Twins thrive on affordable home cooking

The Minnesota Twins have an owner, Carl Pohlad, who’s pathologically unwilling to invest in his own product despite having billions in his coffers. Their ballpark calls to mind a giant garage. Their offseasons are notable for the exoduses of popular veterans, and their trade deadlines come and go in resolute silence. As small-market success stories go, the Twins always seem to get short shrift.

In the early part of this decade, it was the Moneyball A’s who held us in rapt attention, and these days it’s Tampa Bay who gets the column inches. Still and yet, the Twins win and win often. There’s a simple reason for that — the Minnesota Twins are the best organization in baseball.