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Scouting Notes: Pattern Pitching Dooms Francisco Liriano in Game 1

You can get good hitters out the same way only so many times. Particularly when pitching against the Yankees, the way you get them out for the first five innings may not work anymore come the sixth or the seventh. Francisco Liriano and the Twins learned that the hard way in Game 1 of the American League Division Series....

Francisco Liriano Gets Chance to Achieve CC Sabathia Status

MINNEAPOLIS -- Francisco Liriano is everything CC Sabathia is not. And, no, we're not talking about Liriano's slender build juxtaposed against Sabathia's penchant for carrying surplus poundage. Liriano is inexperienced in the ways of the postseason. Sabathia has been down the playoff road before. Liriano has had to...

Tim Hudson, Francisco Liriano Named Comeback Players of the Year

NEW YORK (AP) -- Pitchers Tim Hudson of the Braves and Francisco Liriano of the Twins have been the voted the comeback players of the year. Hudson had elbow ligament-replacement surgery in 2008 and was limited to just seven starts the following season. But the right-hander went 17-9 with a 2.83 ERA this year to win the NL...

Twins Playoff Scouting Report

The playoffs haven't always gone particularly well for the Twins in recent years, and much of that is their own fault. You can argue that their talent hasn't stacked up, but if you look at their postseason games on a case-by-case basis you can you see they haven't always played the fundamentally sound baseball they...

Twins Set Playoff Rotation, Starting With Francisco Liriano

The carpet in the home clubhouse at Target Field probably hadn't even dried yet Wednesday and already the Twins were making plans for the playoffs. Hours after Minnesota clinched the AL Central title, manager Ron Gardenhire announced -- to no one's surprise -- that Francisco Liriano would get the ball for Game 1 of the...

Francisco Liriano News From the Web

05/26/12 Francisco Liriano moves back into Twins rotation Source: NBC - Wave 3 - Louisville KY Ready or not, Francisco Liriano is jumping back into the Minnesota Twins' beleaguered starting rotation.
05/22/12 Tom Powers: For Twins pitching, it's now all about... Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press - St. Paul MN 7 starts, 33 innings, 46 hits, 8.37 earned-run average.
05/22/12 7 Miserable Starting Pitchers Who Would Make Great... Source: Bleacher Report Francisco Liriano might be one of the worst pitchers in all of baseball and has struggled throughout his career.
05/18/12 Minnesota Twins find unlikely heroes to sweep Tigers Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press - St. Paul MN Quick, someone find that game plan in which journeyman pitcher P.J. Walters saves the Twins' bullpen from ruin, reliever Francisco Liriano delivers in the clutch and Drew Butera goes 3 for 4 to raise his batting average to .350.
05/15/12 Twins take late lead but can't hold off Indians Source: The Seattle Times - Seattle WA Ryan Doumit's two-run blast sailed into the upper deck in left field, and he was swarmed by his teammates as he hit the dugout to celebrate his game-tying, eighth-inning home run.

Background on Francisco Liriano

Francisco Liriano y Casillas (born October 26, 1983, in Juan Barón, San Cristobal, Dominican Republic) is a left-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Minnesota Twins.

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