MINNEAPOLIS – The Twins placed reliever Jeff Hoffman on the 15-day injured list on Saturday due to right forearm inflammation, making room to activate shortstop Kaelen Culpepper (Minnesota's No. 3 prospect, No. 31 overall) from the IL. Culpepper missed the minimum 10 days due to a mild hamstring strain. Hoffman,

MINNEAPOLIS – Emmanuel Rodriguez is rapidly establishing himself as a must-watch player. The Twins rookie and No. 5 prospect has already shown his explosive ability at the plate with three homers in his first 13 big league games. On Friday, he showed what he can do in the field –

MINNEAPOLIS – It took about an inning, but the real Joe Ryan returned for his final start of the year on Friday night. Ryan turned in his best start in more than two months, bringing a strange, up-and-down but certainly memorable season to a close as the Twins beat the

MINNEAPOLIS -- For seven months, Pablo López has been a constant presence in the Twins’ clubhouse. Home or away, López has been there for and with his teammates, even though he hasn’t thrown a single pitch in anger all year. However, with two days left in the season, he’s planning

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SAN FRANCISCO -- It was far too early to worry, but, well, it didn’t feel great. Following a sensational start to his big league career, Walker Jenkins promptly fell into his first slump in the Majors. He boarded a flight to California last week sporting a batting average that started

SAN FRANCISCO -- When you make a move at the Trade Deadline, you’re just hoping it turns out like this. Taj Bradley was everything the Twins hoped he could be in his first full season with the club, and on Tuesday he brought his breakout year to a close in

SAN FRANCISCO – Aaron Sabato was resigned, if not discouraged. Or maybe, more accurately, he’d come to a place of acceptance. At the end of his sixth year in professional baseball, without ever having gotten The Call to the Major Leagues, Sabato had begun coming to terms with the fact

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MINNEAPOLIS -- On days like this, it’s very easy to see what Zebby Matthews could be. When Matthews is spotting fastballs at 97 miles per hour at the top of the strike zone, and sliders diving off the bottom outside corner, you wonder how anyone ever hits him. The right-hander

MINNEAPOLIS -- One of the bright spots of the second half of the Twins’ season will be sidelined for a while. Rookie shortstop Kaelen Culpepper has been placed on the 10-day injured list due to what the club is calling a mild left hamstring strain.

MINNEAPOLIS – With two weeks remaining in the season, the Twins’ lineup is limping a bit. Three regulars were unavailable for Monday night’s 8-3 loss to the Yankees, and at least one of them might be out for a while. Trevor Larnach left the clubhouse on Monday afternoon to receive

MINNEAPOLIS -- In the closest thing to a must-win game they’ve had all year, the Twins showed their trademark fight but just didn’t have enough. The Guardians rallied for three runs against Yoendrys Gómez in the top of the ninth to send Minnesota to a 5-2 defeat on Friday in

MINNEAPOLIS -- Byron Buxton’s season is over. Though it wasn’t a great surprise, it was still a disappointment for Buxton and the Twins to have it confirmed: the star outfielder will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his troublesome right hip on Sept. 18. The hope is that Buxton will be fully

It’s a big opportunity for the Guardians, and potentially a last stand for the Twins, as the American League Central rivals meet up for three games this weekend at Target Field. Minnesota (69-77) is in danger of falling out of the AL Wild Card race, while Cleveland (74-73) is trying

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DETROIT -- A couple of frustrating trends continued for Zebby Matthews and the Twins in a 7-2 loss to the Tigers on Wednesday at Comerica Park, the finale of a disappointing six-game road trip. Matthews’ woes in the first inning and on the road both popped up in the right-hander’s

DETROIT – This is how it was supposed to look. When the Twins added three pitchers at the Trade Deadline, they had nights almost exactly like Tuesday in mind. Dean Kremer pitched five strong innings, while A.J. Minter and Jeff Hoffman turned in key performances over the course of four

DETROIT -- Joe Ryan would’ve liked different results, and certainly would like a couple of pitches back. But it’s hard to view his first game back after missing a month due to a left glute strain as anything but encouraging. Ryan, activated from the injured list on Monday morning, pitched

CHICAGO -- The Twins on Monday activated Joe Ryan from the 15-day IL, who took the ball for his first Major League start in more than a month. Ryan, who'd been out since early August due to a strained left glute muscle, allowed three runs (two earned) on three hits

CHICAGO -- For days, if not weeks, the Twins had this 15-game stretch of the schedule circled. Five straight series against American League Central opponents, all teams that as of a couple of weeks ago were in contention, loomed as potentially season-defining. It is threatening to be exactly that, in

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CHICAGO – With the Twins searching for a spark, rookie Kaelen Culpepper provided it. Making his first career start in the No. 2 spot in the batting order, Culpepper singled, beat out a potential double play ball and doubled, scoring twice and driving in a run as Minnesota scratched out

CHICAGO – Nothing is written in ink just yet, but it is likely that Joe Ryan’s next start will be for the Twins in Detroit. Ryan threw a bullpen session Saturday prior to Minnesota’s game against the White Sox at Rate Field and felt good, clearing what is probably the

CHICAGO – Twins manager Derek Shelton acknowledged prior to the Twins' 4-1 loss to the White Sox on Friday that surgery is looking likely for Byron Buxton as the star outfielder looks to recover from a long, troublesome right hip impingement. But before that, Buxton still hopes to find a