Minnesota Twins 2024 preview: Stories that should shape the season

The start of baseball season is a time for optimism, especially for a team that made the playoffs the previous year. But mixed in with those hopes are a few concerns. Here’s the Star Tribune’s look at what’s ahead in 2024.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
March 28, 2024 at 4:54AM
The play of veterans Carlos Correa and Max Kepler will help determine the Twins' success in 2024. (Gerald Herbert/The Associated Press)

When the Twins take the field for their season openers — at Kansas City on Thursday afternoon and a week later against the Guardians at Target Field — it will start a six-month pursuit that’s intended to have a better ending that last season when the Twins were eliminated by Houston in the American league Divisional Series. Here’s our look at some of the players and issues that will help determine whether expectations are met . . . or disappointment sets in.

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