On this week's edition of the Twins Insider podcast, La Velle E. Neal III and I tried to get to the bottom of an important question both of us have been asked a lot lately: Are the Twins for real? We settled on a tentative "yes," but really you should listen to the whole thing on iTunes or Startribune.com.
What we can definitively say, though, is this: 2017 has been so much better than 2016. As if you needed a lot of proof to believe that a team that is 25-18 near the end of May is better than a team that was 25-54 on July 1 last season, here are some comparisons between the two on the same date - May 26 - this year and last:
Record
2016: 12-34
2017: 25-18
Record vs. Royals
2016: 1-5
2017: 7-1