There have been enough games now that the Retrosheet website has posted their "ballpark firsts" for Target Field.

Here is the link: http://www.retrosheet.org/ballparks/target_field.htm

Most of the events are stuff we remember from the first game, but a few things waited for later in the homestand.

There are still three blanks.  Grand Slam, Inside the park home run, and no-hitter.

They do firsts and lasts for all the parks.  That information is here: http://www.retrosheet.org/ballparks/park_firsts.htm

Baseball-reference.com did their postseason update today.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3276

The most entertaining part of the update is the sim scores and age-based sim scores are now updated through the end of 2009.  Most are familiar with Sim Scores.  They are a Bill James invention but they were purposely designed to mimic HOF induction behavior circa 1990 or so.  Because of that, they don't include park/era effect and tend to rely mainly on the more traditional counting stats.  His thinking at the time was that the BBWAA/VC didn't incorporate those things.  So, sometimes you get some quirky comps, but even the quirky comps can be fun and even a bit telling (e.g. Jason Tyner's comps are predominantly dead-ball era players).

Caveats aside, here are the latest comps for our Twins:

• Joe Mauer (26) -> Robinson Cano
• Justin Morneau (28) -> Paul Konerko
• Nick Punto (31) -> Frank O'Rourke
• Orlando Carbrera (34) -> Julio Franco
• Joe Crede (31) -> Kelly Gruber
• Delmon Young (23) -> Carlos May
• Carlos Gomez (23) -> Curt Welch
• Michael Cuddyer (30) -> Milton Bradley
• Jason Kubel (27) -> Jason Giambi
• Denard Span (25) -> Homer Summa
• Brendan Harris (28) -> Sandy Alomar, Jr.
• JJ Hardy (26) -> Miguel Tejada

• Nick Blackburn (27) -> Rheal Cormier
• Scott Baker (27) -> Scott Bankhead
• Francisco Liriano (25) -> Odalis Perez
• Glen Perkins (26) -> Joe Saunders
• Kevin Slowey (25) -> Edinson Volquez
• Carl Pavano (33) -> Ramon Ortiz
• Joe Nathan (34) -> Jeff Montgomery