A year after doing a near-total overhaul of their roster, and obsessing for four months over a Johan Santana trade, the Twins enter the offseason with far less work to do on a team that nearly won the AL Central. 

--1B Justin Morneau became only the third baseball player to be selected Canadian Athlete of the Year when the nation's sports writers and broadcasters' voting was announced Dec. 

A year after doing a near-total overhaul of their roster, and obsessing for four months over a Johan Santana trade, the Twins enter the offseason with far less work to do on a team that nearly won the AL Central. 

--1B Justin Morneau became only the third baseball player to be selected Canadian Athlete of the Year when the nation's sports writers and broadcasters' voting was announced Dec. 

A year after doing a near-total overhaul of their roster, and obsessing for four months over a Johan Santana trade, the Twins enter the offseason with far less work to do on a team that nearly won the AL Central. 

--1B Justin Morneau became only the third baseball player to be selected Canadian Athlete of the Year when the nation's sports writers and broadcasters' voting was announced Dec. 

A year after doing a near-total overhaul of their roster, and obsessing for four months over a Johan Santana trade, the Twins enter the offseason with far less work to do on a team that nearly won the AL Central. 

He's a catcher, so Joe Mauer has learned to live with lingering aches and pains. 

He's a catcher, so Joe Mauer has learned to live with lingering aches and pains. 

He's a catcher, so Joe Mauer has learned to live with lingering aches and pains. 

He's a catcher, so Joe Mauer has learned to live with lingering aches and pains. 

Joe Mauer is recovering from surgery to correct "a minor kidney obstruction that he's had since birth,"MinnesotaTwins general manager Bill Smith said today. 

DETROIT -- The 1962 New York Mets generally are accepted as the most pathetic team in the history of professional sports. 

A year after doing a near-total overhaul of their roster, and obsessing for four months over a Johan Santana trade, the Twins enter the offseason with far less work to do on a team that nearly won the AL Central. 

--DH Randy Ruiz, who batted .