{"id":628052,"date":"2026-03-17T12:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/628052\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:39:22","slug":"greatest-twins-moments-performances-a-twinkie-town-definitive-list-round-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/628052\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Twins Moments &#038; Performances: A Twinkie Town Definitive List (Round 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the 2001-2002 offseason, the Minnesota Twins franchise was nearly extinguished. The harebrained and somewhat nefarious contraction scheme hatched by MLB Commissioner Bud Selig\u2014and seemingly fully endorsed by Twins owner Carl Pohlad\u2014put MN on the brink of being baseball-less. Fortunately, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twinkietown.com\/2020\/5\/24\/21269101\/harry-crump-the-judge-who-saved-the-minnesota-twins-and-his-amazing-resume\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hennepin County Judge Harry Crump\u2019s<\/a> ironclad interpretation of stadium lease laws kept the team from pulling up stakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The newbie: Buck trucks a cycle!<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Liriano out-duels Roger Clemens (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Sano Slams the Division Door (2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the 2001-2002 offseason, the Minnesota Twins franchise was nearly extinguished. The harebrained and somewhat nefarious contraction scheme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,822,60,67362,3190,4,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-628052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-twins","11":"tag-minnesota-twins-history","12":"tag-minnesotatwins","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116244563256141117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}