There’s just one month to go until pitchers and catchers report for Spring Training. The first full squad practise will take place about a week after that. Baseball is just around the corner again. It brings many questions with it for a young, talented but unproven Minnesota Twins team. Puckett’s Pond takes a look at the present situation of each position: which roles are a lock and which positions are a question mark.
We’ll begin with the locks. The majority of the starting roles are well defined and the following are close to certain (barring injury of course):
1B – Joe Mauer
LF – Miguel Sano
DH – Byung-ho Park
SP – Ervin Santana
SP – Phil Hughes
SP – Kyle Gibson
RP – Glen Perkins
RP – Kevin Jepsen
The following are likely but not set in stone:
CF – Byron Buxton
RF – Eddie Rosario
SS – Eduardo Escobar
SP – Tyler Duffey
RP – Trevor May
RP – Casey Fien
Jorge Polanco and Max Kepler are dark horse candidates to win starting roles at SS and OF respectively.