The sour news Thursday morning for former Twins closer Joe Nathan -- a second round of Tommy John surgery -- made me realize that as diffic...

Jose Mjares: Going to Kansas City About a week ago, the Twins, who have had the sometimes dubious pleasures of having Jose Mijares on th...

The Twins opened Monday with a full 40-man roster. They ended it with just 37 players. Jim Hoey walked 13 and struck out 14 in 24.2 ...

Dick-N-Bert were talking during the eighth inning about Jose Mijares' struggles this season, a logical topic since Mijares was pitching ...

Prince Fielder and Joe Mauer react to Fielder"s game-winning double in the seventh inning Friday. It was a pretty lousy weekend in ...

With the confluence Thursday of a furlough day for me, a Twin Cities meeting for my wife and a noon Twins game with available tickets, I wen...

On Sunday I opined here that the serious competition for bullpen jobs this spring boils down to 10 guys. Later that day the Associated Pre...

In today's game, calling somebody a "relief pitcher" is akin to calling somebody an infielder. A shortstop is not a first base...

Twins knees to know: Jose Mijares goes on the 15-day disabled list with his knee injury. I've seen nothing on whether he needs surgery...

Here's how the 45 responses to last week's poll — on which current pitcher is most likely to win 300 games — broke down. The most po...

Last week's print column pondered the playing characteristics of Target Field and warned against jumping to conclusions. A fresh case i...

Game story here Box score here The power is most definitely on. Two-run homer for Brendan Harris. Three-run shot by Jim Thome. Three-run bom...

Tragic number: Still 2. The cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die ... for at least another day. A weird game in...

A colleague speculated during Friday night's game that Kevin Slowey (left) must be hurt. And sure enough, the Twins put him on the disa...

The Twins today swapped out lefty relievers , recalling Brian Duensing (left) from Rochester and outrighting Sean Henn. Duensing opened the ...

* That was the very definition of pitching efficiency Friday from Jose Mijares: One pitch, two outs. Mijares hadn't pitched in a week. ...

The Greg McMichael rule lives, and R.A. Dickey (left) is abiding by it. The McMichael rule — dubbed for the pitcher who, in 1993, rose fr...

A Jim Souhan column in Friday's Minneapolis paper bemoaned the lack of small-ball from the Twins, and cited as evidence that this is a ...