There have been so many amazing and gratifying things about the performance of the Twins over the last month. Most of them have been plenty well documented, but it’s still pretty mindblowing (and mindboggling) all the same.
The truth, of course, is that the Twins really should have five All Stars –Francisco Liriano, Justin Morneau, and Joe Nathan should all be joining Joe Mauer and Johan Santana in Pittsburgh. Nathan is the only guy whose snub isn’t a complete injustice.
And great as Mauer has been, and as wondrous as he is to watch, the offensive MVP of the team at this point has to be Morneau. It’s hard to argue with twenty-two homeruns and seventy-one runs batted in. I’m too lazy to dig around for the stats myself, but I’d love to see the number of his homeruns and RBI that have given the Twins the lead or come with two outs.
Mauer, frankly, is something of a mystery to me. Maybe it’s just a fluke, or maybe he needs to be moved to somewhere else in the batting order, but I can’t for the life of me understand how a guy with a .391 batting average, .458 on base percentage, and .546 slugging percentage –hitting in the three hole every night– is fourth on the team in RBI and tied for fourth (with Morneau) in runs scored.
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