Minnesota Twins Receive Failing Grade

To say the Minnesota Twins had a bad season would be putting it lightly. They have achieved 90 losses and fan interest is at a 25-year low. Despite coming in with sights set on the postseason, everything went wrong.

Ownership made things worse by botching the sale of the team, and that presents more questions than answers moving forward. When looking back on the year that was though, there’s no way to sugar coat just how bad this team has been.

“F” isn’t bad enough for MN Twins

There are just a few games left in the 2025 regular season. The Minnesota Twins head to Philadelphia for a three-game series. It won’t matter how they fare, and the season can’t come to an end soon enough. ESPN’s David Schoenfield assigned grades to every team for their regular season, and it seems he was kind to Minnesota.

This is the kind of season that can set an organization back five years, where it kind of feels like the whole organization has given up. Ownership/management punted at the trade deadline, dealing away 10 players. The Twins reportedly just recently fired four of their five scouts in the pro scouting department as well. Following the deadline, the team completely tanked on the field, with only the Rockies owning a worse record in the final two months. All this after payroll was cut following the 2023 playoff season and after last year’s late-season collapse. As always, the Pohlads never disappoint in their willingness to pinch pennies.

David Schoenfield – ESPN

Minnesota joined Atlanta and Washington as the only teams to earn an “F” grade. The Colorado Rockies were hit with an “F-.” It’s hard to fathom why the Twins didn’t achieve the worst mark of any team.

This collection was expected to compete and they haven’t. Derek Falvey largely ran back the same roster that colossally fell apart down the stretch last season. Then the front office blew everything up at the trade deadline. They have been directed by ownership in a terrible way, and production on the field has continued to sag.

Rocco Baldelli is likely the one who will take the fall for all of this, but the reality is that Minnesota fell over themselves at every juncture all season long. The Nationals and Rockies were expected to be bad, the Twins were not.

How Minnesota moves forward is the key here, and that’s something that won’t start to reveal itself until the offseason. There should be no expectation that payroll increases for 2026, but decision making absolutely has to change.

The Twins flopped in a very ugly and public way this season. Figuring out a better path forward is a must.