In the offseason, there were a few free-agent signings, and minor trades.
Don't know how former Royal Brian Bass came to the team, but he's here now, as a NRIT. Former Astros Adam Everett and Mike Lamb were signed in succession.

(Bass '08, '06; Everett '08, '07-PS; Lamb '08)
Also, the team got Livan Hernandez, Craig Monroe, [...]

As I have commented, my professional education obligations prevent me from doing as much on the MPs as I did last year, but I'll be looking at this year's mugshots, so I might as well post them.
Here are the players that aren't with the team this year (and are with another team). [...]

This is obviously who I'm cheering for, even though as of Sept 30, I knew like 5 of these dudes. If you need to know who is on the AL champs, the loathed BoSox, well, I looked at them in early May. [Note: Roster may not be the same. [Subnote: I may not care.]] [...]

Allright, you're an LA team, I get it. I actually liked the fact that this team claimed Anaheim as a home, the Green Bay of MLB. The small town with a bona-fide major league ballclub. Eh, no more. I'm over it and this is the last time I make a joke [...]

I did an MP of these guys before, but that I was before I found my resources. Here are some more details.
Probable Starters: Roger Clemens, Chien-Ming Wang, Mike Mussina, Kei Igawa.

(Clemens '07, '05; Wang '07, '06, '05; Mussina '07, '06, '05; Igawa '07, '06)
Clemens had an '06 photoshop that looks like the '07 [...]

I did a half-baked look at the Tigers earlier this season. This didn't feature the whole roster, just a few select players. Here's a few more.
Probables: Verlander (featured before), Andrew Miller, and Bonderman (featured before).

(Miller '07)
The Tigers swapped their guy Wilfredo Ledezma for former Brave Macay McBride

(Ledezma '07PS-ATL, '07, '06; McBride '07PS-DET, '07, [...]

I already did a Mugshot Purgatory for the Jays, (see here). However, I've got a few more resources now, and they've had a lot of roster moves.
Probables: Roy "ALCY03" Halladay (who was on the DL last time with appendicitis), Shaun Marcum and Josh Towers (who were missed because their spots in the rotation didn't [...]

Castillo goes home... This team has had so many roster ups and downs this year that a lot of the 25-man roster wasn't even on the 40-man in spring training and so there are a lot of ad hoc 2007 mugshots. I'll state right here that the AAA pics are from the Albuquerque Isotopes [...]

Black underbills for all.
   Boo
Very well, no black underbills for anyone.
   Boo
Black underbills for some, miniature American flags for others.
   Yay

(Flags)
Probable Starters: John "the Smirk" Maine, Jorge Sosa, and Oliver Perez.

(Maine '07, '06, '05; Sosa '07, '06, '04; Perez '07, '06, '05)
I miss Perez's beard.
Other Starters: Tom Glavine and former ChiSok Orlando "Le Duc" Hernandez.

(Glavine '07, '06, [...]

The Twins host the Brewers for an interleague series, but I already previewed them and their roster hasn't changed much. I didn't go over their minor-leaguers, but those aren't really that important, I just thow them in for fun.
However, before we get to the Phillies, there have been three roster moves for the Brewers.
1. [...]

I've generally liked the Braves since I started paying attention to baseball again in 2001. They're pretty much my NL team (I've tried on the Brewers and the Reds, but neither have stuck). That still makes them like my sixth to eighth favorite team (behind all the AL Central and maybe the Rays [...]

I remember three years ago when the Twins played a series against these guys. The team was the Expos, there were French-language ads for a Harry Potter and the Prisonier d'Azkaban, and Luis Rivas hit a foul ball that was ruled a home run and Frank Robinson had to be ejected for choking... himself.
On [...]

The 2007 Oakland Athletics mugshots are a Garden of Earthly Delights. While the '07 Royals may have been the most artistic I have seen so far, the '07 Athletics are full of joy and fun and personality.
My favorite photo of this group is of outfielder Travis Buck.

(Buck '07)
This one picture has everything about the [...]

My professional development will begin taking a lot more of my time starting right now (Actuarial Exams). Due to this, I won't be looking for many player's old mugshots, only a few that look like they deserve the research. Thankfully, the new file uploading pluging allows me to throw up a bunch of [...]

With all the DFAing and DLing and Contract Purchasing going on, I thought I'd memorialize it in an MP.
5/13/07 DFA'd: Sidney Ponson.

(Ponson '06a, '06b, '07)
5/13/07 Sold for $1: Mike Venafro.

(Venafro '06, '07)
5/15/07 Recalled, Cup-of-Coffee'd, 5/18/07 Optioned: Garrett Jones.

(Jones '06, '07)

Not much time tonight, let's see how far I get.
The three scheduled starters are Vincente Padilla, Kameron Loe, and Robinson Tejeda.

(Padilla '07, '06, '05, '04; Loe '07; Tejeda '07, '05)
Padilla has got to be the scariest-looking man in baseball. I would prefer to meet Giambi in a dark alley than Padilla in a lit [...]

I believe the third pro sports event I attended was Twins at Milwaukee in County Stadium. (The first two were Metrodome Twins games.) That was a pretty cool place. We sat in the upper deck, first base side. Roy Smalley hit a homerun. This might be the game. (Cripes, [...]

The Twins faced the AL Champion Detroit Tigers last week, but I was to busy to write them up. This week, the Twins will face Mike "20L" Maroth, former Royal Chad "The Real Deal" Durbin, and Jeremy "Jae" Bonderman.

(Maroth '07, '06, '02; Durbin '07, '05, '02; Bonderman '07, '06, '05, '03)
Jeremy looked so young [...]

Since the first time I've done the ChiSox MP, they've had some roster moves and I've figured out where to find minor leaguer's mugshots.
First off, the three starters will be Javier Vasquez, John Danks, and Jose Contreras

(Vazquez '07, '06, '01; Danks '07, '06, '05; Contreras '07, '06, '05)
Exact same starters the Twins were supposed to [...]

Most people's least favorite team is probably the Yankees. I actually loathe the BoSox more. That said, on to the mugshots!
Twins' and BoSox's rotations really meshed badly, Friday's Tim "I need Mirabelli" Wakefield vs. Silva matchup doesn't look odd, but on Saturday it's, Julian "And if you ever even think of jumping over my [...]

Due to some in-home construction, my computer is barely accessible and I'll need to be building when I could be Mugshot-collecting. Therefore, no Mugshot Purgatories until (hopefully) the series against the BoSox. Fortunately, the opponents between now and then are intra-division Tigers, who the Twins will play approximately 15 more series against, and [...]

The Royals are kind of my other team. I had only started with the Twins in 2001 when things turned around, and I wanted to get a feel for cheering for a bad team. The Royals were easy since they play about 10 games a season in Minnesota. I was planning on [...]

UPDATE! MLB's Gameday (the live internet play-by-play) finally has the 2007 mugshots showing instead of the 2006 mugshots, for at least the Cubs and Padres. However, the Cardinals and maybe the Pirates still have last year's pictures. I'll address this as it develops. End Update!
My impressions of the Mariners are 1) Ichiro! [...]

Tampa Bay is the only metro area with major sports teams where the teams' names are based on a body of water, not a city or state. The Rays are the only team of the three in this body of water that have not won a championship this decade.
I know this team is a [...]

[SBG Note: Yankee fans, welcome. Check out our Yankee Series Preview in Blog and our Charting the Competition feature.]
All right, I think we all know who the Yankees are. Unfortunately, everyone writes about this damned team and google images doesn't get you mugshot hits until like number 250. You google "Paul Bako" [...]

After watching three games featuring the new official game caps (I will not call them 59fifty), I'm not so much against them as I thought I would be. The black underbill doesn't look bad on TV, although it still does in pictures. The new fabric of the hats looks nice on TV, a [...]

"They hide their faces / and they hide their eyes" -Randy Newman "Baltimore"
I blame Angelos.
The Twins open the season tonight against the Fighting Orioles of Baltimore. Looking through the O's mugshots this year, I get a real "Oakland Athletics" vibe, if you know what I mean. (Also, those "O's" hats have got to be [...]

I think high expectations for myself have kept me from getting this done before the season starts. I have all the mugshots for 2006 and 2007, and various photos from previous years, I'm just gonna go with what I have so far. With games starting on Monday, I want to give everyone a [...]

Wow, a weekend away and an office NCAA pool to run, and I just got thrown out of my groove in doing these. Easing my way back, I chose the catchers, because there's two.
Joe Mauer was drafted in 2001 and got his 2002 mugshot. I was surprised to see him in front of [...]

Now left with the players that I've paid lots of attention to, guys who have been on the 25-man roster for at least a big chunk of last year. I'm going to try to slow down and find as many mugshots from before 2006 as I can. Today: The bullpen.
(Note: I'm not [...]

I had thought about organizing the Twins by photo type, (big change, no change, etc.), but it was hard remembering who fit into what category and who's picture had already been posted. That's why I'm organizing them the way I am. I started with the players lowest on the totem pole beacuse they'll [...]

Today's list isn't necessarily only free agents, as some of these guys may have come in drafts (Machado) or trades. Some players (like Ortiz and Cirillo) got signed early enough so that their 2006 mugshots got photoshopped into Twins unis. The rest did not. I already covered Matthew LeCroy and Sidney Ponson.
Ramon [...]

Okay, it's time for me to start looking at mugshots of the 2007 Twins. We'll start with the remaining players who got their first picture this year (or at least didn't have one last year). I'm not particularly familiar with many of these players. Some may be rising stars in the organization [...]

Yesterday, SBG brought up baseball cards with bad airbrushing. Well, I stumbled across a site with a bunch of mugshots from last year's trade deadline. I had said that the photoshopping looks good now. I said that due primarily to the Stewart '06 Twins-to-Athletics job, which was done very well. After [...]

Usually, when a player is traded during the season, MLB.com just goes ahead and changes the cap on his mugshot using photoshop. For a while, these looked pretty crude, but I think they're getting better at it. (I think Dougie Baseball's was awful when he was traded to the BoSox. The one [...]

AMR would like to thank SBG for the opportunity to post this half-baked crap here.
Different people have different details about the game that they pay special attention to. CarterHayes has shared his focus on cards. Paul Lukas loves the uniform. Pat Neshek loves autographed stuff (including cards). Lots of people get deep into stats. Me? [...]