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good morning and welcome to episode 136 of effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball

prospectus. In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh joined as always by Sam Miller and joined

tonight by Mike Bates and Bill Parker who are here to talk about the twins. Hello guys.

Hello. How are you doing? Good. This is our last AL Central preview so we will dispense with the

twins and then we will also Pete Barrett will talk to Phil Miller from the Star Tribune after we

are done with with Phil and Mike. So we are doing the twins today because of where they finished

in the division last year. If we were to do a season preview series based on last season order

of finished next year, would we be doing the twins in the same order? That is a terrible way to

ask that question. What I meant is... But an accurate one, I mean, is this a less-place

team again? Is there any reason to think that things will go better than the... Oh my word.

I don't know. Bill, are you any more optimistic about this year than I am?

No, no. My answer is certainly not.

I think we have resigned ourselves to both of us or twins fans. So I think we've both kind of

resigned ourselves to the fact that we're going to spend a great deal of the season frustrated and

angry and maybe drunk. And yeah, I think last place is well within our grasp.

Is this a well-run team right now? Honestly, I like what they've been doing this

off season. I've been one of the relatively few twins fans who didn't want to see them do

anything that would make them any better this year. And I really don't think they have.

But they've, you know, the traits they've made to bring in

Meyer and Trevor May and really improve the farm system and with guys that could be helpful

in the next year or two. I mean, it's no longer a real long-term plan. And so I was impressed by that.

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