The Greatest Minnesota Twin of All Time
It's a pretty good field among the hitters--Killebrew, who won many home run championships versus Puckett, who got lots of hits versus Carew who won many batting average titles, plus guys like Tony Oliva, Kent Hrbek and Gary Gaetti.
The pitchers don't stand out on this team quite as much. Jim Kaat got 189 wins, but the only other guys over 100 are Blyleven (149), Perry (128) Radke (116) and Viola (112).
Let's take Killebrew, Puckett and Carew as the best players. They are currently the only members of the Hall of Fame based mostly on their performance as Twins. Carew has the highest batting average at .334, while Puckett hit.318 and Killebrew only .260. Despite this, Killebrew was by far the best offensive player of the three. He knocked in and scored a total of 2372 runs, over 200 more than Puckett and almost 700 more than Carew. Much of that was due to his incredible power (475 career homers).
