Tag Archive: Denard Span

Twins Off-season Tracker 2012

 Below you can see all of the Twins offseason moves including free agent signings, trades, waiver claims and much more. Bookmark this post to stay up to date on all the moves made by the Twins this winter.

Twins making moves

 The Twins are having a busier and more productive December than they did in July-Sept. In the last couple of days, the Twins have dealt away Denard Span and Ben Revere. Losing those two will hurt, but in those two trades we acquired pitchers in Alex Meyers (Span deal from Washington Nationals), Vance Worley, and …

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Twins trade Span

 Early reports are that the Twins have made a trade with the Washington Nationals sending OF Denard Span away and obtaining RHP Alex Meyers.  It’s tough to watch Span go, but the Twins need to make some moves because what they currently have just isn’t working. Meyers, a prospect pitcher, has never played anything higher …

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Video: The Big Hrbowski

 The Twins always get creative with their commercials. This time they did a parody with Kent Hrbeck as “The Dude” from Big Lebowski. I may like this one even more than Jim Thome as Paul Bunyan from last year. Have a look

Nishioka out for season, other injury updates

Tsuyoshi Nishioka has been battling oblique soreness for a few weeks now and attempted to play through soreness this past week but the team has announced he will be shut down for the rest of the season. After tonights game Ron Gardenhire said trainers have shut Nishioka down for the season and are giving him …

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Ben Revere’s amazing over the shoulder catch vs. the Orioles

With Delmon Young traded and Kubel and Thome placed on trade waivers, the youth movement may have begun in Minnesota. Not surprising since we are 15 game behind Detroit. We may not catch them this year but that may just be the only thing Ben Revere can’t catch. In the down year for the Twins …

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Span remains with Twins, set to return Tuesday

After weeks of trade speculation, Denard Span was not traded before the non-waiver trade deadline on Sunday and will stay with the Twins. The Nationals appeared to finally offer Storen for Span in a deal but the Twins wouldn’t even let him go for that. They wanted a deal including Storen and an additional player. …

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Span to Nationals deal dead

UPDATE: The deal between the Twins and Nationals is officially dead. Span will remain with the Twins and is currently doing a rehab stint. Check out our injury page for updates on that as well. The Span rumors really pickup up steam (including some scouts watching the Twins’ games) but now have been cooling off …

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