Sports Collectors Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
The auction to benefit a former big leaguer diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor was a big enough hit that another one is coming.
MLB (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Four Twins players -- Justin Morneau, Joe Mauer, Joe Nathan and Michael Cuddyer -- along with Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire, are up for TYIB Award honors. Voting ends on Monday.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Welcome to this year's banquet. If you will all bow your heads to summon the spirit of this year's most distinguished invitee.
RandBall (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
The pecking order right now is fairly well established when it comes to superstar players playing for local sports teams. Adrian Peterson. Joe Mauer. Justin Morneau. Marian Gaborik (kind of, at least when he’s healthy). Then there is the next tier that is already established enough to the point that you could at least consider [...]
On the Mets beat (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... Jeff Kent, Jose Reyes, Miguel Tejada, Carlos Quentin, Mark Belhorn, John Smoltz, Brad Ausmus, Joe Nathan, Adrian Beltre, and Roy Oswalt are among over 100 baseball players donating to an online memorabilia auction to be held this week to benefit 33-year-old Ricky Stone, relief pitcher for the Astros (2001-2004), Padres (2004), and Reds (2005, 2007), who was stricken with a malignant brain...
StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... from head-to-head games meaning so much to head-to-head games meaning nothing," Twins reliever Joe Nathan said before the playoff game.MLB staff is drafting a proposal for the GMs to consider next month when they gather at the winter meetings in Las Vegas, according to Jimmie Lee Solomon, executive vice president of baseball operations in the commissioner's office. Head-to-head record between...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... from head-to-head games meaning so much to head-to-head games meaning nothing," Twins reliever Joe Nathan said before the playoff game.MLB staff is drafting a proposal for the GMs to consider next month when they gather at the winter meetings in Las Vegas, according to Jimmie Lee Solomon, executive vice president of baseball operations in the commissioner's office. Head-to-head record between...
The Ladies... love the Olympics (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... - what a year for a rookie! How cute - celebrating with his parents after being drafted. Manager - Joe Maddon - I guess I’m a sucker for distinguished older men. And he knows how to support his team. Closer - Joe Nathan - Blatent homerism, I know. Setup - Scot Shields Defense - Joe Mauer For those of you who love eye black Performance - Carlos Delgado - On June 27, 2008 he had a 9 RBI game...
RandBall (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
The Huntdown Name: J.C. Romero Nickname: Rock Claim to Fame, Minnesota: an integral part of the early-to-mid ‘00s Twins bullpen, Romero was the power-throwing, 8th-inning lefty that set up Eddie Guardado and Joe Nathan. Although I don’t have access to the Strib’s archives, I’m reasonably certain that every article about Romero while he was with the Twins [...]
Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
... 4.74 23 Chad Gaudin 4.76 34 Jon Garland 4.79 39 Mark Hendrickson 4.79 34 Aaron Heilman 4.81 32 Joe Nathan 4.83 30 Ryan Madson 4.84 25 Mark Lowe 4.95 20 B.J. Ryan 5.05 20 Zach Miner 5.1 21 Ron Villone 5.16 31 Josh Johnson Again, some good names and some guy you go “oh, yeah, him.” I’m not sure what this “nibble number” tells us, but I was curious and thought I’d share. What do you think it...
