Puckett's Pond » One Hit Wonders http://puckettspond.com A Minnesota Twins Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sat, 25 May 2013 16:54:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 In Praise of the One Hit Wonders http://puckettspond.com/2011/10/23/in-praise-of-the-one-hit-wonders/ http://puckettspond.com/2011/10/23/in-praise-of-the-one-hit-wonders/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:50:14 +0000 http://puckettspond.com/?p=6361 Baseball’s greatest legends, like music’s greatest legends, are so famous that even non-fans know their names. Who hasn’t heard of Babe Ruth or the Beatles? But for every Harmon Killebrew or Elvis Presley, there are dozens of performers who looked like the next big thing, only to be completely forgotten a few years later. 

Danny Valencia had a great rookie campaign in 2010, but he faded in 2011. Will he correct his issues and return to prominence next year? Or will he be baseball’s latest version of Dexy’s Midnight Runners? Only time will tell.

But there are plenty of players in Twins history who did become One-Hit Wonders. They wowed fans for a season and then fell back to the middle or the back of the pack. The following is a countdown of my picks for the greatest One Hit Wonders in Twins history. In a perfect world, this would be a Top 40 countdown, but that would take up way too much space, so I’ll just give you the top five. For context, I’ve paired each Twins player with a hit song that came out the same year.

#5: Bobby Castillo and Toni Basil, 1982.

 Bobby Castillo spent several years with the Dodgers in the last ’70s and early ’80s. He didn’t accomplish much with L.A., aside from earning a 1981 World Series ring. (more…)

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