The Minnesota Twins had a pretty good team back in 1970, good enough to win 98 games and finish first in the AL West under skipper Bill Rigney. The team was either in first or second place all year long and was never more than a game out of the lead. The Twins were beaten (pretty badly) three games to none in the ALCS against the Baltimore Orioles for the second year in a row.
The Twins top pitcher was Jim Perry who led the league with 40 starts completing 13 of them and won a league leading 24 games which earned him the American League Cy Young award after the season ended. In addition to the above pitchers, only two other Twins pitchers started games that season, Bill Zepp and Tommy Hall. The Twins pitching ranked second in 1970.
Bert Blyleven became a starter when Luis Tiant was injured and lost for the season. The picture is probably from Spring Training that year and Blyleven was not yet pegged as a starter for the team.
just a hair before I became a fan, remember getting the cards as a kid where the Orioles smoked them in the league playoff…Jims son Chris was a great golfer for Edina, where I went to HS…great team