After a few tough losses in Cleveland, the Minnesota Twins have won six out of their last seven games, including wins against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway and a sweep of the Baltimore Orioles at home.

The Twins look like they’ve found their groove. They are starting the month of May outscoring the opposition 35-22 and getting it done in every aspect of the game.

Still, there’s a lot of baseball to be played. The Twins are 7 games behind the Detroit Tigers in first place and 4 ½ games behind the Cleveland Guardians and Kansas City Royals.

Minnesota can get back in the race, especially since there are many games against the division still to be played. However, after last season’s meltdown and this season’s slow start, it’s easy to be skeptical about the current win streak.

Digging deeper into the wins and losses of the series they’ve played, they have won in half of the dozen completed, with only two of those series victories against AL Central competition. Both were against the White Sox. Neither was a sweep, and they have been Chicago’s only divisional wins. The White Sox are 2-14 against the AL Central.

They have dropped a series each to the other three teams in the division.

The Twins have won four of their last five series. The only team to drop one? Those pesky Guardians seem to have had Minnesota’s number in the past couple of years, especially in close games.

Okay, enough of the doom and gloom, let’s look ahead. Onward and upward.

To understand the current situation, let’s look at recent trends and which players are producing for Minnesota before facing some difficult opponents in the next couple of weeks, including the Guardians and the Royals.

The offense seems to have found some magic, rattling off big innings throughout games.

Byron Buxton has been a big contributor. He has been on base at least once per game since April 23 and leads the team in RBIs (25), stolen bases (8), and HRs (9). He has hit three of those home runs in consecutive games.

Ty France and Harrison Bader are offseason additions who have also been clutch. France and Bader are team leaders in average and on-base percentage, and they join Buxton in leading the team in homers and driving runs.

Bader has also been on base in every game he has participated in since April 25, including a two-run blast on Wednesday in a pinch-hitting situation, the first of his career.

Minnesota’s pitching has also been stellar lately, not just because they have a stellar rotation. Of the 22 runs the Twins have given up in early May, the relievers have given up 10 in 27.2 innings of work.

The starters are starting to go deeper into games, and most can complete five-plus consistently.

Bailey Ober, Pablo López, and Joe Ryan continue their dominance after a slow start to the season. They lead the team in strikeouts and walks and have all of the team’s quality starts besides one.

Ober, López, and Ryan throw over 85 pitches per start. Rocco Baldelli trusts in their stuff and believes they can get themselves out of trouble and limit the damage when laboring.

The best example of this was Thursday afternoon against Baltimore. Ober found himself in plenty of positions where the O’s had runners on second and third with one or fewer outs.

Ober hung in, and five of his six punchouts came in these situations in a game where the O’s went 2 for 13 with runners in scoring position.

The Twins can also rely on their bullpen if the starters can’t get deep into the game. Minnesota’s relief corps is starting to look like the bullpen projected to be the best in baseball.

Griffin Jax has been lights out since mid-April, giving up only one run in nine appearances. Jhoan Duran consistently pitches over 100 mph, has only given up two runs in 18 appearances this season, and has picked up saves in his last four games.

These pitchers don’t just show off their abilities on the mound. They have also been dynamic on the field. St. Paul’s Louis Varland had a spectacular defensive play with two on and two out against the Orioles, showing that pitchers might be the most athletic players on the field.

Although the Twins started their 2025 campaign slowly, things seem to have come together since the calendar flipped to May. With pitching, hitting, and fielding all coming together, one question remains.

Can these trends and players continue to figure it out against those they see most often?