Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan shekara guda inda Twins suka buga wasan baseball.500 a mafi yawan kakar, kungiyar ta lashe wasanni 17 daga cikin wasanni 21 da suka gabata don daidaitawa da Detroit Tigers don jagora a Rukunin Tsakiya. Twins sun sami damar amfani da dokar wasa a cikin wasan don amfanin su lokacin da suka lashe AL Central a ƙarshen kakar wasa ta yau da kullun ta hanyar wasan yanke hukunci na 6<unk>5 wanda ya ƙare tare da tafiya ta 12th da Alexi Casilla ya buga zuwa filin dama, wanda ya zira kwallaye Carlos Gómez. Duk da haka, sun kasa ci gaba zuwa gasar zakarun Turai na Amurka yayin da suka rasa gasar zakarun Turai na Amurka.
a wasanni uku a jere ga zakaran gasar cin kofin duniya New York Yankees. A waccan shekarar, Joe Mauer ya zama mai karɓar na biyu a cikin shekaru 33 don lashe kyautar AL MVP. Iván Rodríguez ya lashe Texas Rangers a 1999, kafin wannan, mai karɓar karshe don lashe AL MVP shine New York Yankees Thurman Munson a 1976.