Twins Notes, and Week 12 NFL “Expert” Picks
also available at www.SethSpeaks.net - Here are the Week 12 picks from our Expert Panel! The Week 11 winner was Andrew Kneeland, so congratulations to him. Travis Aune is now tied with Dan Slowey in the overall standings through Week 11. There are eight people within three games of the leaders. Should be an interesting final weeks. If you want to see the overall standings and more, click here. Before we get to our Week 12 picks, here are a few other quick notes to get you through the Thanksgiving weekend.

Roger’s 2009 Twins Minor League All Stars
also available at www.SethSpeaks.net - Over at Twinkie Town, our friend Roger Dehring does a tremendous job keeping Twins fans updated on the Twins minor league system. Every Saturday, he produces his Weekly Twins Minor League Update. Recently, he provided a top ten list of Twins minor leaguers by position. He has developed a formula that looks at all Twins minor leaguers, and how they perform. The formula is complex but it involves a point system using several statistics and comparing them to an average number. He also factors in several other things including age and level of competition.  He

Live Twins Chat at 12:30 Today
I will be taking your Twins-related questions from 12:30-1:30 this afternoon. I will open up the chat room 15-20 minutes early so you can get your questions in. We can talk about The MVP (the award will be announced at 1:00), the 40 man roster, free agents, trades, rumors, or anything. If you are interested in getting an e-mail reminder, participating or watching the live chat, or reading the Archives later, please Click Here. Hope you can Join!

Mauer for MVP?
also available at www.SethSpeaks.net - Do I think that Joe Mauer should win the American League MVP award today when it is announced at 1:00 central time today? Of course I do. I mean, he had one of the most historic seasons in baseball history even if you forget the disclaimer that he did it as a catcher. I also have to admit to being 100% biased in that opinion. It is an opinion that is shared by many people around the baseball community. However, will it be the opinion of enough of the 32 baseball writers that actually get to submit a vote for the award? We shall find out this afternoon. Again, I am comp

Twins to Add Six to 40 Man Roster Tomorrow
also available at www.SethSpeaks.net - I learned tonight that the Twins will be adding six players to their 40 man roster before Friday’s deadline for that decision. What I don’t know is who was removed from the 40 man roster. If the Twins don’t sign any of their internal free agents (Crede, Pavano, Cabrera, Redmond, Cabrera) before 11:00 tonight, they would still need to take at least one player off of their current 40 man roster to get to 40. If they want to have 39 or even 38 on their roster at this stage, it would mean that more would need to be removed. Out of respect to the player or players that are removed fro