Twinkie Town Talk: Thanksgiving Day Edition

Happy Thanksgiving wishes to everyone who is celebrating it today, and over the weekend. Hopefully everyone gets to spend some time with family and friends (or stay snuggled in your residence if you’re in southern Minnesota). If you’re not celebrating - happy Thursday!

Either way, here are some links for you to peruse...

The latest from Twinkie Town:

• Cooper continues looking into his crystal ball to predict where free agents will end up signing this off season.
• Speaking of off season, our blog overlord believes that the Twins are doing things right so far this winter.
• Speaking of doing things right, the Minnesota unveiled the best alternate uniform ever for 2020.
• Speaking of best alternate uniforms ever, some minor-league deals were completed this week by our favorite team, including a former Twin.
• Speaking of former Twins, joseph7823 and TeamCrazyMatt continues our series of grading players’ 2019 seasons with currently-former-Twin Jonathan Schoop and currently-not-former-Twin Luis Arraez.
• Continuing to speak of former Twins players, pour one out for the Kyle Gibson Fan Club: he’s signed with the Texas Rangers.
• And finally, continuing to continue speaking of former Twins, Minnesota has lost their bench coach and assistant pitching coach this week, while announcing their new hitting coach.

The latest from Twins Territory:

• Jorge Polanco had surgery on his right ankle. Nothing to worry about though - he should be ready in time for camp, barring some freak injury that will knock him out of the 2020 season.
• Puckett’s Pond ranked the top ten Twins uniforms of all time. What do you think?
• Is Uncle Sam hindering Minnesota’s chances of landing free agents? Maybe.
• Some Twins players were in Florida recently to put on a clinic for kids, and it sounds like it was a success.

The latest from baseball:

• Another independent league baseball team in the Twin Cities? It could happen!
• Some members of Congress are mad at MLB’s plan to cut down on minor-league teams.
• Bleacher Report talks about seven players that could be potential trade targets this winter. Any players that you think the Twins could go after?
• Finally, CBS Sports takes a look at those who could be non-tendered and become free agents in less than a week.

Discussion topic:

What is your favorite Thanksgiving food?