Pitching coach Neil Allen rejoined the Twins on Thursday after six weeks away because of an alcohol-related driving arrest and thanked the team for helping him get straight.
"They could have very easily told me to take a hike," Allen told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "But they probably saved my life by putting me into that program."
Allen, 58, spent five weeks in an outpatient treatment program for alcohol addiction. He was arrested May 26 after what he said was his first time drinking since giving up alcohol in 1994. The Twins put him on indefinite suspension.