The opinion here long has been that the most unwatchable team in Twins history was the 1981 collection. There were two positive elements to that season:
One, the wisecracking Billy Gardner replaced Johnny Goryl as the manager on May 22; and two, a players' strike stopped the season June 11 and it did not resume until Aug. 10.
… They were 17-39 before the strike and then 24-29 after the strike. That was a combined record of 41-68 for a winning percentage of .376.
The Twins were non-contenders for most of the '70s, they had eight consecutive losing seasons from 1993 through 2000, and the four seasons of immense losing from 2011 to 2014.
Even those teams were not as grotesque as 1981.
I didn't think it was possible to see a Twins team as bad in all areas as that one.
And then came these 2016 Twins:
Patrick Reusse
