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As I learned from Mike Poepping’s Baseball Reference page, the 14-game major leaguer’s surname is pronounced “PEPP-ing.” So I will refrain from making “pooping” jokes throughout the recap. But it was Poepping’s second-inning swing dumping a floater into the bleachers that let loose the scoring, the Tales hammering the Stories 11-5 to take a 3-1 […]
27 days ago | 1 read
The Derek Shelton era is underway in Minnesota and his first coaching staff is beginning to take shape as his two major pitching coaches have been selected. According to Dan Hayes of The Athletic, Pete Maki has been retained as pitching coach while LaTroy Hawkins will be brought in as bullpen coach, replacing Colby Suggs. […]
28 days ago | 2 reads
Results When #34 went off in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series, I was on the brink of turning 6 years old. Did I understand the significance of the events transpiring? Certainly not. At that particular moment, my sports fandom was limited to kickball at recess and Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out on the NES. But […]
28 days ago | 2 reads
The Twins started out the week with Derek Shelton’s introductory press conference, where the Twins gave some indication that the fire sale over the trade deadline would not be continuing into the offseason. That being said, until Pablo López (or Joe Ryan) steps on the mound for Opening Day, everything is likely fluid for the Twins. […]
29 days ago | 1 read
Hiya, folks! By not-so-popular demand, we’re starting TwinkieTown Movie Night! Cue up the movie at 7:30, watch and make comments! Yes, last week, I proposed 7:00. But one good soul suggested 7:30, and nobody disagreed, so 7:30 it is. Don’t worry, I’ll give you things to watch in the meantime. 1950’s The Jackie Robinson Story […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
If you were a baseball fan channel-surfing during the past month, there was a decent chance you’d tune into Canadian baseball programming of some kind. Without burying the lede, the Toronto Blue Jays played in their first World Series since they were back-to-back champs in 1992-1993. Alas, Toronto could not quite get Louie Varland his […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
With Sonny Gray on the mound, the Short Stories could keep the Tall Tales off the scoreboard. With Willians Astudillo at the plate, they could plate run after run of their own. The Stories entered the win column with a 10-3 win keyed by their starting pitcher and catcher. Gray pitched seven shutout innings before […]
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
The Twins chose to interrupt the World Series with the news that former bench coach and Pittsburgh manager Derek Shelton would be returning to the organization as the new manager for 2026. Shelton was in Minnesota between 2018 and 2019, under both Paul Molitor and Rocco Baldelli, before going to Pittsburgh to manage for almost […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Results George Strait once crooned “you’ve got to have an ace in the hole”. Well, in the winner-take-all Game 7 of the 1991 World Series, the Twins’ ace was a Black Jack. A ten-inning shutout of the Atlanta Braves for St. Paul’s own Jack Morris just might be the single greatest postseason pitching performance of […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
After rallying to win games six and seven and becoming the first repeat champions since the 2000s Yankees, the baseball world is out to take down the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers. The work begins now in the offseason. It’s still unclear what the Minnesota Twins plan to do this offseason. They have the core talent […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
So, as I mentioned a few weeks ago, there’s another site (mostly a political one) that does a Movie Night every Saturday. No, we all don’t go to see Rocky Horror together, although it did play at the Grandview in Saint Paul last night; I didn’t go, because I wasn’t sure if there would be […]
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The 2025 baseball season will officially end tonight! With the improbable, Dodger-centric finish to Game 6, the series is knotted up at three apiece, which means this evening’s contest will be the final game of a very interesting ‘25 campaign. It’s the first Game 7 since 2019, a rare taste of November baseball, and a […]
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The Minnesota Twins announced Derek Shelton as manager yesterday. So, it’s a good time to look at the last four MN baseball skippers and see how they fared in Year 1. Surprisingly, the results have been almost exclusively positive in my lifetime (1985+)… Tom Kelly Ron Gardenhire Paul Molitor Rocco Baldelli The four newest Twins […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
I’ve already mentioned that I am short (5’3”). On that account, you might assume that I cannot stand the Randy Newman song “Short People,” but it is one of my favorite songs: The song is a brilliant satire against bigotry, using exaggerated stereotypes of the short to point out the ridiculousness of hate against any […]
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According to Dan Hayes of The Athletic, among many others, the Twins will announce Derek Shelton as their manager for the 2026 season. The team is likely waiting until the conclusion of the World Series to make the move official, as MLB asks teams to withhold substantial news until after the Fall Classic. Shelton has […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
Two offseasons ago, Twinkie Town christened the top Minnesota Twins players of all time. Last year, we looked at franchise ephemera & eccentricity—from managers to broadcasters to an honorable Judge (not Aaron). This baseball-less period, I’ll be spearheading an accounting of the greatest Twins moments & performances from 1961-Present. As a fanbase, we need some […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Game 3 of the World Series is tonight, with the series shifting to Los Angeles tied 1-1. Meanwhile, rumors abound regarding the Twins’ open manager position, with the top four candidates identified as Derek Shelton, James Rowson, Ryan Flaherty, and Scott Servais. The Past Week on Twinkie Town: Elsewhere in Twins Territory: In the World […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
In the summer of 2010, I was walking through the gargantuan Miller Park AmFam Field parking lot with my aunt. While navigating the rows of tailgaters leading up to the House That Selig Built, we were approached by a guy in a Chicago White Sox jersey. Why a South Sider was present for a Twins […]
about 2 months ago | 2 reads
Before looking for a featured image for this writeup, I hadn’t realized Cotton Nash was also a professional basketball player. He only played two seasons, but perhaps that height advantage gives him an edge in Out of the Park as well. (…nah.) Regardless of what it was, Nash’s home run and Scott Stahoviak’s 3-4 game […]
about 2 months ago | 1 read
“But if I ran the zoo…I’d make a few changes…that’s just what I’d do” The last two months of the 2025 Twins season produced some of the most painful-to-watch baseball this side of 2011-2014 & 2016—if not the That Which Shall Not Be Named late-1990s. Assuming that no major reinforcements are on the way, I […]
about 2 months ago | 4 reads
The Dodgers have punched their ticket to the World Series and await the winner of Game 7 between the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners tonight. Despite having the best record in the majors this season, the Milwaukee Brewers could not overcome the pitching prowess of the Dodgers, with their four starters of Blake Snell, […]
about 2 months ago | 2 reads
We’re not too far from awards season, which means the usual worthy nominees, head-scratching selections, and outright upsets have started to populate the Gold Glove discussion for 2025 . Dillon Dingler is one of the catching finalists for the Detroit Tigers; Carlos Santana earns another nom for the Cleveland Guardians after winning the 1B award last season. Bobby Witt, Jr. represents shortstop, with division foes Maikel Garcia (Royals) and Jose Ramirez (Guardians) both nominated at third base....
about 2 months ago | 2 reads
According to The Athletic, the Twins have talked to famed SLUGGGRRR Nick Punto about the Twins’ open managerial position. Among various other folks. Punto’s currently an infield coach for the Padres; he’s originally from Southern California. (Oddly, his career OBP and SLG are both .323). Now, in a way, I don’t really care who they […]
about 2 months ago | 4 reads
All examples of famous robots. Joining that list in 2026 will be Major League Baseball’s Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS), pejoratively known as “robot umps”. Site-runner Ben already dove into the ABS details a number of weeks ago so I won’t rehash that, other than to say it is interesting that only batters, pitchers, or […]
about 2 months ago | 0 reads
When running an OOTP tournament, you can’t just start with, y’know, the tournament. (Well, you can, but where’s the fun in that?) Instead, you run a shortened or full season so as to seed the teams organically. For this one, I chose to run a particularly short 30-game season, figuring that would be enough. When […]
about 2 months ago | 0 reads