I’ve been wanting to sit down and write up a Twins preview for a couple of weeks now. However, there’s been so much roster turnover and uncertainty, what with the whole trading Johan, losing Hunter and Silva, possibly trading Nathan scenarios, and so on, that I wanted to wait until we were closer to the final roster to take a crack at it. It looks like things are now settled enough that I’m going to do just that. Read on past the jump to find out my take on your 2008 Minnesota Twins.

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that’s correct– boston’s backup first baseman missing the first two games of the season due to a sore neck qualifies as top news on espn.com. i eagerly await the update on long reliever manny delcarmen, who apparently is a little tired after not getting to bed until late on sunday night.