The Twins Almanac for May 18 is short and sweet, featuring career highlights by Rod Carew and Miguel Sanó, the birthdays of two players with interesting footnotes in Twins history, and a noteworthy game played in Minnesota on this date in 1865!
The Minnesota Players Project continues to grow, as we're now well over 50 players in the database. Let's look at some of the newest additions.
Tony O! Harmon Killebrew Kirby Puckett Rod Carew Tony Oliva Ladies and gentlemen, we have an official Minnesota Twins Mount Rushmore. Stand and stare, argue over placement, and enjoy an ice cream cone in its presence before heading to Bear Country USA or Deadwood.
Rodney Cline Carew Harmon Killebrew Kirby Puckett Rod Carew After the first two rounds of this series produced the expected Killebrew & Puckett top two, I thought the bronze medal position would be pretty wide open.
Royce Lewis has a big fan in one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, Rod Carew. After Lewis tied last night's game against the Guardians with a two-run homer to deep center in the eighth inning, Carew tweeted: "I've said it before.
It takes more than one great player to win a championship. These all-time great MLB players had their fair share of personal accomplishments but were never able to win a World Series.
Royce Lewis has played just 15 games in the majors since the Minnesota Twins made him the No. 1 overall pick of the 2017 draft. However, if his start to the 2023 season is any indication, he has a flair for the dramatic.
Carew takes aim at Manfred. Jason Gay, a very funny guy who writes sports for the Wall Street Journal, recently published a very thought-provoking interview with Hall of Fame great Rod Carew.
Just about everyone on the Los Angeles Angels got involved in a 12-0 offensive explosion against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night. Seven of the nine starters got at least one hit, and six of nine posted at least one RBI.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Angels officially announced that owner, Arte Moreno, would begin exploring a possible sale of the franchise. This news seemed to please both fans and former players.
“Well this is happy news. I have renewed hope that my relationship with the Angels organization can be fully restored,” Carew wrote.
If you think hitting .300 doesn't have a place in modern MLB, you need to watch the Twins' breakout star right now.
It’s time to start talking about it. We’re over 60 games into the 2022 Major League Baseball season and the Minnesota Twins currently have a contender for the batting title.
Both are Minnesota Twins legends. Both are Hall of Famers. But who was better: Rod Carew or Kirby Puckett?
There have been plenty of great players in the history of the Minnesota Twins. From Killebrew to Buxton and many in-between, it is tough to narrow it down to the top twelve players in the history of the Twins.
Hall of Famers Rod Carew, Fergie Jenkins, Mike Schmidt and Ozzie Smith are among the 16 voters on the Hall of Fame's Golden Days Era Committee.
Once every four years do we see Feb. 29 on our calendars. In honor of this uncommon occurrence, we’ve found 29 athletes who wore No. 29 during their careers.
Can you name the athletes featured in the following rap lyrics?
A player in MLB has had 230 or more hits in a single season only 40 times. How many of them can you name?
There are 28 members of the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame. How many of them can you name?Note: Some members are associated with the team in unique ways
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