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Minnesota Twins Opening Day Countdown: 33, Mudcat Grant

The Minnesota Twins are preparing for a 2018 season with expectation with making the playoffs in 2017 as a Wild Card team. We will highlight numbers from team history that represent the number of days until Opening Day on March 29th in Baltimore.

Mudcat Grant was born on August 13, 1935 and would make his debut in major league baseball as a 22-year-old on April 17, 1958, as a member of the Cleveland Indians while facing the Kansas City Athletics. Grant would spend his first seven and a half seasons with the Indians, earning an All-Star appearance in 1963 before being traded to the Twins.