Has anyone else noticed there’s something going on with the Twins?

Remember when the management tanked the season by trading 40 percent of the active roster at the trade deadline? It was the last week in July. The team bottomed out and on Monday, a day after the team finished the season with 92 losses, the Twins fired manager Rocco Baldelli.

It wasn’t totally crazy, or even unexpected. The Twins missed the playoffs in four of the past five seasons, and it didn’t look great when veteran all-star Pablo Lopez, in the wake of the trade deadline, said that he and the remaining veterans would use the opportunity to “rebuild the culture in the clubhouse.”

“Culture,” he added, “is one thing we’ve been lacking the last couple of years.”

Lopez was talking primarily about teammates, presumably re

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