It all begins tomorrow, yet another season for our beloved Minnesota Twins. The look will be much different than a year ago. Gone are the faces of the team, Torii Hunter, Johan Santana and Carlos Silva. And in are the new faces that will guide the team well into the future, Delmon Young and Carlos Gomez.

It could be a rocky road this year for the Twins, but with expectations low all-around, it could also be a time to prove critics wrong and make a name for themselves.

Lets take a look at your 2008 Minnesota Twins:

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With the moves that the Twins have made this off-season, they’ve signified a change for the better. The Twins have showed their willingness to spend money on the key guys to keep them around rather than lose them to big spenders on the open market. They’ve also showed their change of philosophy, going out and using their strengths (pitching depth) to get their weakness (hitting).

The moves that the team made over the course of the past six months will make the team better not only for the upcoming 2008 season, but also for the future. Assuring all fans that when the new ballpark opens, they’ll be seeing a competitive team.

The off-season actually started before the end of the season with long-time veteran general manager Terry Ryan stepping down. The move was shocking to the whole Twins world, but ultimately, it may be the move that triggered the change in direction.

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Francisco Liriano had his best outing of the spring today only to be optioned to Single-A Fort Myers after the game. Liriano pitched five solid innings, allowing just three hits and a run. More impressive, Liriano struck out seven Pirates in the outing.

Even with the two solid consecutive starts in which Liriano upped his pitch count, showed better control and let go of his slider, it wasn’t enough to make the Opening Day roster. Ron Gardenhire and company made the decision that he should have more time.

The plan now is for Liriano to stay in Fort Myers and start the club’s opening game next Thursday. At that point, the Twins will send him to Rochester for one final tune-up and then to Minnesota to join the rotation.

The news seemed to be accepted pretty well by The Franchise. He noted that while he does feel fine and ready to start with the big league team, if the Twins feel that he needs two more starts, then he’ll make two more starts.

"I think I'm ready to start in Minnesota. If they want me to start here, I will start here. If they feel it's better for me, I don't mind starting here."

After giving the move a lot of thought, I’m still not sure what to think. I must say that I’m disappointed that he won’t be with the team on Opening Day. But seeing him get two more outings, and the fact that he really won’t miss very much of the major league season, I’m starting to accept that these two extra outings are worth it.

What do you think?

Yesterday it was the hitters, and today we'll do the pitchers. Like the first one, leave your predictions on all or some of the questions.

The Twins won their spring training game today 4-2, but that doesn’t matter. What does matter are the bad things that went on today. For one, Scott Baker only threw 49 pitches, and was supposed to throw 70. And the second thing, our centerfielder Carlos Gomez left the game with a leg injury.

Baker needed to get to 70 pitches in his outing today in order to stay on schedule to stretch himself out before the season. Had everything went fine and had he been able to get to the right number, Baker would have pitched Sunday to finish up the spring. After that, Baker would have been ready to pitch the fourth game of the season.

Now, we don’t know what will happen. Gardenhire hasn’t said anything about it, but the likely guess is that Baker will need to go on the disabled list because he’ll need more time to stretch out before he can be put into the rotation.

The Gomez news is just as bad. He hit a double early, but later in the game, he came up lame in the outfield holding his left leg. He was taken out of the game after being looked at. Right now its being called a hamstring cramp.

The lone good news on the day was that the Twins collected the win and that Livan pitched a great game. His final line was six innings, four hits, one run and five strikeouts.

I’ll have updates right on this post if we get any news on what will happen with Baker or Gomez.

UPDATE 1: Gomez said he wants to play in the last three games of the spring, so it looks like it might not be to bad.

UPDATE 2: Read above for the good news!