The Dodgers and Twins are the front-runners for free-agent third baseman Casey Blake, according to the player's agent, Jim McDowell. 

--LHP Dennys Reyes, a Type B free agent, was offered arbitration by the Twins. 

A year after doing a near-total overhaul of their roster, and obsessing for four months over a Johan Santana trade, the Twins enter the offseason with far less work to do on a team that nearly won the AL Central. 

General manager Bill Smith has said the Twins' four-man crowd in the outfield isn't a problem, that the team doesn't see any reason to thin the ranks. 

--LHP Dennys Reyes, a Type B free agent, was offered arbitration by the Twins. 

A year after doing a near-total overhaul of their roster, and obsessing for four months over a Johan Santana trade, the Twins enter the offseason with far less work to do on a team that nearly won the AL Central. 

General manager Bill Smith has said the Twins' four-man crowd in the outfield isn't a problem, that the team doesn't see any reason to thin the ranks. 

--RHP Jeff Manship allowed eight hits but only two runs over 4 2/3 innings against the Arizona Fall League's best-hitting team, and teammate (and fellow Twins prospect) RHP Rob Delaney earned the victory in relief as the Phoenix Desert Dogs won their fift 

A year after doing a near-total overhaul of their roster, and obsessing for four months over a Johan Santana trade, the Twins enter the offseason with far less work to do on a team that nearly won the AL Central. 

General manager Bill Smith has said the Twins' four-man crowd in the outfield isn't a problem, that the team doesn't see any reason to thin the ranks. 

As Edinson Volquez-for-Josh Hamilton proved, the offseason was made for trading. 

General manager Bill Smith has said the Twins' four-man crowd in the outfield isn't a problem, that the team doesn't see any reason to thin the ranks. 

--RHP Jeff Manship allowed eight hits but only two runs over 4 2/3 innings against the Arizona Fall League's best-hitting team, and teammate (and fellow Twins prospect) RHP Rob Delaney earned the victory in relief as the Phoenix Desert Dogs won their fift 

A year after doing a near-total overhaul of their roster, and obsessing for four months over a Johan Santana trade, the Twins enter the offseason with far less work to do on a team that nearly won the AL Central. 

General manager Bill Smith has said the Twins' four-man crowd in the outfield isn't a problem, that the team doesn't see any reason to thin the ranks.