{"id":109574,"date":"2025-10-19T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=109574"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:25:00","slug":"report-the-twins-defense-was-statistically-poor-in-2025-and-solutions-arent-readily-apparent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=109574","title":{"rendered":"Report: The Twins defense was statistically poor in 2025, and solutions aren\u2019t readily apparent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>When the Twins evaluate their roster throughout the offseason, they recognize they must improve their defense, especially if they hold any illusions of drastically improving their win total.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>There might not be a simple solution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>The Twins had one of the worst defenses in baseball this year, and it won\u2019t be easily solved without changing the core of the roster. They were graded by Sports Info Solutions as the second-worst defense in the majors, worth negative-46 runs saved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>StatCast wasn\u2019t quite as critical, but the Twins rated 11 outs below average, ranking 23rd among the 30 teams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely an area where we can improve as a team, and I could probably have a note or three for every single one of our guys on the defensive side of the ball for the offseason to think about,\u201d former manager Rocco Baldelli said at the end of the season when he was conducting exit interviews with players.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>First base and left field were the only positions where the Twins graded in the upper half of the league, according to StatCast and Sports Info Solutions, and those two positions were aided by players who were dealt at the trade deadline (Ty France and Harrison Bader). France was the only Twins player who was a Gold Glove finalist at his position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>The Twins ranked a distant last in shortstop defense, per Sports Info Solutions. Carlos Correa didn\u2019t look as agile in the first half of the season, and the Houston Astros promptly moved him to third base after acquiring him at the trade deadline. Brooks Lee, too, was knocked for his lack of range after he inherited the starting shortstop job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>Lee, the No. 8 pick in the 2022 MLB amateur draft, hasn\u2019t hit well enough to profile as a starter at other positions, so it\u2019s prudent he improves his defensive range. The Twins, meanwhile, don\u2019t have another ready-made shortstop. Ryan Fitzgerald shared time at the position in the final two months, and another first-round pick, Kaelen Culpepper, finished the year at Class AA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Info Solutions rated the Twins as the second-worst fielding team in MLB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Report: The Twins defense was statistically poor in 2025, and solutions aren\u2019t readily apparent - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=109574\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Report: The Twins defense was statistically poor in 2025, and solutions aren\u2019t readily apparent - 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