The best team in Baseball
Posted on 21. Apr, 2010 at 8:30 am by SKI in Baseball, Minnesota Twins, MLB Baseball
I’m gonna start by saying I’m a Redsox fan thru and thru so I don’t want to hear I’m jumping on the bandwagon. Also I’m gonna say my mom is from Cleveland and has been rooting for the Indians since the day I was born, so mom please don’t read this post. The Twins are the best team in baseball and also the best team to watch in the MLB.
The Twins in my opinion are the best team  in baseball. Why? Because they have the best lineup in baseball. Yes maybe the Yankees has the most powerful lineup in the game, but if I was a pitcher the last team I would want to face is the Twins.  The Twins offer the rare lineup of power mixed with small ball. 1-9 on the Twins will make the right decision in their at bat to better the team, and they have the right amount of power hitters to contact hitters that would scare me. It also helps to have former MVP of the AL in Mauer and Morneua hitting 3-4 to solidify your lineup, but underrated Jason Kubel and Michael Cuddyer hitting right after them along with Denard Span and the Odogg setting it up makes them the scariest lineup to face. Add in Delmon Young and JJ Hardy hitting 7 and 8 and you got yourself a bonafide murders row.Are the Twins going to win 120 games? No, but consider that their top 3 pitchers include Scott Baker, Nick Blackburn and Carl Pavano, so if they win over 100 games I’ll be impressed. Let’s look back 3 years ago and their top 2 pitchers were the AL Cy Young Johan Santana and the rising star Francisco Liriano. Present time Johan is with the Mets and Liriano is trying to hold on to the 5th spot in the rotation after a couple years of injury. So considering they’re working with pitchers that should be the 3-4 starter on most teams and you are looking at a team that is overachieving.
What should this success indicate? That manager Ron Gardenhire is the best manger in baseball. Factor in that he has gotten runner up to manager of the year 5 times in his 8 years of managing the Twins and you might be looking at the best manager in the AL in the last decade.
So I’m gonna guarantee that Gardenhire wins the AL manager of the year this year, and the Twins flirt with 100 wins this season.
So jump aboard the bandwagon if you want to, but at least watch a few games of the Twins so you can watch what baseball is supposed to look like when played at the highest level.
bbryan
21. Apr, 2010
Mike Scioscia > Ron Gardenhire
Mick
21. Apr, 2010
What happened last year in the first round of the playoffs with this lineup when they played the Yanks? They got dominated, bad. Yes, they are the top-to-bottom hottest team in April. How they hit in the dog days of August and September matter more than April.
That being said, I think they have a top 5 quality lineup that can either show up and dominate, or get held to under 3 runs. They are just way too streaky for my liking.
I love how Gardenhire run the Twins, but I still think that Scioscia, Torre, and even Francona are better. I hope that Ron is there for a long tenure like Kelly.
goodplaye
21. Apr, 2010
not enough pitching to be the best team in baseball. should definitely win the brutal central though.
Stake
21. Apr, 2010
Liriano is back! Potential Cy Young.
El Rey
21. Apr, 2010
The Rays are the scariest team in baseball.I absolutely hate them.