The Minnesota Twins are in free fall and fans are beginning to make their displeasure heard loud and clear.
The Twins have never been big spenders alongside some of baseball’s heavyweights, but they have been contenders on and off again over the years. They have nine division titles since 2002, including most recently in 2023. They also had a winning record last year.
But it’s also been 34 years since the Twins won a World Series. And things have gone south in a hurry in 2025 thanks to an enormous firesale like we’ve never seen at the trade deadline. Minnesota sent pretty much half their active roster packing in an attempt to cut payroll and fans are targeting their frustration towards the Pohlad family that owns the team.
After the Twins lost a hotly contested game to the Tigers on Thursday night, fans drowned out the postgame show with a “sell the team” chant.
Loud “SELL THE TEAM” chants behind Tim Laudner on the Twins postgame show pic.twitter.com/sDFxtGLBb7
— CJ Fogler 🫡 (@cjzero) August 15, 2025
While business has been booming for Major League Baseball across a number of different metrics, this isn’t the first time a fanbase has resorted to such a drastic message. We saw the same one in Oakland as the Athletics have embarked on one of the messiest relocation sagas in the history of American professional sports thanks to owner John Fisher.
However, fans will not get their wish even though they had their hopes up over reports of a possible sale. Instead of selling the team, the Pohlad family is now seeking additional investors to help give the franchise a boost. That likely won’t be good enough for Twins fans who are tired of languishing in baseball no man’s land. Unfortunately, they are one of many teams with ownership that seems happy to do the bare minimum to build a competitor while the gap between baseball’s rich and poor becomes wider by the day.
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