The Minnesota Twins play Oakland this weekend, but the real focus will be on Kirby Puckett. This weekend Twins fans will honor Puckett and the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in events culminating in the retirement of Puckett's Number 34 Sunday. But it's been said that baseball is mostly pitching, and honoring Kirby can only momentarily obscure the fact that pitching is one of the current Twins' biggest problems. And the root of it may lie in their inability to take good prospects in the minor leagues and turn them into good major leaguers pitchers ... prospects like Willie Banks, Pay Mahomes, and Scott Klingenbeck. Now, education has been one of the hottest topics of conversation in Minnesota lately, but -- when baseball analyst Kevin Hennessy and I called up former Twins great Jim Kaat -- we never expected him to say pitchers could use a little more college education. --------------------------------------------------------- | D-CART ITEM: 3559 | TIME: 4:41 | OUTCUE: "...YEAR FOR ME."