Contest: do you know your Twins? Game-used bat reward

Here are the members of the Minnesota Twins' Hall of Fame:

Harmon Killebrew
Rod Carew
Tony Oliva
Kent Hrbek
Kirby Puckett
Calvin Griffith
Herb Carneal
Jim Kaat
Bert Blyleven
Tom Kelly
Bob Allison
Bob Casey
Earl Battey
Frank Viola
Carl Pohlad
Zoilo Versalles
Gary Gaetti
Jim Rantz
Rick Aguilera
Brad Radke
George Brophy
Jim Perry
Greg Gagne
Camilo Pascual

Here is the challenge: Find the one who is different than the others. That's the game. I'll let it run until I return from Fort Myers early April. The first person who will guess who is different that the others and why, will win a game used bat of a Twins' first round pick.

And you have to guess in the comments section here.

Shoot :)

the winner will be announced early April

And the winners are...

Marv, Josh's thoughts, AM and yickit

you are all the winners of the offseason contest.

Please email me your mailing addresses at thetenthinningstretch at gmail.com (you need to use "@" instead of "at" and there are no spaces) so I can send you each a copy of Seth's prospect book.

Congratulations!

A new contest will be posted this week, so keep your eyes open for this

December contest and new contest

Last month it was the first of the contest series in this spot. The challenge question was "Predict the moves that the Twins' front office will make by the end of December". Unfortunately, nobody predicted the moves that the Twins did in December: Sign RA Dickey, picking up Jason Jones and Henry Arias in the rule 5 draft and signing 4 minor league free agents.

I thought about declaring the winner as the first person that responded (Twins Territory), but for fairness' sake, I am doing this:

I am having a new contest and the time frame is longer

The question is the same:

Predict the moves that the Twins' front office will make

but the end point is by opening day.

The scoring rules are:

• 3 points for each correct major league player move (i.e. if someone says that the Twins trade Perkins and Span for Beltre, he or she will get 9 points)


• 1 point for each minor league move and roster addition or subtraction


• All players in the moves need to be identified correctly to receive points (e.g. "the Twins will acquire a relief pitcher", will receive no points)


• Dollar amounts of contracts are not necessary


• If no moves are made the first person that says "no moves" wins

The price?

4 prices actually (because I have 4 extras of them):

The people with the best four scores will each win a a copy of one of the best minor league publications for the Twins, the Minnesota Twins Prospect Handbook - 2009, by Seth Stohs of SethSpeaks.net a major authority in the Twins' blogosphere, personally autographed by Seth himself.

Again, you have to post the answer at the comments in this entry and cannot be anonymous for fairness. One answer for each person, so think before you post.

Get a friend or two to participate too :)

good luck!

Contests, contests!, contests! and December contest

Here is the deal:

I am planning of having a contest a month in this space on which the winner will get some nice Twins-related goodies:

• For each of the off-season contests (December, January, February and March), the winner will get a copy of one of the best minor league publications for the Twins
  Minnesota Twins Prospect Handbook - 2009, by Seth Stohs of SethSpeaks.net a major authority in the Twins' blogosphere, personally autographed by Seth himself.


• For the in-season contests, I will give away goodies (balls and cards, mainly) autographed by current and past Twins players


• I will have a big contest that will run all season long dealing with predicting the outcome of the season and the winner will receive a package of autographed goodies, including a ball autographed by a Hall of Famer

Here is how it works:

• Every month I will post a challenge question


• The contest will end the last day of the month


• The first person that gives the correct answer to the challenge question in the comments space here (click the pencil at the bottom of the post), will be the winner


• Only one answer per person, and "anonymous" users cannot win, just to keep the one answer integrity; so think

Without further ado here is the challenge question for December:

Predict the moves that the Twins' front office will make by the end of December

Scoring and rules:

• 3 points for each correct major league move


• 1 point for each minor league move and roster addition or subtraction


• All players in the moves need to be identified correctly to receive points (e.r. "the Twins will acquire a relief pitcher", will receive no points)


• Dollar amounts of contracts are not necessary


• If no moves are made the first person that says "no moves" wins (but this is highly unlikely because the arbitration deadline is today, so don't do it :) )


• Please do not include moves made before this post (e.g. Punto re-signing) or post a move that was made after this post but before your comment. They will not count


• Have fun and bring a friend or two :)