https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/page/120/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wolves-could-have-had-a-shot-at-the-conference-finals/The 2022-23 season was filled with a slew of what-ifs for the Minnesota Timberwolves. What if Karl-Anthony Towns never got injured? What if the Timberwolves never traded for Rudy Gobert? And what if D'Angelo Russell remained with the Wolves for the entire season? All those and more were questions...16425Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/will-this-season-be-kene-nwangwus-last-stand/The Minnesota Vikings have a decision to make on a running back. He's turned in some of the most exciting plays in recent memory and is an important part of the Vikings' success. He has the ability to take any play to the house and always seems capable of expanding his game.   You may think I’m t...16421Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wild-might-need-a-defensive-upgrade-at-the-draft/We're very excited about the Minnesota Wild's prospect pool at Hockey Wilderness. How could we not be? They've got at least one public-facing scout who ranks their system as the best in the NHL. Hockey Prospecting's statistical model puts them second only to the Columbus Blue Jackets.  But that...16420Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/an-outside-scorer-the-wolves-should-target-with-pick-53/With more than two weeks until this year's draft, most front offices in the league are still finalizing big boards.   For the Minnesota Timberwolves, their front office’s draft night strategy is still uncertain. Talk of trading franchise cornerstone Karl-Anthony Towns has surfaced on Wolves Twitt...16419Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wild-might-need-a-defense-upgrade-at-the-draft/We're very excited about the Minnesota Wild's prospect pool at Hockey Wilderness. How could we not be? They've got at least one public-facing scout who ranks their system as the best in the NHL. Hockey Prospecting's statistical model puts them second only to the Columbus Blue Jackets.  But that...16418Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/pablo-lopezs-curveball-is-the-key-to-getting-out-of-his-rut/Pablo López has not been the same pitcher the Minnesota Twins signed him to a four-year, $73.5 million extension. In eight starts since signing that extension, he has a 6.15 ERA and 4.44 Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP). Opposing hitters have posted a .802 OPS against him in 45.1 innings of wor...16415Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/royce-lewis-isnt-afraid-to-make-adjustments/Royce Lewis has given the Minnesota Twins a much-needed boost in his first week back from an ACL injury. In his 2023 debut against the Houston Astros, Lewis drove in four runs, with a three-run home run in the third inning followed by a game-tying RBI single with the Twins down to their final out...16414Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wild-arent-going-to-trade-core-pieces-this-summer/Stop it. Don’t even think about it. Don’t even think about thinking about it. It ain’t gonna happen. The Minnesota Wild are not going to ship off any core pieces this off-season.  Shane Seney of NHL Trade Rumors posted an article that upset some people on the sacred scribe site of Twitter. Sene...16412Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wilds-coaching-change-should-have-big-impact-on-prospects/The Minnesota Wild have been pretty quiet since the end of the season, but this week they finally made a change. Instead of announcing a new or extended player contract, they announced a coaching change. They named Brett McLean as the new head coach for the Iowa Wild, removing him from the assis...16409Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-twins-have-reinvented-the-terry-ryan-way-for-the-velocity-era/We all know what a Minnesota Twins pitching staff looks like. A squad of dutiful strike-throwers who get the ball over the plate knowing that Walks Will Haunt. It's been a constant over the past two decades, even through the leanest pitching seasons. Since 2000, Minnesota has only ranked lower tha...16408Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/jaren-hall-could-become-a-quality-backup-or-the-vikings-qb-of-the-future/The Minnesota Vikings drafted Jaren Hall with the 164th overall pick in the fifth round of the 2023 NFL draft. An older prospect, Hall, 25, spent two years on a Mormon mission after high school. Following his mission, he joined the BYU football team in 2018, and also played college baseball. Hall...16407Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/3-twins-prospects-who-are-off-to-slow-starts/It’s not just the big-league club that is battling inconsistency in the first third of the 2023 season. A handful of promising young prospects in the Minnesota Twins organization are also having slow starts to their campaigns. It’s not unheard of for young players to go through ups and downs, espe...16405Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/without-their-veterans-the-vikings-are-establishing-much-needed-depth-at-otas/Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell addressed the media after Tuesday’s OTA session, and it went about how you would expect. He thanked everyone for coming out and said he hoped they had a happy Memorial Day weekend. He praised some of his young players and the work they were putting in t...16404Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/matthew-wood-fits-the-bill-as-a-wild-draft-target/With the NHL Draft weeks away, it's time to start cramming for the big event and figuring out what shiny new prospect the Minnesota Wild are going to bring into the fold. The organization is entering its fourth draft with director of amateur scouting Judd Brackett at the helm, and his history ca...16403Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/minnesotas-comeback-over-cleveland-was-a-microcosm-of-thier-season/Pablo López was candid about his start on Thursday. He knows he has to be better. The Minnesota Twins traded Luis Arraez, who’s hitting .382/.437/.466, to the Miami Marlins for López. In late April, they extended him for four years, $73.5 million after four starts. So naturally, there was frustrat...16402Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-have-flexibility-with-their-qb-of-the-future/The Minnesota Vikings converted Kirk Cousins’ roster bonus into a signing bonus in March as a salary-clearing maneuver, and by doing so, they pushed cap hits through 2027 and created a $28 million cap hit in 2024. Cousins’ future with the team is unclear beyond 2023. However, despite the pessimist...16401Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/is-there-room-for-minott-and-moore-to-grow-in-minnesota/When Tim Connelly traded the Minnesota Timberwolves' present and the future for Rudy Gobert less than two months into his tenure, it signaled that the Wolves were going all-in to win now and try to capitalize on their recent success. Even though he sent most of Minnesota’s role players and draft c...16397Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wild-dodged-a-bullet-with-the-matthew-tkachuk-trade/Minnesota Wild fans were bummed out last month when the division-rival Chicago Blackhawks got the first overall pick in the 2023 Draft. That gives them the right to draft Connor Bedard, of course, the NHL's most recent generational prospect. This always happens to Minnesota, the feeling went. B...16396Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/how-do-the-twins-become-the-team-they-ought-to-be/Pythagorean winning percentage estimates a team’s winnings percentage based on their runs scored and runs allowed. The influential statistician and baseball writer Bill James created the stat to determine if teams have been lucky or unlucky at any point in their season. A team with a good record b...16395Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/minnesotas-offensive-evolution-will-make-t-j-hockenson-the-no-2-target/The 2023 season presents a first in quite some time for the Minnesota Vikings. Since 2017, Adam Thielen was locked and loaded as a receiver who would inevitably find himself as a top-two target in Minnesota's passing game. Here's how Thielen's targets broke down over the past six seasons. 20...16393Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-are-prioritizing-intensity-over-the-grind/The Minnesota Vikings failed to close the loop with the San Francisco 49ers after losing to the New York Giants in the first round of the playoffs last year. They had hosted the Niners for joint practices in mid-August and saw the potential in Kyle Shanahan’s squad. San Francisco won their first-r...16392Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/will-dlos-premature-victory-lap-hurt-his-contract-negotiations/After the Los Angeles Lakers' blowout win over the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 of the Western Conference Semifinals, everybody in Lakerland was on Cloud 9, including old friend D'Angelo Russell. DLo was coming off one of his best games in this year’s playoffs, scoring an efficient 21 points, 5...16391Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/are-underperforming-veterans-stifling-minnesotas-youth-movement/The Minnesota Twins came into the 2023 season with plenty of optimism. They had established names that could carry a lineup, a starting rotation that is one of the best in baseball, and a bullpen that’s good enough to get the job done. However, the biggest reason for excitement resided in what the...16390Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/minnesotas-dead-cap-space-might-help-as-much-as-it-hurts-this-summer/The State of Hockey is going to spend their offseason with their collective noses pressed against the window while the teams with money go shopping this summer. With the Zach Parise/Ryan Suter Buyout Torture Machine ratcheted up to $14.7 million, the Minnesota Wild are unable to do almost anythi...16388Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/willi-castro-is-having-a-rob-refsnyder-moment/The Minnesota Twins signed veteran utility man Willi Castro to a minor league contract in late December. Bringing in a veteran who can play multiple positions allowed them to flex some depth when the team needed it. At the very least, he is a veteran who they could call up from Triple-A every so o...16386Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000