Minnesota Twins Daily Clips Sunday, August 16, 2015
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Minnesota Twins Daily Clips Sunday, August 16, 2015 Pregame: Duffey 2.0 starts as Twins face Cleveland. Star Tribune (Neal) p. 1 Saturday's Twins-Cleveland game recap. Star Tribune (Neal) p. 2 The Pohlad family, owners of the Minnesota Twins, is building up around Target Field. Star Tribune (Kaszuba) p. 2 Postgame: Thoughts on May, Berrios, Rosario. Star Tribune (Kaszuba) p. 4 Twins' Rosario throwing out runners regularly. Star Tribune (Neal) p. 4 Hartman: Twins getting little bang for their biggest bucks. Star Tribune (Hartman) p. 5 Duffey makes amends, helps Twins top Cleveland 4-1. Star Tribune (Neal) p. 6 Plouffe getting too familiar with twin killings. Pioneer Press (Berardino) p. 7 Twins' Tyler Duffey pitches gem, beats Cleveland 4-1. Pioneer Press (Berardino) p. 9 Twinsights: Breaking down Twins’ 1-hit history after two in two weeks. Pioneer Press (Berardino) p. 10 Twinsights: Innings could become concern for Jose Berrios, Terry Ryan says. Pioneer Press (Berardino) p. 10 Postgame Twinsights: Trevor May heads back to the bullpen. Pioneer Press (Berardino) p. 11 Milone returns from DL for finale vs. Indians. MLB.com (Helfand) p. 12 Eddie Rosario swats pitch near his chin for homer, announces himself as King of the Bad-Ball Hitters. MLB.com (Landers) p. 12 Twins option Tonkin to make room for Milone. MLB.com (Helfand) p. 12 After tough debut, redemption for Duffey in win. MLB.com (Helfand) p. 13 Duffey earns first MLB win as Twins top Tribe. MLB.com (Bastian & Helfand) p. 14 More shuffling: Duffey to start again, May back to ‘pen, Tonkin out. 1500espn.com (Wetmore) p. 15 Duffey allows just 1 hit through 6 innings, Twins top Indians. Associated Press p. 15 Pregame: Duffey 2.0 starts as Twins face Cleveland La Velle E. Neal III | Star Tribune | August 15, 2015 Two innings is not enough to judge Tyler Duffey on. And he gets a chance to show he's more than what was seen in Toronto on Aug. 5. Paul Molitor hopes that Duffey can pitch the way he did at Class AAA Rochester, where he posted a 2.53 ERA. ``As much as you try to prepare a guy for that - the game is the same and the distances are the same and the strike zone is still the same - they have a tendency to try to do more that what got them here,'' Molitor said. ``I think he learned from that.'' After basically having a bullpen game on Friday, the Twins could use some innings from Duffey tonight. If not, the Twins could in big trouble as their series in New York against the Yankees is right around the corner. Brian Dozier is back in the starting lineup after getting Friday off. Dozier is still hitting for power but is slumping, average wise. He batted .206 last month and is batting .184 in August. After destroying pitches and landing in the All-Star Game, Dozier is getting a steady diet of off-speed pitches and said he's trying to adjust. He's not staying on the ball like he knows he can. Saturday’s Twins-Cleveland game recap La Velle E. Neal III | Star Tribune | August 15, 2015 IMPACT PLAYER Tyler Duffey, Twins The rookie righthander threw six hitless innings en route to his first major league victory in his second appearance. BY THE NUMBERS 2: Times this season the Twins have hit back-to-back homers in a game. 8: Groundball outs induced by Duffey, 19: Batters Duffey faced before giving up a hit. ON DECK Twins lefthander Tommy Milone will be activated from the disabled list on Sunday to face the Indians, a team he is 1-1 with 1.99 ERA against in four career starts. Carlos Carrasco will start for Cleveland. The Pohlad family, owners of the Minnesota Twins, is building up around Target Field Mike Kaszuba | Star Tribune | August 15, 2015 On a cold Wednesday in April of last year, the Minnesota Twins lost an otherwise forgettable game to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Target Field. But elsewhere the Pohlad family, the team’s owners, and their development company were doing much better. The team and United Properties on that day signed a series of complex agreements for Target Field Station, a project next to Target Field that is part transit station, part parking ramp and part public gathering space. It gave the Pohlads naming rights, access to hundreds of parking spaces and even the ability to erect a large video board — all on public property. It was another sign that, in the five years since the publicly subsidized Target Field opened, the Pohlads have been doing at least as well outside the stadium as their team has been doing in it. Though United Properties seemed slow to realize the ballpark’s ability to launch nearby development, the company has since made up for lost time. United Properties has bought the adjoining Ford Center office building, inserted the Pohlad-owned radio station into it and lured the bone-marrow transplant nonprofit Be the Match into a new building going up across the street. It also announced plans for a tall office building next to Target Field Station and has joined in an attempt to build a soccer stadium just down the street. The team also has an option to develop a 3.2-acre land parcel across from Target Field. Under a series of agreements with the Minnesota Ballpark Authority, the public entity that owns the ballpark and the parcel, the option extends until 2025 but the Twins have not made rent or option payments on the property because of other contributions the team has made. “They were not active in this area — not at all,” said Kit Richardson, a principal at Schafer Richardson, another commercial development company that has been active near Target Field. “I’m guessing it was the ballpark” that changed things. Schafer Richardson originally owned the 11-story Ford Center, and Richardson said the Twins initially wanted to lease offices in the building as Target Field was being built. “At some point, they just said, ‘No, we’d like to just buy the building,’ ” said Richardson. The market value of the Ford Center has risen to $28 million since construction started on the baseball stadium. United Properties was largely a suburban developer when Target Field was being built, and United Properties President Frank Dutke said it was Jim Pohlad — the Twins’ chief executive and United Properties’ board chairman — who instructed the company to buy the Ford Center. “I thought it was a cool building,” said Pohlad. But Pohlad said he never pushed for United Properties to more aggressively develop near Target Field, and left that decision to others. “I’m not that savvy,” he said. “There’s never a point where I start doing that, just like I don’t sit around and [say] it’s time to bring [Twins rookie] Miguel Sano up to the major leagues.” But soon, said Dutke, United Properties did become more active near Target Field. David St. Peter, the Twins president, said Hennepin County even asked the team to send Jerry Bell, the team’s stadium negotiator, to the Legislature to help obtain state money for the Target Field Station 2 project. The interests of the Twins and United Properties at times have seemed joined. St. Peter, who is in charge of operating the baseball team, took a lead in negotiations with Hennepin County regarding Target Field Station. The project, said St. Peter, “brought me [in] a little deeper than normally I would be.” “We obviously have a sister company. [It’s] only natural that we work together,” said St. Peter, who said the arrangement did not give United Properties a competitive advantage in developing Target Field Station. The team and United Properties have increasingly blended their varying interests, including the Pohlads’ attempt to help bring a Major League Soccer team to Minnesota. When the U.S. won the FIFA Women’s World Cup in early July, the final game was shown on the Twins’ jumbo screen at Target Field Station. The Pohlads’ radio station, 96.3 KTWN-FM, featured a picture of the event on its website, saying “hundreds of soccer fans” attended and “the plaza [was] packed with devotees.” More than $81 million in public money went into the Target Field Station project, with more than $30 million coming from Hennepin County, which had already spent $350 million to help build Target Field. Debra Brisk, an assistant county administrator, said the Pohlads were not given anything out of the ordinary. “I don’t think this is anything abnormal,” Brisk said of the county’s relationship with the Pohlads. “They enjoy sitting with us and knowing where we’re heading, just as much as we enjoy hearing where they’re heading.” That view is shared by Dan Kenney, a former county official and now executive director of the Minnesota Ballpark Authority. Kenney said that, with the right amount of public infrastructure improvements at Target Field, he was optimistic development would follow and “confident that United Properties would be involved.” While Target Field Station was widely praised as a forward-thinking mass transit hub for the public, it was also good for the Twins and United Properties. Though the county owns a 289-vehicle underground parking ramp at the site, the team and United Properties have a “stall rights” option to lease most of them and get a “slight discount” if they enter into a long-term lease. United Properties, at one point, paid an additional $240,000 to have the county make the parking ramp bigger.