Back in March, if you would have told someone that the Minnesota Twins would be coming out of the All-Star break with a 5 1/2 lead in the American League Central, they would have thought you were out of your mind. The Twins came off a disastrous season in 2018 and while they finished in second place in the division, they still had plenty of holes with a record of 78-84.
The offseason didn’t do much to quell the concerns of Twins Territory either, as Minnesota passed on Manny Machado and Bryce Harper to sign their own guys (Max Kepler, Jorge Polanco) and add complementary pieces on the market.