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RacketCast, Ep. 49: 2026 MN Twins Preview for Dummies Feat. The Athletic’s Aaron Gleeman

Sorry, again, for repeatedly calling our beautiful listeners 'dummies'!

The Athletic

🎶 Take me out to the ball game 🎶
🎶 Take me out with the crowd 🎶
🎶 Buy me some peanuts and RacketCast (?!) 🎶

Calm down! RacketCast will remain free of charge for this (slightly delayed) season preview of your reportedly hopeless 2026 Minnesota Twins.

As always, for no reason in particular, we'll be framing it through the "for dummies" lens, though our guest is no dummy: He's Aaron Gleeman, the best damn baseball writer/reporter in town. You can—and should!—subscribe to and support his Gleeman & the Geek Twins podcast, featuring co-host John Bonnes, here; you can read all of his writing via the Athletic here.

And for the What I Learned in Racket enthusiasts out there, tough luck! We're short-staffed this week, so our usual hoopla-loaded gabbing up top won't hit—very '26 Twins-like, when you think about it—your ears this week. No crying in baseball and podcasting.


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