Article: XL Twins; Top prospects Michael Cuddyer, Matt LeCroy, Michael Restovich and Bobby Kielty have the size and swings to swat homers. Club officials hope their muscle will enable the Twins to join baseball's home run derby in the next couple of years.(SPORTS)

There was a time when nearly every Twins batter or prospect who approached the plate looked as if he might need a stepladder to hit a high fastball.

Kirby Puckett, Chuck Knoblauch, Matt Lawton and Jacque Jones - some of the Twins' best or most promising hitters in the mid-to-late '90s - are under 6 feet tall.

That hardly dampened Puckett's career, but one of the reasons for the Twins' powerless lineups in recent years has been their lack of prototypical, powerfully built power hitters.

So before the 1997 amateur draft, Twins scouts adopted an unofficial slogan: "Go big or go home." Their first three picks - Michael Cuddyer, Matt LeCroy and ...

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