Danny Valencia News

Yohan Flande allowed only a run over a season-high 7 innings, but the Gwinnett Braves' bats couldn't solve Rochester right-hander Liam Hendriks as they were shut down by the Red Wings, 3-1 on Thursday night at Coolray Field.

May 8, 2012; Minneapolis, MN, USA: Minnesota Twins third base Danny Valencia throws the ball to first base to get out Los Angeles Angels first baseman Albert Pujols in the third inning at Target Field.

The tragical history tour that is the Minnesota Twins' 2012 season continues. Where else could a guy go 5-for-5 on Monday in Triple-A Rochester and find himself packing for Double-A New Britain less than 24 hours later? Goodbye, Rene Tosoni.

With plate appearances and innings pitched piling up a bit, we can finally start to look -- though there are still small sample size caveats -- at what some of our old friends are up to in their current locations.

The numbers don't lie: 7 starts, 33 innings, 46 hits, 8.37 earned-run average. Oh wait! Those are Nick Blackburn's numbers.

Well, it's the Rochester Red Wings. But it's filled with players who have been a part of the Twins over the rather disastrous past season-and-a-half. Revere is now back up with the Twins , but plenty of once-and-possibly-future Twins remain.

With the 2012 Major League Baseball first-year player draft less than one month away, it seems timely to look back on the Minnesota Twins' draft history.

Back from the grave, I'm here at Frontier Field just before Thursday night's Red Wings-Bats game.

In 78 games last year for the Minnesota Twins' Class AA New Britain club, with Tom Brunansky as hitting coach, shortstop Brian Dozier batted .318 with seven home runs.

Twins infielder Alexi Casilla went to manager Ron Gardenhire's office after Sunday's game to get an explanation about his recent lack of playing time.

I just watched Chien-Ming Wang 's latest minor-league rehab start on MLB Network and he looked pretty good, throwing eight innings against the Twins' Triple-A affiliate.

It has been a battle for Trevor Plouffe this season, but the Twins seem committed to determining once and for all whether the 2004 first-round draft pick can be a productive major leaguer.

The Twins hope Francisco Liriano's move to the bullpen, the left-hander's first since his rookie season in 2006, is brief.

The Blue Jays will look to make it three in a row when they turn the ball to Kyle Drabek for the second of a four-game set with the Twins after beating Minnesota Thursday night, 6-2, at Target Field.

During their downtime periods between losing baseball games, the Minnesota Twins have been amusing themselves recently with a flurry of personnel moves: a new shortstop, a new oufielder, a new starting pitcher.

Kansas City placed former Giants left-hander Jonathan Sanchez, 1-2 with a 6.75 ERA in six starts, on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday with left biceps tendinitis.

Mike Trout went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and two more driven in, as the Angels finally gave Ervin Santana some run support in their 6-2 win over the Minnesota Twins.

After a 6-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night, May 9 dropped their record to 8-22, the Twins decided they couldn't wait any longer to shake up their roster.

The New Britain Rock Cats scored four unearned runs -- three in the top of the ninth inning -- to defeat the B-Mets 4-3 at NYSEG Stadium on Tuesday After a long day of conversations with soon-to-be former Binghamton Senators Coach Kurt Kleinendorst, his former players and others, my story Sunday's walk-off single by Josh Rodriguez was the first ... (more)

Danny Valencia of the Minnesota Twins looks as home plate umpire Cory Blaser after a called third strike against Los Angeles during the eighth inning on May 7, 2012 at Target Field.