Minnesota Twins’ Best Players
The history of the Minnesota Twins has involved many Hall of Fame players. They have had some good seasons and some bad seasons while winning the World Series twice. While advancing to the Championship Series five times, they have made the playoffs ten times. . There have been a couple guys who have made this all possible. They are Hall of Famers or future Hall of Famers. They are Joe Mauer, Kirby Puckett, and Harmon Killebrew. I am going to tell you more about their awesome careers and significant stats that will amaze you.
The first player I am going to tell you about is considered the best hitting catcher of all time. He has three batting titles and has been to six All-Star games. His name is Joe Mauer. Mauer made his MLB debut for the Twins in 2003, but only played in three games because of a leg injury. His first really good season was in 2006, when he hit .347 with a .429 OBP and hit 13 home runs with 84 RBIs. This was his first ever batting title. In 2007, he was injured for a couple months of the season, while his average dipped to .293. He 2008, he rebounded with a .328 batting average with a .413 OBP with nine home runs and 85 RBIs. In 2009, Mauer had an incredible year. He started the year on the disabled list where he was all of April. His first game back was on May 1, and on his first swing, he hit a home run. He ended up 28 home runs and 96 RBIs that year along with an incredible .365 batting average and an amazing .444 OBP. He put up similar numbers in 2010 except that his homers decreased a little bit. In 2011 he was hurt for most of the year, which meant that his numbers went way down, but in 2012 he was back on track. In 2013, he was also hurt quite a bit, but put up quality numbers....
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...d 135 runs. He then put up nine more incredible years with consistently hitting over 40 home runs and 100 RBIs. He then got hurt and was never really the same after that. He played four more years for the Twins, and then was traded to the Kansas City Royals in 1975. Over his 22-year career, he hit 573 round-trippers and led or tied the league in home runs six times. He belted 40 or more in eight different seasons and had 100 or more RBIs in nine different occasions. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984 by baseball writers. As you can tell, Killebrew was consistently an amazing player for the Minnesota Twins.
As you can see, the Minnesota Twins have produced a very good talent at the major league level in every decade of their franchise existence. Thanks to these three guys, the Twins have been a pretty consistent team over their years.
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