https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/page/85/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/72-grossman-and-plouffe-out-of-lineup-d-santana-in-lf/Greetings from Target Field, where it's family day. There's pictures of the players and their spouses, significant others and children displayed on the big board.   Robbie Grossman and Trevor Plouffe are out of the lineup today. Grossman has come back to earth, hitting .269/.399/.478 after his re...806Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/71-ian-desmonds-10th-inning-home-run-dooms-twins-in-3-2-loss/A 10th-inning home run for Ian Desmond provided the difference as the Texas Rangers won their 52nd game of the year while handing the Minnesota Twins their 54th loss at Target Field Friday night. The home run, Desmond’s 15th which traveled an estimated 418 feet to right-center, came against Twins...805Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/71-terry-ryan-on-sanos-position-parks-demotion-and-keplers-emergence/Terry Ryan addressed the media from the Target Field dining room prior to Friday's game on a number of topics, ranging from Max Kepler’s maturation as a big leaguer, Miguel Sano’s role while up with the big club and why Byung Ho Park can work on while at Triple-A Rochester.   Here’s a sampling of...804Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/71-sano-outfield-experiment-ends-team-gets-back-to-basics-park-sent-to-rochester/It’s sunny and delightful here at Target Field as the Twins open up a weekend set against the Texas Rangers. The Rangers come in with an MLB-best 51 wins, and have cruised to 22 wins in their last 30 games. They’ll send left hander Martin Perez to the mound to counter Ervin Santana for the Twins,...803Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/countdown-to-kato-who-starts-at-cb/Countdown to ‘Kato: 27 days   It’s July! Minnesota Vikings training camp starts within the month, so it’s time to get you primed for what is probably the second-to-last training camp ever in Mankato.   Each weekday for the rest of July leading up to when the team reports on the 28th, I’ll be add...801Fri, 01 Jul 2016 12:25:40 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wild-signs-eric-staal-alex-stalock/According to Michael Russo of the Star Tribune and other sources, the Minnesota Wild have signed former Carolina Hurricanes captain Eric Staal to a three-year, $10.5 million contract.     Staal, 31, is from Thunder Bay, Ontario, and has scored 325 goals and 781 points in 929 games. He won a...800Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/twins-reinstate-sano-option-park/The Minnesota Twins announced today that they have returned Miguel Sano from his rehab assignment and reinstated him from the 15-day disabled list.  Sano appeared in eight games on rehab assignment for Triple-A Rochester, hitting .160 (4-for-25) with one double, two home runs and five walks. To...799Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:53:41 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/630-twins-rally-but-lose-to-white-sox-6-5/Twice the Minnesota Twins came back from deficits to tie the game, but the Chicago White Sox were able to emerge from this rubber match with a 6-5 victory.   Robbie Grossman and Brian Dozier hit back-to-back home runs to come back from a 2-0 hole in the fourth inning, only to see starter Tommy Mi...797Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wild-re-signs-forward-jason-zucker-to-a-two-year-contract/Minnesota Wild General Manager Chuck Fletcher today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has re-signed restricted free agent Jason Zucker (pronounced ZOOK-ER) to a two-year, $4 million contract worth $2 million in both 2016-17 and 2017-18.   Zucker, 24 (1/16/92), tallied 23 points (13-...790Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/changes-are-coming-for-the-minnesota-twins-and-thats-a-good-thing/Development usually takes place before you get here for the most part, but we’re in a position now where we have to consider development to some degree up here.   -- Twins manager Paul Molitor   No, we’re not talking about changes to the front office here -- not yet -- although that’s not out of...787Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:30:38 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/timberwolves-lynx-announce-new-limited-partners/The Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx today announced new minority team owners and limited partners in Lizhang (John) Jiang, founder and chairman of Shanghai Double-Edged Sports Company in China, and Meyer Orbach, chairman of the Orbach Group in New York City. Mr. Jiang will become the first Chinese...785Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/628-dozier-homers-twice-twins-blank-white-sox-4-0/Brian Dozier homered twice and Kyle Gibson gave up only five hits and no runs in 7.0 innings, picking up his first win of the season in a 4-0 shutout of the Chicago White Sox.   “I don’t worry about [personal] wins,” Gibson told the Star Tribune. “For me, it’s keeping the team in the game, and I...784Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-lynx-waive-bashaara-graves/The Minnesota Lynx yesterday announced the team has waived Bashaara Graves. The 6-2 forward from Tennessee was drafted by the Lynx with the 22nd overall pick in the 2016 WNBA Draft and signed on Apr. 19. Graves averaged 0.5 ppg, 0.4 rpg and 0.3 apg in eight games with the Lynx this season...783Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/yards-above-expectation-adjusting-running-back-yards-for-situation/I recently wrote a piece on how Jerick McKinnon gets unfairly set into a particular role because of his size—a trait that doesn't even correlate to the role he supposedly can't fill. McKinnon's size falls well within the range of players who can fulfill every-down roles, and we can confidently say...781Wed, 29 Jun 2016 08:55:01 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/627-twins-hit-six-home-runs-beat-yankees-7-1/On a day that the Minnesota Twins offense scored all of its runs on six home runs, five of them solo shots, starter Tyler Duffey was able to go 8.0 innings, and only gave up one run -- a solo shot to Mark Teixeira.   Still, Duffey left the mound upset that he couldn't complete the shutout.   “Th...778Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/forever-a-family-man-the-story-of-mike-zimmer/Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Daniel House of Vikings Corner. It's part of the #MoreThanWords campaign raising funds for The Mike Zimmer Foundation. With over $8,000 raised ($10,000 original goal) and deadline extended until August 9th, there's no reason why we can't smash donation reco...776Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/625-yankees-beat-twins-2-1-after-another-escobar-error/Another Eduardo Escobar error, his third so far this series, and another strong performance by the New York Yankees bullpen results in a 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins.   Escobar booted a potential inning-ending double-play ball in the eighth inning, allowing former Twins outfielder Aaron H...775Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/624-twins-commit-three-errors-fall-to-yankees-5-3/The Minnesota Twins held leads in the third and fourth innings, but promptly gave them away on errors by Eduardo Escobar, Robbie Grossman and Joe Mauer. Two of the errors resulted in three unearned runs.   “There has been a concerning pattern of allowing the other team to come back and score. We...773Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wild-selects-luke-kunin-in-first-round-of-2016-nhl-entry-draft/The Minnesota Wild selected center Luke Kunin (pronounced KUHN-in) with the 15th overall pick in the first round of the 2016 NHL Entry Draft tonight at First Niagara Center in Buffalo, N.Y. "Luke is a versatile, two-way forward that can play center and wing," said Assistant General Manager Brent...771Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-wild-buys-out-final-year-of-thomas-vaneks-contract/Minnesota Wild General Manager Chuck Fletcher today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has bought out the final year of forward Thomas Vanek’s contract. “In order to give our team more salary cap flexibility we needed to make this difficult decision,” said Fletcher. “We thank Thomas...770Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/charles-buggs-the-last-link-to-tubby-smith-becomes-latest-gopher-to-transfer/When Richard Pitino was given control of the Gophers basketball team in the spring of 2013, he inherited a promising group of upperclassmen from previous coach Tubby Smith that included Andre Hollins, Austin Hollins, Mo Walker and Elliott Eliason. After two years in which the Gophers won an NIT ti...769Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/twins-trade-arcia-to-tampa-bay-rays/The Minnesota Twins announced today that they have traded outfielder Oswaldo Arcia to the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for a player to be named later or cash.  Arcia was designated for release or assignment on June 16.   Originally signed by the Twins in 2007, Arcia played in parts of four seasons...768Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/quotes-and-notes-from-kris-dunns-introductory-presser/The Minnesota Timberwolves today held an introductory press conference for Kris Dunn, the fifth player selected in the 2016 NBA Draft. Below are a few quotes from Dunn, as well as Timberwolves president-coach Tom Thibodeau and general manager Scott Layden.   Thibodeau: “We want to welcome Kr...767Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/timberwolves-select-guard-kris-dunn-with-the-fifth-overall-pick-in-the-2016-nba-draft/The Minnesota Timberwolves tonight selected guard Kris Dunn from Providence with the fifth overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft.   Dunn, a 6-4 guard, played three-plus seasons at Providence – he was a medical redshirt in 2013-14 after appearing in four games. For his career, he averaged 12.8 points...764Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-minnesota-timberwolves-have-drafted-kris-dunn-but-the-drama-is-far-from-over/On a night where there was calm before the storm, in many ways it is a good things for basketball fans in Minnesota that the Timberwolves were part of the madness.   In truth, there were no right answers Thursday night, but make no mistake, there are decisions to be made. As of this posting, the...763Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000