“But if I ran the zoo…I’d make a few changes…that’s just what I’d do”
The last two months of the 2025 Twins season produced some of the most painful-to-watch baseball this side of 2011-2014 & 2016—if not the That Which Shall Not Be Named late-1990s.
Assuming that no major reinforcements are on the way, I present to you my five-step plan for playing relevant baseball in 2026.
Step 1: Keep Pablo Days & the Joe Ryan Experience
Step 3: Get serious about defense
Step 5: No more bunting excuses
None of these steps preclude the “usual suspects” of bullpen-building and hitting/power development. But instead of riding slim pen percentages and swinging for the fences to try and override the “little stuff”, I’d like to see this team solid on the fundamentals and then build from there.