{"id":660730,"date":"2026-04-03T12:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660730\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:31:04","slug":"the-2016-twins-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660730\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 Twins and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Within a week and a half, it had all imploded in inexplicable fashion. This is an oral history of the 0-9 start\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It almost defied reality: three series into the 2016 season and the Twins had yet to make a mark in the left-hand column. The absolute personification of the \u201cyou can\u2019t win a pennant in April\u2014but you can lose one\u201d maxim. Our boys of late-spring would <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fvideo%2Frecap-laa-4-min-5-c593234383%3FpartnerId%3Dweb_video-playback-page_video-share\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post a victory<\/a> in Game 10 of the campaign, but the tone of \u201816 had been irrevocably set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Within a week and a half, it had all imploded in inexplicable fashion. This is an oral history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660731,"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-660730","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660730","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=660730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}