The Minnesota Twins for years have been trying to capture the magic that the pitching staff had when it included the likes of recently inducted Twins Hall of Fame member Johan Santana and Brad Radke among others. Ever since the trade of Santana, it has seemed that the Twins have been way behind the rest of the league when it comes to their pitching staff. That tide seems to be changing.
The change to the culture of the Twins pitching throughout the organization has been in process for some time now. It started in the Terry Ryan era where the Twins started to draft pitchers that resembled power pitchers much more than the pitch-to-contact variety Twins fans had grown accustomed to.