To me, the Twins perpetually seem like a stacked team that ends up disappointing in way or another. Last season, they looked ready to take on the world—then they slunk to a 73-89 record and a fifth-place finish. This year, they’re comfortably leading the AL Central, and all of a sudden their pitching coach Wes Johnson leaves to take a job at LSU. Furious that Johnson was being poached in the middle of the season, the Twins asked LSU to wait until the All-Star Break to hire him. LSU refused (a pretty dick move, if you ask me), and now “emotions [in the Twins’ locker room] are running high.
Orioles-Twins series preview: Fresh off a winning month, the O’s visit the first-place Twins
