--RHP Bob Keppel, LHP Sean Henn and LHP Mike Gosling signed minor league deals with the Twins and were invited to the team's big-league spring camp. 

Five players with major-league experience, four of them pitchers, will join the Twins for spring training next month, the team announced today as it issued 15 invitations to camp. 

The Twins extended spring training invitations to R. 

Tom McDonald's job isn't usually this stressful. 

Twelve years down, three to go. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Carl Pohlad always knew what his baseball team was up to -- "We never made a transaction involving our 25-man roster without running it by him," former general manager Terry Ryan said -- but he never meddled in player decisions, suggested trades or pushed 

--SS Nick Punto's grandparents are from Italy, which makes him eligible to play for its national team in the World Baseball Classic. 

Carl Pohlad always knew what his baseball team was up to -- "We never made a transaction involving our 25-man roster without running it by him," former general manager Terry Ryan said -- but he never meddled in player decisions, suggested trades or pushed 

--SS Nick Punto's grandparents are from Italy, which makes him eligible to play for its national team in the World Baseball Classic. 

Carl Pohlad always knew what his baseball team was up to -- "We never made a transaction involving our 25-man roster without running it by him," former general manager Terry Ryan said -- but he never meddled in player decisions, suggested trades or pushed 

--SS Nick Punto's grandparents are from Italy, which makes him eligible to play for its national team in the World Baseball Classic. 

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.