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Since Joe Nathan suffered a season-ending injury prior to the 2010 season, the Twins have seen a vast array of different pitchers to audition to fill the role of closer. Even Nathan himself came back for the 2011 season to nail down a few saves, but the Twins have seen players such as Jon Rauch, Matt Capps, Jared Burton and Glen Perkins try ...

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Pitching, Pitching, Pitching...

Every club needs it and every club searches to add more pitching in the offseason.

For the Twins, it will be a challenging offseason. The club needs to fill four starting spots in the rotation and the front office would also like to add some bullpen depth. This can come out of the free agent pool or by trading another player but the Twins have holes they need to fill before the start of next year.

Yesterday, I looked at the former Twins position players filling the free agent market ...

Tags: brian fuentes, carl pavano, francisco liriano, jason marquis, jon rauch, kyle lohse, latroy hawkins, matt capps, scott baker

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For the first time since before the Joe Nathan era in Minnesota, the team will enter next season with a homegrown pitcher as the closer at the back-end of the bullpen. Glen Perkins exploded onto the scene in 2011 and he continued that success into 2012 by being a dominant relief man for the Twins. All of this came after he failed to be a starter and it looked like he might be out of the system for the Twins. Back in 2009, Perkins and his agent had the players ...

Tags: alex burnett, anthony swarzak, brian duensing, casey fien, glen perkins, jared burton, joe nathan, matt capps, ron gardenhire

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Wednesday marked the end of a sad love affair between the Twins and relief pitcher Matt Capps. The team turned down his multi-million dollar option for next season and instead decided to pay him a $250,000 buyout of his deal. Capps will become a free agent at age 29 and his time with the Twins looks to be over. It was an up-and-down ride for Capps during his stint in Minnesota but it seemed like plenty of more ups than downs. He came to the Twins in the middle ...

Tags: bill smith, glen perkins, joe nathan, jon rauch, matt capps, wilson ramos

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I’m having trouble getting into the second round of the playoffs. I don’t really want either the Yankees or the Tigers to make the World Series, which means I can’t even root for the American League. The official team of The Voice Of Reason™ - the Phillies – is also out for the first time in years. But part of it is because I’m ready for the next act.

The offseason.

Oddly, I don’t think I’ve looked forward to an offseason this much in years. For starters, it’ll be nice ...

Tags: jamey carroll, jason marquis, joel zumaya, josh willingham, matt capps, minnesota twins, offseason, ryan doumit, terry ryan

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The end of the 2012 season is closely approaching and this leaves time to reflect back on the season when the hometown team isn't going to be in the playoffs. For the Twins, 2012 was another season to forget but there were some bright spots amidst all of the dullness of the past few months. Some of the brightest stars for 2012 came from the crop of free agents the Twins signed during last winter. These players might not have turned the team around from the dismal 2011 campaign but there were some ...

Tags: casey fien, jamey carroll, jared burton, jason marquis, josh willingham, luis perdomo, matt capps, matt carson, ryan doumit, sam deduno, sean burroughs

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In last night's loss to the New York Yankees, Matt Capps made his return to the field after missing almost the entire second half of the season. It was the first action for Capps after not appearing in a game since the middle of July. The season has been injury plagued for the 29-year old relief pitcher and his time with the Twins has been full of plenty of ups-and-downs. Fans seem to hold a grudge against Capps for his poor play in the last couple of years but ...

Tags: alex burnett, anthony swarzak, casey fien, glen perkins, jared burton, matt capps, wilson ramos

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Today is the July trade deadline. At 3:00 this afternoon (central time), the non-waiver trade deadline will come and go. The Twins have already traded Francisco Liriano. That was a given. The Twins needed to deal him before July 31 regardless of the 10 (or more) things that we hate about the actual deal itself.

What would your reaction be if the Twins did not make another trade before the 3:00 deadline? What if Terry Ryan does not get an offer for Denard Span, Josh Willingham or Glen ...

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The Big Picture
The Orioles are currently seven games behind the New York Yankees in the AL East. However, they are currently 45-40 as the second half starts and that puts them 0.5 games ahead of the Tampa Bay Rays for the second Wild Card. The Orioles last finished with a .500 record (and last made the playoffs) in 1997. For that matter, the last time the O’s finished with more than 70 wins was 2005 when Lee Mazzilli was the team’s manager. (Mazzilli’s son LJ was the Twins 9^th round pick ...

Updated 07-12-2012 at 07:03 AM by Seth Stohs

Tags: baltimore orioles, dan klein, denard span, dylan bundy, francisco liriano, glen perkins, jamey carroll, jared burton, jon schoop, josh willingham, manny machado, matt capps, minnesota twins, trade deadline

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Twins players scattered all over the place to enjoy their All Star breaks. Joe Mauer is the team’s lone representative in tonight’s All-Star game. On Monday night, it was the Tigers’ Prince Fielder who out-slugged Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista to win his second Home Run Derby. The Rochester Red Wings also began their All-Star break with no game on Monday. New Britain played an early afternoon game and with its completion, they are now on their All-Star break. Each of the other Twins affiliates played ...

Tags: aaron hicks, adam walker, bo altobelli, bryan haar, byron buxton, candido pimentel, chris colabello, chris herrmann, evan bigley, hudson boyd, john murphy, jorge fernandez, jorge polanco, josh burris, kelvin mention, kyle knudson, levi michael, logan darnell, matt capps, max kepler, melciades de la cruz, minnesota twins, nate hanson, ryan o'rourke, travis harrison

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Another week closer to the trade deadline, another week worth of rampant speculation and wild hopes for Twins fans; after several days of heated voting the fans chose to trade Matt Capps rather than keep him, stunning the blog-o-sphere...oh wait! Let's see what the fans picked and what they passed up.


Door #2 netted two votes and provides my personal favorite proof of idiotic trades made for "closers" Capps compares well with Ugueth [namesake of my first child boy OR

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Tags: justin morneau, let's make a deal, matt capps, terry ryan, trade scenarios

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Welcome back to everybody's favorite form of roster-modification: LET'S MAKE A DEAL! That's right, I pretend to be Wayne Brady, you pretend to be Terry Ryan dressed up like a giant Radish! (Also, you pick a trading partner for an expendable player on the Twins roster)

First, let's reveal what we came away with last week as we made a deal for Denard Span. Between the three comments on Twins Daily, the one comment here and the poll votes it winds up with 6 votes to keep Denard and 4 to ...

Updated 06-26-2012 at 12:43 PM by PeanutsFromHeaven

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Josh Willingham: Trade Bait?



[Originally published at Twins Fan From Afar]

Over the past few weeks, I have enjoyed reading various posts from other bloggers concerning the Twins' potential trade chips. Names like Denard Span, Matt Capps ...

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Jose Mijares doesn't look much thinner in 2012, but he has been much more effective.


[Originally published at Twins Fan From Afar]

I was somewhat surprised last winter when the Twins declined to offer portly lefty reliever Jose Mijares a ...

Tags: delmon young, glen perkins, joe mauer, jose mijares, matt capps

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