The Minnesota Twins had high expectations entering the 2018 season. The team was coming off of a playoff appearance, albeit a short one with an all too familiar first round loss to the New York Yankees, and fans reasonably expected 2018 to at least live up to what we saw from the team in 2017.
Obviously, that didn’t happen. The Twins found themselves 6 games under .500 and 7.5 games back from the Cleveland Indians in the AL Central going into the All-Star break. Any hopes of coming out hot after the break and putting together a nice win streak to get back into the mix were immediately squashed following a 3-game sweep by the Kansas City Royals, pushing the Twins to a 44-53 record and 9.