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Minnesota Twins Spring Training Countdown: 19, Knoblauch’s 1996 HBP

The Minnesota Twins are preparing for a 2018 season with expectations after making the playoffs in 2017 as a Wild Card. We will have bring out numbers from team history that represent the number of days until spring training from now until pitchers and catchers report on February 13th.

Minnesota Twins players have often had a national reputation for tempting pitchers by standing over the plate or taking batting stances that drew plenty of contact, yet no player did it more over a career or in a single year than Chuck Knoblauch, who owns the Twins career HBP top spot with 74 and the single-season top spot with 19 from 1996.