Our final memorable Twins moment comes to us, fittingly, from just last season. In a rough year for Twins Territory, Byron Buxton was perhaps the one-and-only shining star. Never more than on this day\u2026<\/p>\n
Per famous philosophizer Porky Pig<\/a>: \u201cTh-th-th-that\u2019s all, folks!\u201d Hopefully both a fun and at least somewhat accurate-if-subjective look at this franchise\u2019s standout moments. A few closing observations\u2026<\/p>\n The Champs Are Here (again)<\/p>\n As per the usual, moments from the championship seasons of 1987 & 1991 ruled the roost. But even with post-\u201991 Twins baseball not (as yet) yielding a trophy-wielding bunch, standout achievements from 2000+ were well-represented. Big flies from the likes of Brian Dozier & Jim Thome plus jump-out-of-your-seat jolts from Denard Span & Jason Kubel all prevailed eventually. Even my\u2014and Ron Gardenhire\u2019s office decor\u2019s\u2014mortal nemesis<\/a> Kyle Lohse made an appearance!<\/p>\n \u201cOthers Receiving Votes\u201d<\/p>\n Though not winning a round, these moments did receive some of your clicks:<\/p>\n Other than Miranda\u2019s on-base streak which was easier to be outrightly memorable because it was an every-PA achievement, I didn\u2019t really know how to deal with long streaks in this reckoning. So, the team winning streaks of 1991, 2024<\/a>, & 2025<\/a> did not make an appearance. The same logic applied to Ken Landreaux\u2019s franchise-best 31-game hitting streak in 1980. Rod Carew\u2019s .388 campaign of 1977 also deserved a voting opportunity as did \u201cthe general personage of Tony Oliva\u201d. But as the weeks went on, the list gravitated towards short-term moments or bursts of productivity rather than season or weeks-long efforts.<\/p>\n Thank you to everyone who chimed in on this series over the long offseason! When you wake up tomorrow morning, meaningful baseball will be back!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our final memorable Twins moment comes to us, fittingly, from just last season. In a rough year for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640581,"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-640580","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\/116284070109589070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640580","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=640580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}