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[FONT=&quot]USA TODAY Sports' Bob Nightengale breaks down the MLB trade market before the deadline.

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[FONT=&quot]The Minnesota Twins have slugged their way to the best record in the major leagues.
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[FONT=&quot]Yes, you read that correctly. "Twins," "slugging" and "best record" is a rare combination, but with home runs being hit at a record-breaking clip this season, they're the ones setting the pace.
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[FONT=&quot]The Twins (33-16) hit eight home runs in Thursday's 16-7 demolition of the Los Angeles Angels, with second baseman Jonathan Schoop and third baseman Miguel Sano leading the way with two apiece.
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[FONT=&quot]And they didn't just hit those homers, they crushed them. Schoop's 467-foot blast in the second inning was one of seven Twins home runs of at least 400 feet.
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[FONT=&quot]Thursday's outburst tied the franchise's single-game record and marked the fourth time this season that Minnesota has hit at least six homers in one game. All the other teams in the majors have done it a total of three times.
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[FONT=&quot]What's especially notable about this team is that Minnesota hasn't been a power-hitting team for a very long time. According to Aaron Gleeman of Baseball Prospectus, the Twins have been out-homered by their opponents in 26 of the last 27 seasons.
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[FONT=&quot]But with an emphasis on analytics championed by chief baseball officer Derek Falvey, general manager Thad Levine and first-year manager Rocco Baldelli, the Twins have joined the fly-ball revolution that has become common throughout the majors and are swinging for the fences.
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[FONT=&quot]The resulting power-hitting explosion has the Twins leading the majors with 98 home runs in their first 49 games. At that pace, they'd finish with 324, which would shatter the single-season record of 267 set a year ago by the New York Yankees.
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Another day, another home run record
Jonathan Schoop and Jason Castro hit back-to-back shots in the fourth inning for Minnesota's 126th and 127th homers of the season, breaking the first-half record of 125 set by the 1964 Twins -- with 24 games remaining before the baseball season's de facto halfway point.

The Major League record for first-half homers belongs to the 2018 Yankees, who hit 161 before the Midsummer Classic. The Twins are currently on pace for 174 in the half and a record-breaking 317 over the course of a full 162-game season.
 

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The Twins now have 262 home runs, five shy of the single-season record set by the New York Yankees last season. Seattle hit 264 in 1997.
 

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