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Saints' conversion to Twins affiliate was overdue, as players cycle through going up or down

Toby Gardenhire brings Saints into Twins future with 11-1 home debut loss Gardenhire up for guiding prospects from Saints to Twins.  May 12, 2021 — 7:10am Text size Copy shortlink: Toby Gardenhire grew up in a Twins-focused environment, what with his father, Ron, being the third base coach and later longtime manager for the Minneapolis-based major league team. Still, the younger Gardenhire had some East-of-the-Mississippi influences, too. His family lived in Little Canada, and he graduated from Roseville High School in 2001. Twen...

Saints finish season-opening road trip with one victory, one defeat and a lot of injured players They barely had enough players to put on the field in the finale at Omaha.  By NEWS SERVICES Text size Copy shortlink: PAPILLION, NEB. – The St.Paul Saints soon will play their first home game as the Twins' Class AAA affiliate. Hopefully by then, they will have enough healthy players to form a bench. The Saints closed out their season-opening series with the Omaha Storm Chasers by splitting two games Sunday, making it through to the end despi...

WASECA, MINN. – Gene Glynn will be back where he was three decades earlier, coaching high school lads in basketball in Minnesota's mid-south, when practice commences for the St. Clair Cyclones' 2021-22 season in November. It has been a winding trail from Mankato Loyola's Crusaders to the Cyclones for Glynn, remembered by most Minnesota sports followers for being a baseball man, remembered by many fewer as the first winner of the state's "Mr. Basketball" award for Waseca in 1975. Glynn followed that with basketball and baseball stardom for what was then Mankato State from 1975 to 1979. He wa...

On Tuesday in Omaha, the St. Paul Saints will play their first game as a Minnesota Twins farm club. On May 11, the Saints will play their first home game as the Twins' AAA affiliate, at CHS Field. The franchise known for pigs delivering baseballs to home plate and nuns giving massages — or is it the other way around? — is becoming part of the machine it once took delight in raging against. Can the Saints do the serious work of developing prospects for a big-league team while honoring their longtime slogan, "Fun is Good"? "I think the change will make us both better,'' said Saints presiden...