps if Scott Diamond’s 2013 debut hadn’t been delayed by the discovery of a bone chip in his elbow in December, he would have been ready to start on Opening Day, not April 13. And maybe he would have been allowed a shot at a complete-game shutout. After his sparkling performance on Tuesday,..." May 08

Minneapolis Star Tribune "Jared Burton gave up three consecutive two-out hits on Monday night, the final one driving home the winning run in the 11th inning of the Twins’ 6-5 loss to the Red Sox. But it could be argued that Burton’s worst toss of the night wasn’t from the mound. Burton, the normally reliable setup..." May 07

ESPN.com "Miguel Sanó, one of the Minnesota Twins' top prospects, is a movie star -- literally. Sanó won't turn 20 for a week, but he is not intimidated by the cameras recording his every move as he hits his way up the Twins' farm system toward the majors. At his current rate, he'll most likely arrive at..." May 06

Cleveland Plain Dealer "The Indians stretched their winning streak to six games Saturday as Scott Kazmir won his first game in over two years and Nick Swisher celebrated his return to the lineup with a homer in a 7-3 victory over the Twins at Progressive Field. The winning streak is longest by the Indians since they..." May 04

St. Paul Pioneer Press "Paul Risso's lonely line in the baseball-reference.com database notes that he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the sixth round of the 1973 Major League Baseball draft out of San Mateo (Calif.) College. The right-handed pitcher merely wants to pick up where he left off four decades ago..." May 01

St. Paul Pioneer Press "Justin Morneau drove in a pair of runs as did Chris Parmelee, who belted his second home run of the season, as Minnesota awoke from its offensive slumber to avoid a three-game sweep by the Tigers. Twins starter Scott Diamond allowed two runs in six innings to earn his second victory and halt..." May 01

Detroit News "Hey, May, you have a tough act to follow. Your pal, April, went out roaring. The Tigers ended the opening month of the season on three high notes: A) a 6-1 victory on Tuesday night over the Twins; B) a five-game winning streak which Anibal Sanchez will try to stretch to six in Wednesday's..." May 01

Detroit Free Press "After Miguel Cabrera hit a three-run homer to rightfield on Sunday night, manager Jim Leyland repeated his belief that Cabrera has the best opposite-field power he has ever seen. Prince Fielder has to rank pretty high on that list, too. With the Tigers down two runs in the sixth inning..." April 30

Minneapolis Star Tribune "You can’t beat these Twins outfielders for versatility. They’re showing new talents every day. Take Aaron Hicks, for instance. His day included a horizontal dive of a catch, a bullet of a throw, and, for the first time in his career, a base hit that wasn’t a single. Or Josh Willingham. He..." April 28

CBSSports.com "Baseball commissioner Bud Selig seemingly has planned to step down, retire or vacate his job almost since he took office back in 1992. But this time, he is much more emphatic about his retirement pronouncements, even to the point of believability. “You can believe it,'' Selig said, pretty..." April 26

Fort Worth Star-Telegram "If Nick Tepesch struggled Thursday night, his right wrist wasn’t going to be an excuse. Manager Ron Washington made that much clear before the game. “We’re not going to blame no wrist,” Washington said. No excuses were needed in the end — for Tepesch, who had his last start cut short after..." April 26

Yahoo! Sports "If dogs are the most loyal creatures on the planet, the Minnesota Twins are a close second. Since 1986, three general managers and two managers have steered the Twins. No other baseball team comes close to such little turnover. As modern sports' levels of patience devolved, something very..." April 24

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "After losing the opener of Tuesday’s day-night doubleheader at Target Field, Marlins’ manager Mike Redmond once again expressed frustration with the offense. “We’ve been doing the same thing day in and day out,” Redmond said, following the 4-3 Twins’ victory. “It seems like it’s five hits, two..." April 24

Minneapolis Star Tribune "Three inches of snow, 35 degrees of wind chill, and 88 mph of fastball. It’s not the usual recipe for a southern California kid to win a ballgame, but Kevin Correia made it work on Tuesday. The San Diego righthander kept Miami’s bats as cold as the obnoxious weather in Game 1 of a day-night..." April 23

Miami Herald "Miami’s cold bats won’t be warming up any in Minnesota, at least not literally. The Marlins are bracing for extremely frigid weather Monday when they open a two-game set at Target Field in Minneapolis against the Twins. Monday’s game-time forecast: temperatures in the low 30s, winds gusting..." April 22

St. Paul Pioneer Press "The Minnesota Twins have postponed the Monday night, April 22, game against the Miami Marlins because of inclement weather, the Twins announced. The game will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader Tuesday. " April 22

St. Paul Pioneer Press "Twins outfielder Wilkin Ramirez received a scare Tuesday, April 16, but he is expected to be fine. Ramirez had just singled to start a two-out rally against the Los Angeles Angels in the fifth inning when he took an errant pickoff throw from Jerome Williams off his upper back. Twins manager..." April 17

St. Paul Pioneer Press "Remember when the early talk was about how Joe Mauer was striking out at an alarming rate (for him)? Remember when there was some concern about this experiment that had the Twins' franchise catcher hitting second? Well, uh, strike that from the record. Mauer is back to being..." April 17

New York Post "It’s no longer a secret. The rest of baseball is coming to understand the Mets have a special talent in Matt Harvey. Twins manager Ron Gardenhire was the latest talent evaluator wowed by the 24-year-old Harvey, after watching him pitch in person for the first time on Saturday. All Harvey did..." April 15