Great comparison - that Brewers team was thrilling and likeable and like the Twins there were no breaks going through the lineup. You didn't mention Jim Gantner who if I recall batted ninth with a .290 average (back in the days when people cared about batting average). Also, their backup catcher was a guy named Ned Yost.
The Twins also have a reasonable shot of hitting a "gross" of home runs this year: a dozen players with at least a dozen home runs. I'm pretty sure that's never been done, either. Ten players have already hit 12 or more, and Buxton has 10 and Cave has 7 at this point.
This year's Yankees also have 10 players at 12+ home runs, plus Clint Frazier at 11, Mike Ford and Edwin Encarnacion both at 10, and Cameron Maybin at 8.
The twins are fun but I feel like there has to be an interesting story to write about Cleveland and the franchise has largely been ignored outside the 22 game win streak in 2017
The Twins, of course, will lose to the Yankees in the playoffs......
Just wanted to provide a handy link to go along with Joe’s “Two and two to Harvey Kuenn” mention: https://archive.org/details/VinScullyCallsThe9thInningOfSandyKoufaxsPerfectGame
Great comparison - that Brewers team was thrilling and likeable and like the Twins there were no breaks going through the lineup. You didn't mention Jim Gantner who if I recall batted ninth with a .290 average (back in the days when people cared about batting average). Also, their backup catcher was a guy named Ned Yost.
The Twins also have a reasonable shot of hitting a "gross" of home runs this year: a dozen players with at least a dozen home runs. I'm pretty sure that's never been done, either. Ten players have already hit 12 or more, and Buxton has 10 and Cave has 7 at this point.
This year's Yankees also have 10 players at 12+ home runs, plus Clint Frazier at 11, Mike Ford and Edwin Encarnacion both at 10, and Cameron Maybin at 8.
The twins are fun but I feel like there has to be an interesting story to write about Cleveland and the franchise has largely been ignored outside the 22 game win streak in 2017