Its over

What an ending. In the words of Bart Simpson it was “craptacular”.

It was a bad ending to a great season. What a season it was. With the wonderful turnaround in June after getting rid of dead weight the Twins ended up winning the division but then were swept in the playoffs.

They couldn’t have looked much worse doing it either.

They played bad defense and made many errors and a huge mental error by Torii.

They played poor offense. They showed no patience at the plate and often got themselves out. It doesn’t show but Morneau did hit the ball very good all series. They only got 1 hit with runners in scoring position in 3 games and hit 4 solo homeruns.

They pitched very good but not quite good enough.

They did not do the “little things” well. And they have done the “little things” well since Gardy began managing this team. They couldn’t bunt when they wanted to and shouldn’t have bunted or stolen at times they did. Castillo was caught stealing in the 1st game and Tori bunted with no out and a runner on second. He was one of the Twins’ hottest hitters down the stretch. He should be the last person bunting when it is so obvious the Twins need to score runs.

Gardy made some poor decisions, mostly with his bullpen. He did not use his best relievers in high leverage situations.

I don’t know if he gets the team ready mentally. Every playoff series the Twins play the Twins look absolutely lost in the field and at the plate. Even the series they won in 2002 they made tons of mistakes. I think this is something that needs to be looked into.

With all of that being said anything can happen in a short series. Even the worst team has a fair chance to beat the best team. So 2 evenly matched teams can easily have a sweep, it happens.

It was still a great and fun season to watch.

Here is to a great run this year and an even better run next year.

Cheers.