Monday Morning Minnesota: The "Thankful for the Twins" Edition

Today at 02:04 PM

And a Happy Turkey Week to all!

The Past Week on Twinkie Town:

• Ahead of the Rule 5 draft, the Twins opted to add prospects Marco Raya and Travis Adams to the 40-man roster.
• The Twins also agreed to contracts with several players and tendered contracts to all their arbitration-eligible players.
• Matt Monitto finishes up the undrafted round of his Out of the Park playthrough.
• Jonathan Gamble provides his top 10 list of Twins pitchers.
• Zach Koenig reminisces about the return of a Twins legend in 2015.
• At Twinkie Town, we believe in diversity of thought, which is why James Fillmore provides his review of a documentary on Minnesota roller derby.

Elsewhere in Twins Territory:

• Do-Hyoung Park at MLB.com looks at what Griffin Jax is focusing on in the 2025 season.
• Aaron Gleeman and Dan Hayes give their first projections on what the 2025 Twins roster might look like.
• Lou Hennessey at Zone Coverage evaluates another potential trade between the Twins and the Seattle Mariners.

In the World of Baseball:

• It was award season last week, as MLB announced the winners of the MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, and Manager of the Year awards.
• Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani were the front-runners for the MVP awards for most of the season and both were unanimous winners.
• Tarik Skubal and Chris Sale were named the Cy Young winners and frankly, both pitchers have had incredible comeback seasons after dealing with injuries for the past few years.
• Former Twins farmhand Luis Gil and Paul Skenes won the Rookie of the Year awards, the first time since 2011 where both winners from the AL and NL were pitchers.
• Stephen Vogt and Pat Murphy were named Manager of the Year - certainly impressive that two rookies managers were the recipients of this award.