As if the season could get any worse, on Wednesday it did. The Twins lost again on Wednesday falling 7-3 to the Kansas City Royals and dropping to 59-89. That’s 29 games below .500 and 27 games back of the AL Central leading Tigers, even though the Twins have been eliminated from the playoffs for a while now. The little shred of dignity that the Twins had left before Wednesday’s loss was all but taken away when on Thursday they realized that they now own the AL’s worst record.
I think that this has all come as a huge surprise to many fans, and especially people involved in the Twins organization. The fact that the Twins have played so horribly this year is very disappointing, especially since the Twins were many people’s hot pick to win the division this year after the way they finished last season. Although the Twins lost two years in a row in the playoffs to the Yankees, the thought around the league was that the Twins were fully loaded, talent and coaching wise, to make a run at the division and to go deep into the playoffs.
Now that the MLB season is winding down, and looking back on it, most critics of the Twins couldn’t have been more wrong. Although injuries did play somewhat of a factor in the Twins horrible season, it seemed all season as if the Twins just didn’t have it. Once Mauer returned from injury he looked horrible, manager Ron Gardenhire made terrible decisions all season long and Joe Nathan was an utter disappointment. The only real bright spot for Twins nation, is that there’s always another season to be played.
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