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Twinkies Fever

Posted on May 17, 2016 at 02:23 PM.

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Another year and yet another story for the Minnesota Twins who finished surprisingly 2nd last year in the Al Central with a record of 83-79. This season will hopefully be another step upwards as the Twins eye to overtake the World Series Champion Kansas City Royals as the leader of the AL Central. The Twins come back this year with a very familiar roster that is spearheaded offensively by long time Twin Joe Mauer and Brian Dozier, the power hitting second baseman. The Twins had a very slow and under the radar off season as FA signings were at a bare minimum for the Twinkies. Their off season was highlighted by the FA signing of Korean slugger Byung Ho Park to a 4 year 12 million dollar deal. Park looks to be the everyday day DH for the Twins and the occasional start at 1B to give Mauer days off at 1B. The other big move was the trade of former first round pick OF Aaron Hicks to the Yankees for catcher John Ryan Murphy as the Twins are very low on catching depth in the minors as well as the big league roster behind start Kurt Suzuki. The youth movement will be a every day trend for the Twins this year as many young players will be sprung into everyday roles and leading that front is top CF prospect Bryce Buxton and Sp Jose Berrios. After having a solid spring, Buxton will slide into the every day CF role and lead off for the Twins while Berrios will be the anchor in this Twins rotation that will accompanied by Hughes, Santana, Nolasco and Kyle Gibson. Paul Molitor is confident that Miquel Sano can handle the every day duties as the RF for the Twins as his power bat will be surely needed in the middle of this Twins lineup.

For now the Twins hope they can be over .500 just like 2015 and have the hopes of being even better.

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