Joe Mauer has been selected to this year’s MLB All-Star Game and is the Twins only selection. This season Mauer has a batting line of .325/.416/.448 with 4 home runs and 36 RBI. It will be Mauer’s 5th All-Star game. Josh Willingham was expected to be the Twins representative but he was not selected despite having …
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
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 …
After a year battling with injuries and illnesses, Joe Mauer will miss the rest of the season while he battles a mild case of pneumonia. Doctors told Mauer that he will need two weeks of rest to recover from the illness and with only two weeks left of the season that means he will be …
The Twins continued their dominance against the White Sox with a 6-2 win on Thursday. They have now won 16 of their last 18 against Chicago including 8 in a row. If you go back even further they have won 29 of the last 36 over the Sox. Joe Mauer shined in his first game …
Morneau has been on the 15-day DL since June 14th with a strained wrist. He has also been battling a pinched nerve in his back all season long and has decided it’s time to take care of the issue. Next Wednesday he will have surgery to relieve the pinched nerve. He will have a non-invasive …
The Twins have now won 5 in a row, are 12 and 3 in the month of June and got the return of franchise cornerstone Joe Mauer. It didn’t take Mauer that long to get his first hit since his absence either. He hit a run scoring single in his first at bat in what …
It may have been a rain shortened series with the Sox but that doesn’t change the fact that the Twins swept them out of Minnesota. The Twins have continued their June pitching dominance (best in the league for the month) and had Blackburn go 8 strong innings before Capps came on for his 9th save …
