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No, this collapse is about the lineup. The Twins have more than enough good hitters, but they don’t stay on the field. This year, key absences and injury-related slumps happened at the same time that many of the support players hit a wall. Parallel to that, two rotation spots went kablooey (as did, occasionally, Lopez and Ober), increasing the need for runs at the exact time the hitters stopped providing them.
