Josh Johnson: I think that it's a poor way to deal with a tie, however I'm sure I'm slightly biased as if it would have went the Twins' way, I probably wouldn't have had a problem. Either way it's always been handled that way, so I doubt it will ever change. But I personally believe that it should be whoever won the season series.

Andrew Kneeland: To put it simply: Rules are rules, but I disagree with them. If I were commish, the Twins should be in Tampa right now. I disagree with the current tiebreak format, but there is nothing I can do about it.

How would you grade the Twins' season as a whole? What went right and what went wrong? What was expected, unexpected?

MA: I had the Twins winning 75-80 games this year.  So the very fact we won 88 games and were playoff hopefuls through game #163 was very unexpected and make me want to give the Twins a high grade.  Had the Twins stuck with Adam Everett at Short, Craig Monroe at DH, Mike Lamb at 3rd and Brendan Harrisat second with Livan Hernandez pitching every fifth day, the Twins would have been lucky to win 80 games.

Instead, Denard Span, Alexi Casilla, Brian Buscher, Randy Ruiz, Matt Tolbert and a young starting rotation made the Twins a winning team.  Add in Jose Mijares and a successful return to the rotation for Francisco Liriano and you have all that went right for the Twins.

The veterans were the failures on this team.

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