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Minnesota Twins: A Look Back at Our Opening Day Roster Prediction

With the Minnesota Twins first game of the 2016 season in the books, how accurate was our opening day 25 man roster prediction? We take a look at how close was it was compared to what was actually written on the game card on Monday.

Here’s what we predicted on February 25:

“C: Kurt Suzuki

1B: Joe Mauer

2B: Brian Dozier

SS: Eduardo Escobar

3B: Trevor Plouffe

LF: Eddie Rosario

CF: Byron Buxton

RF: Miguel Sano

DH: Byung Ho Park

Starting Pitchers:

Ervin Santana

Kyle Gibson

Phil Hughes

Tommy Milone

Tyler Duffey

Relievers:

Kevin Jepsen

Glen Perkins

Casey Fien

Trevor May

Ricky Nolasco

Michael Tonkin

Fernando Abad

Bench:

C John Ryan Murphy

INF/OF Eduardo Nunez

OF/INF Danny Santana

OF Oswaldo Arcia

We’ll take 24/25 any day of the week but that one mistake shifted a few other players around.