Baby steps. That’s what this season needs to be broken down into. The Detroit Tigers sit 4.5 games above the Twins in the AL Central standings, the closest team to Minnesota. A well-played 3 game weekend series at Target Field against their closest rivals can help bring the Twins back to the pack, record-wise.
Former manager Tom Kelly was fond of breaking the season into quarters, telling his team not to get too up or down, just play hard this quarter. Within each quarter, he’d set goals for the next ten games.
He preached the “one game at a time” philosophy hard into the young Twins of the 1980’s.