According to this rumor, the Toronto Blue Jays want a Eastern League team in Ottawa. To do this they want to force the Binghamton Mets to move and the New Britain Rock Cats would become the New York Mets affiliate which would leave the Twins in New Hampshire Fisher Cats territory, or not since the rumor has been shot down. But it makes you think since the Twins may have to sign two new affiliation contracts for 2013, in the worst case scenario, given that our contract with the Rochester Red Wings is also due to end.

Basically the historical scorecard (as of 2/9/2012) is Owners: 292; Players: 215.

The Odds don't look good for Alexi Casilla. But as what I said in Jesse's article on the subject, his case is more unique than others due to injuries to himself and the team, and having to play with Nishi.

In the glad they are not us category, the Baltimore Orioles traded Opening day starter Jeremy Guthrie to the Colorado Rockies for a pitcher slightly younger than him and a bullpen arm in his mid 30's. Everybody can read the link for the details, but here is my take. It is simply the type of deal that would be done by Bill Smith and will hurt the Orioles a lot more than it will hurt the Rockies. Basically, what this comes down to is the fact that Baltimore will either lose the team to another city or Peter Angelos will lose the franchise, hopefully to Cal Ripken.

According to Jeff Passan, the "Twins Way" has evolved from having good offense and defense to being the bloated, middle age actress or the young starlet who is drugged up and is always late to movie shoots.

I'm Twinkie Town member Jessy S. I am currently doing a fan loving exercise that pits the best of the other four AL Central teams against the Detroit Tigers in a five game series. This was born from a AL Central roster put together by SBNation user kjmick24. I'll post the full rosters and the results of all other games at Twinkie Town. The link takes you to a full game one recap.

I'm Twinkie Town member Jessy S. I am currently doing a fan loving exercise that pits the best of the other four AL Central teams against the Detroit Tigers in a five game series. This was born from a AL Central roster put together by SBNation user kjmick24. I'll post the full rosters and the results of all other games at Twinkie Town. The link takes you to a full game one recap.

I'm Twinkie Town member Jessy S. I am currently doing a fan loving exercise that pits the best of the other four AL Central teams against the Detroit Tigers in a five game series. This was born from a AL Central roster put together by SBNation user kjmick24. I'll post the full rosters and the results of all other games at Twinkie Town. The link takes you to a full game one recap.

I'm Twinkie Town member Jessy S. I am currently doing a fan loving exercise that pits the best of the other four AL Central teams against the Detroit Tigers in a five game series. This was born from a AL Central roster put together by SBNation user kjmick24. I'll post the full rosters and the results of all other games at Twinkie Town. The link takes you to a full game one recap.

From SBNation's MLB Daily Dish comes the complete organizational chart of the Minnesota Twins. It is a work in progress, but will help us when rosterbating during the year.

And no, it isn't the Houston Astros. It is the independent Lake County Illinois Fielders, who folded after the 2011 season. They simply had lousy credit, didn't have a place to play within the city of Zion, Illinois, and had to start the season on a 36 day road trip which included two separate trips to Hawaii. This isn't bad for an operation that was co-owned by Kevin Costner, had their front office in a Mall, and had their manager, several players, and a radio announcer quit in mid season because they didn't get paid.

I found this recently while having fun with baseball reference. It is a new project by them and allows the user to search for anything related to the game such as Kirby Puckett game winning home runs and Grand Slams hit by Jason Kubel. It also includes a full database of games played around the league and includes every game played by the Twins dating back to the first ever game for the franchise in New York in 1961.

Just a fun post from the guys at MLB Trade Rumors. They touch on the recent trend of guys like Albert Pujols stating that a "Mystery Team" has a good contract offer, for leverage in negotiations. The list includes past and current members of the Minnesota Twins.

The deal is supposed to be for one year. With a certain Hunter on the club, maybe the Angels can make it a holy trinity by signing Jason Kubel. However, one would have to imagine the convo between him and Joe Mauer when Kubel is at the plate.

Granted the link is to a post talking about the Miami Marlins and Oakland A's, but the key is outfielders. In this case, Oakland is looking for young outfielders and Trevor Plouffe and/or Ben Revere might be enough for Billy Beane to pull the trigger. Gio Gonzalez is a lefty pitcher with great upside in the fact he is the staff ace and could perform the same or better at Target Field. At the same time, Oakland wants young outfielders and Plouffe and/or Revere would likely be a good addition to their ballclub.

It is great fun for picking games and seeing how it affects the playoff picture. My current scenario could likely be how the NFC East turns out. Basically I have the Cowboys going 3-4 the final seven weeks of the season headed to New Orleans as the 6th seed.

AFC Seeds
1. Kansas City
2. Cincinnati
3. Buffalo
4. Tennessee
5. Miami
6. Oakland

NFC
1. Green Bay
2. San Francisco
3. New Orleans
4. Philadelphia
5. Washington
6. Dallas

Now if you excuse me, I will do a scenario where Green Bay and San Francisco don't make the playoffs. (Might be hard to do though.)

Seriously though, this is a silly question because we all know that Scott Boras is a agent. But, here are two names linked to the Twins as far as Backup Catcher is concerned. They could go cheaply and Scott knows it. They are Jason Varitek, and Ivan Rodriguez. Jesse might have something on this development later today, for now here is the original source.

According to SBNation's own Baseball Nation, Wilson Ramos is still alive. There is no word on if there is a ransom though. Personally, I think this might be a case of terror against the United States and Ramos is a good target because he plays for a team based in our nation's capital. Hopefully there is much less to this story, this is that speculation on my part, and he remains in good condition.