Quick! Name 3 Twins starters with a first name that doesn't start with a "J." (Yeah that excludes former MVPs Justin Morneau and Joe Mauer)
Maybe you get Denard Span or Delmon Young who is hitting right around .300 with 18 jacks and over 100 RBI. But probably not. I don't know. Maybe I'm underestimating your knowledge of mid-major teams.
What you do know is its October and that means the season is over. No, not just summer but the baseball season as contenders have separated themselves from pretenders who are now officially mathematically eliminated.
"Their success is not supported by or founded on free-spirited financial philosophies focused on finding high-priced free agents."
The Twins are still around. Every year. They are the exception. Their success is not supported by or founded on free-spirited financial philosophies focused on finding high-priced free agents. They even got their home town hero to resign at a discounted rate when he could have collected and made bank as the game's second best player and by far the premier player at his position.
Not only is it rare for teams to develop their own talent and have it translate to wins but even more so to sustain it by keeping those players. Look at the Tampa Bay Rays. They could easily win the World Series but star Carl Crawford just might be too good. Too good for pitchers who try to keep him off base, catchers who try to stop him from stealing them and the Rays who want to just keep him, but can't afford to.
That's what makes the Twins so amazing, their ability to balance their budget and bottomline while staying atop the division.
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