The Minnesota Twins are not off to the start that they were hoping for the Minnesota Twins. Actually, they started off fine, to the tune of a 2-0 record.
The Minnesota Twins lost Jhoan Durán to an oblique strain near the end of spring training, and will be without their relief ace for the first month or more of the 2024 regular season.
The Twins will open their AL Central title defense without closer Jhoan Duran, who has a moderate oblique strain.
The two relievers are expected to be out for a little while, and DeSclafani possibly much longer. Per Steve Adams at MLB Trade Rumors, Jhoan Duran has been diagnosed with a “moderate” oblique strain, and Caleb Thielbar with a strained hamstring.
Losing him even for a short spell is painful for the Twins, given the flamethrower’s emergence as one of MLB’s premier relievers.
Jhoan Duran isn't a top-100 player in Major League Baseball? Same story for Royce Lewis and Byron Buxton? So it goes for a few Minnesota Twins who were left off ESPN's list of the top-100 players in the majors entering the 2024 season. Only two members of the Twins made the top 100: Pablo Lopez at No.
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How fun was watching the Twins bullpen late in the season and the playoffs? Rocco Baldelli and Pete Maki could turn to power arm after power arm. But there isn’t a more powerful arm in baseball than the right arm of Jhoan Duran’s.
There were tears shed at Target Field as the Minnesota Twins won their first playoff game since 2004 on Tuesday, and we're sure there were plenty of emotional scene for those listening to the game on the radio.
The 2023 postseason has no shortage of flamethrowers. Here's a closer look at the hardest-throwing pitchers in October, led by Jhoan Duran.
Sure, Jhoan Duran has had a couple hiccups throughout the season. You could say that about virtually any pitcher in baseball. But you would be hard-pressed to find many bullpen arms as lethal and dominant as the Twins’ closer.
The Twins’ bullpen got a big boost last night when flamethrowing righties Chris Paddack and Brock Stewart returned to the mound.
The most electrifying entrance in Major League Baseball on the night the Minnesota Twins clinched a playoffs spot – it doesn't get much better than that.
The Minnesota Twins entered the 2023 season with one of baseball’s most talented young relievers. Jhoan Duran switched from the rotation to the bullpen to start the 2022 season and produced Pitching Ninja highlights in nearly every appearance.
The New York Mets aired one of the Minnesota Twins' best-kept secrets and it had nothing to do with the Twins' 5-2 victory on Friday night. That's because the SNY broadcast decided to show the entrance of Twins closer Jhoan Duran and gave it the full-blown Edwin Diaz experience.
Minnesota’s fireman is suddenly fallible. Let’s meander through the data and see if we can pinpoint the issues. I’ve never analyzed Jhoan Duran before.
Jhoan Duran had about as dominant of a rookie season as you can have as a reliever. After an equally strong start to 2023, Duran’s numbers have been slipping as of late.
The Minnesota Twins beat the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night by a score of 5-3. Michael A. Taylor helped key the victory with a two-run homer and Ryan Jeffers added a home run as well. On the mound, Sonny Gray got his first win since April by tossing 7.0 innings of two-run ball.
Minnesota Twins closer Jhoan Duran has some of the nastiest stuff in all of Major League Baseball, which is saying a lot because there are just so many
Jhoan Duran has, once again, reset the mark for the fastest pitch of 2023. With one out and two men on in the ninth inning of Wednesday's Twins-Mariners
After earning saves in Minnesota's first three games coming out of the All-Star break, hard-throwing closer Jhoan Duran was unavailable as the Twins opened a four-game road series against the Seattle Mariners on Monday.
With the trade deadline now less than two months away, we at MLBTR are setting our sights backward for a bit to highlight past trades of rental players
Remember back in the day when, say, 95 mph used to be an elite fastball? Yeah..... those days are done, and we got further proof of it on Wednesday afternoon.
Jhoan Duran might throw even harder in 2023. The electrifying Minnesota Twins reliever led the majors in 2022 with an average four-seam fastball velocity of 100.8 mph.
The 100.8 mph "splinker" that Jhoan Duran struck out Alex Verdugo with on Monday night was the first off-speed pitch in MLB history at 100+ mph, according
A look at the Twins walk-up songs Jhoan Duran set the record for the fastest pitch ever recorded by a Twins pitcher this April chucking it 102 mph. He broke his own record just recently tossing a pitch against the Athletics 102.8 mph, and actually threw the three fastest pitches in Twins history in this game.
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