I remember one of the first series of the season when the Twins got kicked by lowly Baltimore. I was bummed that the Twins couldn't even beat a team as bad as they were.
By the next time we faced Baltimore, I noticed they were still playing well and that their starting pitching was actually pretty good.
Flash forward to today. The Orioles are tied for FIRST place with the all-mighty Yankees with less than a month to go in the regular season.
Even cooler? They aren't the only horrible team that made a big turnaround this season. The Washington Nationals have a HUGE 7 1/2 game lead in their division riding the incredible arm of Stephen Stasburg.
There are only 6 divisions in baseball and two of the leaders have payrolls that make the big boys blush. Even other small market teams like Oakland and Pittsburgh are having remarkably competitive seasons.
The Twins are down, but they aren't out. One year turnarounds are possible with a couple of good pitchers and a few good guys who can hit the ball. This year is definitely NOT the Twins year. But with baseball the way it is, NEXT year could be.
If we could just figure out a way of keeping Mauer AND reducing his enormous salary I'd be more optimistic.
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