Gulf Coast League Twins Founded in 1991 Fort Myers, Florida
Team Logo Cap Insignia
Class-level
Rookie "A"
Minor league affiliations
Gulf Coast League Southern Division
Major league affiliations
Minnesota Twins
Name
GCL Twins
Ballpark
Lee County Sports Complex
Minor league titles
League titles
Division titles	2007, 2009
Owner(s)/Operated by: Minnesota Twins
Manager: Chris Heintz
General Manager: Tom Saffell

The Gulf Coast League Twins are the Rookie "A" Level Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. The team plays in Fort Myers, Florida, at the Lee County Sports Complex.

Four players from the 2008 GCL Twins & a fan smile for a picture

Gulf Coast League team rosters are thirty players, and cannot have more than twelve players over twenty years old, and no more than four players over 21. No player can have more than two years of prior service, excluding Rookie leagues outside the United States and Canada. The team is comprised mainly of players who are in their first year of professional baseball either as draftees or non-drafted free agents from the United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Venezuela and other countries.^[1]

The GCL Twins compete in the GCL's Southern Division. In 2009, the GCL Twins won the South with a 34-21 record under manager Jake Mauer, Twins catcher Joe Mauer's older brother. They lost 1-0 in twelve innings to the wild card winning GCL Nationals in the one game playoff.^[2] Following the season, Mauer was promoted to manager of the Florida State League Fort Myers Miracle, and Chris Heintz grabbed the reigns for the GCL Twins. Like Mauer, Heintz was also a player in the Twins organization. He coached with the Beloit Snappers the final two months of the 2009 season. In addition to managing the GCL club, Heintz will also run the Twins' extended Spring Training.^[3]

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