Minnesota Twins

By Scott Merkin The breakout 2009 campaign for Jason Kubel, during which he was as valuable as any player in the Twins' lineup for the final month of the season, ended quietly and without much fanfare on Sunday night at the Metrodome. Kubel's bat loses steam in tough ALDS

By Aaron(noreply@blogger.com) At the end of the day the Twins simply need to improve, not because they lost a best-of-five series, but because they won 87 games in baseball's worst division after going 88-75 in 2008 and 79-83 in 2007. They need to surround Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, Jason Kubel, Denard Span, and Michael C...

By Scot It was telling that the “legend” who got the loudest applause during the ceremony was Joe Mauer, with perhaps Jason Kubel in at a close second. Despite how this day had been billed by the Twins, it wasn’t about the legends of Metrodome past, it was about the legends of the 2009 season. The boys o...

By Aaron(noreply@blogger.com) As has been the case for most of this decade, the Twins had the elite, top-end talent to be an excellent team and struggled mightily filling in the rest of the roster with capable role players. So for all the good Mauer, Morneau, Denard Span, Jason Kubel, and Michael Cuddyer did at the plate th...

Rookie Anthony Swarzak scattered four hits over seven innings, Jason Kubel homered and the Minnesota Twins hung on to beat Chicago 2-0 Saturday after the Cubs threatened in the ninth. Rich Harden was a tough-luck loser after missing about three weeks with a mid-back strain.

 MN by cmathewson on Jun 10, 2009 2:04 AM EDT 2 comments More photos » by Ben Margot - AP about : Minnesota Twins' Jason Kubel watches the flight of his three-run home run hit off Oakland Athletics' Santiago Casilla in the seventh inning of a ...

By Aaron(noreply@blogger.com) 2. Joe Mauer .436 AVG .519 OBP .845 SLG 3. Justin Morneau .348 AVG .426 OBP .657 SLG 4. Jason Kubel .322 AVG .374 OBP .532 SLGHere's hoping that Ron Gardenhire can resist the urge to fix what isn't broken by jamming Alexi Casilla or Matt Tolbert in there.

By noreply@blogger.com (Nick N.) STARTERS C: Joe Mauer 1B: Justin Morneau 2B: Alexi Casilla 3B: Brian Buscher SS: Nick Punto LF: Denard Span CF: Carlos Gomez RF: Michael Cuddyer DH: Jason Kubel BENCH C: Mike Redmond IF: Brendan Harris IF: Matt Tolbert OF: Delmon Young

By Leslie Monteiro Carlos Gomez and Alexi Casilla are on base often with Joe Mauer driving them home. Justin Morneau is a threat when he is at the plate. Jason Kubel, Michael Cuddyer, Brian Buscher, and Delmon Young are hitting well. Nick Punto, Denard Span, and Brendan Harris have gotten into the act also.

By Leslie Monteiro Everyone in the lineup is hitting the ball right now. The Twins are not just relying on Justin Morneau and Joe Mauer to win games. It’s everybody for the most part. Guys like Alexi Casilla, Brendan Harris, Brian Buscher, Michael Cuddyer, Jason Kubel, Delmon Young and Craig Monroe are contrib...