Shortly after April turned into May, the Minnesota Twins saw themselves in the middle of an 8-game losing streak. During that time, in a Minneapolis Star-Tribune interview with Chip Scoggins, owner Jim Pohlad coined the phrase for this Twins season, “It’s just a total system failure.”
“Total system failure” was uttered when Minnesota’s record stood at 8-20, and now the Twins have played another 28 games since then. Their record in the second 28? 8-20. They truly have looked better in these past 4 weeks, but close, competitive losses still count as losses.
What’s strange is that this team looks so good at times against quality pitching.