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The Minnesota Twins restructured the contract of closer Glen Perkins, who agreed to terms on a new four-year contract extension, the team announced Friday. The new deal covers the 2014 through 2017 seasons. Perkins had been under contract through the 2015 season before agreeing...

By Tom Powers St. Paul Pioneer Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — Glen Perkins, the accidental closer, has generated his share of spring training headlines over the years. A quick check of the story archives confirms that a recurring banner often was: “Perkins Roughed Up.” That’s...

By Tom Powers St. Paul Pioneer Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — Glen Perkins is king of the hill. “By default,” Perkins noted. It’s true that he rules over a very small tribe of hill people. But Perkins, by virtue of being the first man to charge up the new “agility...

By Tom Powers St. Paul Pioneer Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — It’s 7:45 a.m. and Tom Brunansky is on one knee watching Doug Bernier hit baseballs off a tee. Thwack! Thwack! Brunansky takes a sip of coffee and tees up another ball. Thwack! He seems unaffected by these mini-booms...

By Tom Powers St. Paul Pioneer Press PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Ricky Nolasco is a different type of fellow, dry as burnt toast. He is a sphinx, but with a tan and a hot car. There was a rumor going around the press box the other day that someone saw him smile. My theory is that...

By Joe Oberle, Sports Xchange The Minnesota Twins and their fans got they some bad early news in spring training. They were looking forward to top prospect Miguel Sano as he prepared for what might have been his rookie season in the majors. Instead of becoming the team’s top...

By Tom Powers St. Paul Pioneer Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — He was the heir apparent to quarterback Johnny Manziel at Texas A&M and on Wednesday he could have been strutting around College Station, maybe even partying with Johnny Football himself. Instead, Kohl Stewart...

By Sports Xchange FORT MYERS, Fla. — It is said that change can be a good thing, and many changes were needed for the Minnesota Twins coming off a third consecutive 90-loss season in 2013. But as the team assembles for spring training, there may not yet have been enough changes...

The Minnesota Twins announced Monday that general manager Terry Ryan was diagnosed with a treatable form of cancer. Ryan will not be with the team for the start of spring training so he can focus on treatment and recovery. The club said a lump in Ryan’s neck was discovered...

By Mike Berardino St. Paul Pioneer Press ST. PAUL — For the 15th and final time, Jack Morris has fallen short of baseball immortality. Morris, the St. Paul native and 1991 Twins World Series hero, received 61.5 percent of this year’s vote from the Baseball Writers’...