Pitching has won in baseball for 150 years and right now we have none. Ryan is inconsistent as a rookie will be. Gray has fallen off the face of the earth. Smeltzer was a nice story ala dobnak but has also since dropped off. Winder is an unknown. Everyone else, meh. The bullpen is a bunch of nothingness outside of duran. The twins would be decided underdogs against any other American League playoff contender (and possibly even some outside the playoff picture).
And then there’s this:
The twins are top 5 in the AL in many offensive categories, but they do not get the big hits when needed. And everyone on the planet knows those situations win playoff games. So the two biggest things that win you playoff games, pitching and situation hitting, the twins do not do well. This is almost certainly another playoff sweep in the making. Chicago would do us all a favor by getting hot and passing us by