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Minnesota Twins: 5 New Year’s resolutions for the 2020 Twins

By Chris Schad

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - SEPTEMBER 06: Nelson Cruz #23 and Miguel Sano #22 of the Minnesota Twins are presented an award by the Minneapolis bomb squad for the setting the MLB single season home run record before the game against the Cleveland Indians of the game on SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - SEPTEMBER 06: Nelson Cruz #23 and Miguel Sano #22 of the Minnesota Twins are presented an award by the Minneapolis bomb squad for the setting the MLB single season home run record before the game against the Cleveland Indians of the game on SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images) /
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN – OCTOBER 25: (L-R) Chief Baseball Officer Derek Falvey, Manager Rocco Baldelli and General Manager Thad Levine of the Minnesota Twins speak as Baldelli is introduced at a press conference at Target Field on October 25, 2018 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images) /

For the Twins’ front office to be more aggressive

Since Derek Falvey and Thad Levine took over the Twins front office after the 2016 season, they have been looking to build something special in Minnesota. It took some time to recover from the “Total System Failure” that resulted in a franchise-record 103 losses in that 2016 campaign, but the fruits of their labor came up big in a 101-win 2019 that came with an American League Central title.

Along the way, the Twins have done mostly good things such as building one of the strongest farm systems in baseball, hiring Rocco Baldelli and finding free agents that wouldn’t break the bank, but also would play a key role in turning the Twins into a contender again.

With the Twins looking for bigger and better things, now is the time for Falvey and Levine to be aggressive, but we haven’t seen that in the past calendar year. The Twins balked at the price of starting pitching at the trade deadline and although they pushed to sign several free agents, the only acquisition has been retaining Jake Odorizzi and Michael Pineda.

The Twins have a young stable of players that can lead them to a championship and although there are high-level players that the Twins don’t want to part with, there are others in the lower levels of their system that could help add that player to put them over the top.

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