4 Twins who deserve the most blame for embarrassing collapse to miss playoffs

Everyone deserves blame for the Minnesota's meltdown, but a few guys stick out as having let the team down even more.
Everyone deserves blame for the Minnesota Twins' collapse, but a few guys stick out as having let the team down even more.
Everyone deserves blame for the Minnesota Twins' collapse, but a few guys stick out as having let the team down even more. | Stephen Maturen/GettyImages
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Ryan Jeffers

At the start of the season Ryan Jeffers was on a tear that suggested he might be a huge part of the future. That was short-lived though, and his' role in the Twins' collapse has soured the positives he had earlier in the season.

Kyle Farmer has gotten a lot of flack this season for how bad he's been offensively, but the gap between him and Jeffers isn't that big. Since mid-May, Jeffers has hit .196/.269/.339 which is significantly worse than where Farmer will finish the season (he's closer to .223 thanks to a nice hot streak in early-September).

Jeffers had 10 home runs through the first two months of the season, but ended up hitting just 10 more over the last four. His defense started to become a liability as well, which was one of the more troubling parts about his slump considering how that was his chance to have a bit of saving grace.

There was once a conversation about Jeffers first splitting time with Christian Vazquez and then taking a bigger share of the starting catcher role. Both are under contract for 2025 but it's hard to see the Twins moving forward with a ton of confidence in Jeffers after what we saw out of him over the course of the team's collapse.