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All of the articles written by Andrew Mahlke for his school newspaper, CSB/SJU's "The Record".
A lot of Twins fans are angered by the front office "refusing to spend big money". The problem doesn't lie in not spending, as we see yet another phenomenal season by the penny-pinching Tampa Bay Rays. In 2021, the Twins gave J.A. Happ a one-year deal for $8MM.
Back in March, Matthew Trueblood wrote an excellent article on Twins Daily about what a potential Byron Buxton extension would look like. Now, obviously this was before Buxton's phenomenal (injury plagued, but still phenomenal) 2021 campaign. After the season Buxton had, his value for a future ex...
Who is Jharel Cotton? Earlier this week, Cody Christie wrote an article about Three Twins Pitchers Due to Bounce Back. Today I will dive deeper into one of those three, Jharel Cotton. Since being drafted by the Dodgers in 2012, Jharel Cotton has made his way around Major League Baseball.
In the first half of the 2021 season, Sanó hit .196/.279/.426 (.705) while hitting 15 home runs, but he struck out 36 percent of the time. His 36% strikeout rate in the first half was the third highest in all of MLB (min. 200 plate appearances).
In 2021, 10 Twins made their Major League debuts with various amounts of success. Nonetheless, a lot of these guys could play major roles in contributing to the future success of the team. Let's see how they did. Alex Kirilloff, OF/1B Even though Alex Kirilloff played a game in the playoffs in 20...
It is no secret that the Twins had a disappointing 2021 season. We had our positives, like a great season from Jorge Polanco and we continued to see that when Byron Buxton is on the field he has the potential to be the best player in baseball.
This discrepancy is beautifully highlighted in Moneyball when Brad Pitt is talking with his scouts. "There are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there's 50 feet of crap, and then there's us. It's an unfair game," said Pitt. When the Twins last won the World Series in 1991, the Total MLB P...
I explained my process of how I chose these players in the first part of this trilogy, so if you didn't read that, I recommend reading this so this article will make more sense. Taking all of the position player seasons over 4 WAR, I found salary data for 86 players.
On Monday, Dave St. Peter was kind enough to speak about his rapid ascension through the Twins front office and his career at Saint John's University in Collegeville, MN. Now, this was a very cool opportunity. St. Peter's late father, Dom, was a 1954 graduate of Saint John's, making this opportun...