What If Trump Had Bought The Twins Back In 1984? With the Minnesota Twins up for sale by the Pohlad family, people were remembering when the Pohlads purchased the team in 1984 for 38 million dollars. Apparently in 1984, a young US President had been bidding on buying the Minnesota Twins from the Griffith family. A future US President bid how much for the Twins in ’84?