ANAHEIM -- If momentum in baseball is only as good as that day’s starting pitcher, the Twins, fresh off a four-game sweep of the White Sox, were in a good spot Friday with Bailey Ober set to go. Minnesota’s most consistent starter showed that not even a stomach bug could

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MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins never really need any excuse to mess with Edouard Julien, who is often graciously the butt of jokes in the clubhouse. But manager Rocco Baldelli just decided to stir the pot a bit earlier this week, when he moved Julien down a slot from his customary

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MINNEAPOLIS -- The small steps forward keep coming for the Minnesota offense. The first step was to get a blowout in the books -- and that happened in Game 1 of the Twins' series against the White Sox. The next step was to claw back for a last-second comeback victory

Three years ago, Charlie Condon attracted zero interest from pro scouts or NCAA Division I baseball programs. He wound up at Georgia as a preferred walk-on and redshirted during his first season in Athens. Now he's the best prospect in the 2024 Draft and sits atop MLB Pipeline's updated and

MINNEAPOLIS -- It took a while for Byron Buxton to finally go deep this season, but when he did, he really made it count. The Twins’ offense has been late-arriving this season in the big picture, to say the least, and that was the case on a smaller scale on

MINNEAPOLIS -- Needless to say, the injury situation up in Minneapolis has had a significant impact on the Twins thus far, with early issues for Royce Lewis, Carlos Correa, Jhoan Duran, Caleb Thielbar and Justin Topa playing some role in the Twins’ scuffling start to the season. It’s been equally

There are a kajillion reasons to love baseball -- especially Minor League Baseball. The bobblehead, which has been greeted with an enthusiastic "Yes" from baseball fans at least since MLB put out a set featuring the likes of Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays in 1960, combines many of

MINNEAPOLIS -- Believe it or not, the Twins made it 20 games and nearly a month into the season before facing a team that currently sits below .500 in the standings -- and if they’re going to turn their season around, they’ve got to take full advantage of this upcoming

MINNEAPOLIS -- The problem with Louie Varland for much of this season had been that he was throwing too many hittable strikes in two-strike counts. The problem on Sunday was that he was no longer throwing strikes at all. The slumping Twins are now losers of six of their last

MINNEAPOLIS -- At a certain point as Bennett Fisk continued his youth baseball career, he needed to push down on the top of his batting helmet and rock it forward over his forehead just so that he could meet the safety standards enforced by the umpires at his games. There

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MINNEAPOLIS -- Bailey Ober's first start of the season might have felt like a bad dream. But in his last three starts, Ober has been a nightmare for opposing hitters. Ober pitched six dazzling innings on Saturday and the Twins did just enough at the plate to beat the Tigers,

MINNEAPOLIS -- When things are going well for a baseball team, everything seems to be clicking. The pitchers are sharp, the fielding is sound and the hitting is timely. But things haven’t been going well for the Twins of late, and Friday night provided another example of how failing to

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BALTIMORE -- Though third-base coach Tommy Watkins claimed that the Twins’ offensive struggles weren’t on his mind when he made an aggressive send home of Manuel Margot in the seventh inning on Wednesday, it was still representative of the urgency that already continues to mount for this team. Absolutely nothing

BALTIMORE -- When 8-year-old Camden Cleveland plays baseball, he wears uniform No. 25 on his back in honor of his favorite player, Byron Buxton -- so Tuesday was a surreal day when he got the opportunity to have Buxton sign a baseball for him. But surreal turned to devastating when,

We've already seen several noteworthy callups in this young season. The biggest came when the Orioles promoted the best prospect in baseball, Jackson Holliday, on April 10. The Dodgers summoned fellow Top 100 prospect Andy Pages on Tuesday to bolster their outfield. When Justin Steele strained a hamstring on Opening

BALTIMORE -- Byron Buxton dazzling with a highlight-reel grab at the center-field wall is a familiar -- and welcome -- sight to the baseball world, and it’s far from the first time since he’s made this kind of robbery. But the snag he made to deprive Ryan O’Hearn of extra

BALTIMORE -- Matt Wallner thought he’d finally found something last Wednesday, when he was out of the lineup against Dodgers right-hander Bobby Miller and spent the game inside, foam rolling and stretching his hips for around two hours -- just to get them as loose as he could. When he

BALTIMORE -- Byron Buxton was able to man center field at Camden Yards on Monday night because of the barrier broken by Jackie Robinson 77 years ago today, so in honor of MLB’s annual celebration of Jackie Robinson Day, Buxton took Jackie out to center with him. The Twins’ center

BALTIMORE -- Louie Varland collapsed to a half-crouch as his head whipped around and watched the ball spring off Cedric Mullins’ bat -- and he couldn’t bring himself to take his eye off it as it soared toward the foul pole then tucked itself into the seats, fair. Varland snapped