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The 2026 Rawlings Gold Glove Award finalists were announced on Wednesday, with the winners set to be unveiled on ESPN on Sunday, Nov. 1. Each league has three finalists at each position, including the utility spot, which was awarded for the first time in 2022.

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins’ first order of offseason business is done. Minnesota announced Wednesday that it has hired Brian Reith to be the club’s new Major League pitching coach. Reith, 48, comes from the Rays' organization, where he spent the past five seasons as the pitching coach for Triple-A Durham.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Last week, we took a look at five big questions surrounding the Twins as Hot Stove season approaches. Now it’s time to get a little more granular. There’s a real chance the Twins could be a legitimate contender next year, with development in the right places and some

The most important thing for prospects is development: learning how to be a professional, acquiring new skills, sharpening tools or pitches. There often can be bumps in the road along the path to the big leagues, and it's important to note that performance and production in the moment isn't necessarily

The 34th annual Arizona Fall League season is underway, and you can watch top prospects from all 30 MLB organizations throughout October and November as AFL matchups are once again streaming for free on both MLB.com (here and on the AFL site) and MLB.TV. All but five games of the

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to reflect the team’s latest transactions and any injury updates. As a reminder, players can remain on the 60-day IL through the World Series, after which teams must account for those players on their 40-man roster.

The Minnesota Twins today announced that Major League Baseball has selected the Twins and the Minnesota Twins Community Fund’s “Girls Belong in Baseball” initiative as a finalist for the prestigious Allan H. Selig Award for Philanthropic Excellence, MLB’s highest team honor. Fans can vote online from today (Friday, October 9)

The Arizona Fall League presents an opportunity for players who missed significant time due to injury to get more reps. It also provides a chance for teams to look at some of their prospects for six more weeks before deciding whether to add them to their 40-man roster. Organizations have

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The Twins on Wednesday announced the recipients of the Diamond Awards, their annual awards for the 2026 season, based on voting conducted by the Twin Cities Chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America and the Minnesota Twins Community Fund Board of Directors. Utility player Kody Clemens is the winner

Last week, MLB Pipeline revealed its selections for Minor League Hitting Prospect of the Year and Minor League Pitching Prospect of the Year during the 2026 MiLB Awards Show on MLB Network. Brewers corner infielder Andrew Fischer won hitting honors after swatting 48 homers, the most in the Minors since

The Minor League playoffs have been completed. There are only a handful of players with prospect eligibility remaining left in the Major League postseason, and there will be fewer with each passing round. Time for us in prospectdom to go into offseason mode? Not so fast, friends. The Arizona Fall

MINNEAPOLIS – The Twins held a year-end news conference on Tuesday with manager Derek Shelton, general manager Jeremy Zoll and chairman Tom Pohlad. The three addressed a wide range of topics from the roster to the coaching staff to the front office. Here are five takeaways from the session. Pohlad

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- For a while, it looked like Yasser Mercedes had become a full-time resident of Fort Myers, Florida. It’s true that most young prospects coming through the Twins system are bound to spend considerable time in the southwest Florida spot, given it is the organization’s Spring Training facility.

Greetings from the desert! I'm out in Arizona with the start of another exciting Arizona Fall League campaign coming with three games here on Saturday. We’ll have plenty of coverage, from Opening Day to the Championship Game on November 14, so come back early and often. Since I'm preparing to

MINNEAPOLIS – The Twins are overhauling their pitching department. The club announced Monday that pitching coach Pete Maki and assistant pitching coach Luis Ramirez will not return to the coaching staff in 2027. Maki and Ramirez were two of the few coaches that were retained when manager Derek Shelton replaced

MINNEAPOLIS -- It was a fitting finish for Ryan Jeffers, if it was indeed the finish. The longtime Twins catcher rapped out two hits and reached base three times, catching all nine innings Sunday, as Minnesota ended the 2026 season with a 6-4 win against the Rangers. Jeffers will be

MINNEAPOLIS -- As the offseason dawns, Byron Buxton finds himself in a position he wishes were less familiar: beginning rehabilitation from an injury. Buxton underwent surgery earlier this month to repair an impingement in his right hip. He said he began physical therapy the very next day, but there’s still

Action in the Arizona Fall League kicked off over the weekend with a full slate of games, with big names already turning heads. While a lot of attention is understandably given to the high-profile prospects -- the late additions of Sebastian Walcott, Aidan Miller and Angeibel Gomez created some fun

MINNEAPOLIS – This wasn’t the way Bailey Ober wanted to go into a winter of uncertainty. Ober capped a tumultuous season with a disappointing final start on Saturday, allowing six runs on 10 hits over five innings as the Twins fell to the Rangers, 6-2, in their second-to-last game of

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 – 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