American League Central · 2016
Minnesota Twins
- Team WAR
- 26.0 18.9 bat / 7.1 pitch
- Win %
- .364 pyth .406
- Run diff
- -167 4.46 / 5.49 per g
- wRC+
- 97
- ERA
- 4.97 FIP 4.47
- Home runs
- 208
The Minnesota Twins went 59-103 in 2016, a .364 winning percentage — the worst record in baseball. They scored 722 runs and allowed 889, a run differential of -167. The offence ranked 16th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.97 staff ERA was the worst. Their 97 team wRC+ was 3% below league average — 19th of 30 in MLB. Brian Dozier led the position players at 5.8 WAR, and Ervin Santana the rotation at a 3.38 ERA.
Where the offence comes from
Roster contribution by share of the team total.
1,477 team hits
Batting
31 players, ranked by dbWAR.
| Brian Dozier | 2B | 155 | 691 | 165 | 42 | 99 | 18 | .268 | .340 | .546 | .375 | 135 | 5.8 |
| Eduardo Núñez | 3B | 140 | 595 | 159 | 16 | 67 | 40 | .288 | .325 | .432 | .327 | 102 | 2.9 |
| Robbie Grossman | LF | 97 | 389 | 93 | 11 | 37 | 2 | .280 | .386 | .443 | .367 | 129 | 2.0 |
| Miguel Sanó | 3B | 116 | 495 | 103 | 25 | 66 | 1 | .236 | .319 | .462 | .339 | 110 | 1.8 |
| Kurt Suzuki | C | 105 | 373 | 89 | 8 | 49 | 0 | .258 | .301 | .403 | .306 | 88 | 1.5 |
| Jorge Polanco | SS | 69 | 270 | 69 | 4 | 27 | 4 | .282 | .332 | .424 | .329 | 104 | 1.2 |
| Byron Buxton | CF | 89 | 331 | 67 | 10 | 38 | 10 | .225 | .284 | .430 | .308 | 90 | 1.0 |
| Joe Mauer | 1B | 133 | 576 | 129 | 11 | 49 | 2 | .261 | .363 | .389 | .330 | 104 | 1.0 |
| Trevor Plouffe | 3B | 83 | 344 | 83 | 12 | 47 | 1 | .260 | .303 | .420 | .314 | 94 | 0.8 |
| Juan Centeno | C | 55 | 192 | 46 | 3 | 25 | 0 | .261 | .312 | .392 | .309 | 90 | 0.8 |
| Max Kepler | RF | 108 | 447 | 93 | 17 | 63 | 6 | .235 | .309 | .424 | .317 | 96 | 0.8 |
| Kennys Vargas | 1B | 45 | 177 | 35 | 10 | 20 | 0 | .230 | .333 | .500 | .358 | 123 | 0.7 |
| Eddie Rosario | LF | 90 | 354 | 90 | 10 | 32 | 5 | .269 | .295 | .421 | .307 | 89 | 0.5 |
| Tommy Milone | P | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .877 | 470 | 0.1 |
| Logan Schafer | LF | 24 | 74 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .238 | .342 | .317 | .303 | 86 | 0.1 |
| José Berríos | P | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .877 | 470 | 0.0 |
| Ricky Nolasco | P | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .400 | .000 | .279 | 70 | -0.0 |
| Fernando Abad | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -116 | -0.0 |
| Ryan O'Rourke | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -116 | -0.0 |
| Eduardo Escobar | SS | 103 | 377 | 83 | 6 | 37 | 1 | .236 | .280 | .338 | .272 | 65 | -0.0 |
| Tyler Duffey | P | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -116 | -0.0 |
| Michael Tonkin | P | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -116 | -0.0 |
| Phil Hughes | P | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -116 | -0.0 |
| James Beresford | 1B | 7 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .261 | .273 | .238 | 43 | -0.1 |
| Kyle Gibson | P | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .125 | .000 | .087 | -58 | -0.1 |
| Darin Mastroianni | RF | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .182 | .000 | .127 | -31 | -0.1 |
| Ervin Santana | P | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -116 | -0.1 |
| ByungHo Park | DH | 62 | 244 | 41 | 12 | 24 | 1 | .191 | .275 | .409 | .298 | 83 | -0.3 |
| Oswaldo Arcia | RF | 69 | 222 | 41 | 8 | 23 | 1 | .203 | .270 | .366 | .281 | 71 | -0.3 |
| Danny Santana | CF | 68 | 248 | 56 | 2 | 14 | 12 | .240 | .279 | .326 | .267 | 62 | -0.4 |
| John Ryan Murphy | C | 25 | 90 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .146 | .193 | .220 | .186 | 8 | -0.5 |
Pitching
25 pitchers, ranked by dbWAR.
| Ervin Santana | 30 | 30 | 181.1 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 149 | 3.38 | 3.81 | 1.22 | 7.4 | 2.6 |
| Ricky Nolasco | 32 | 32 | 197.2 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 144 | 4.42 | 4.14 | 1.24 | 6.6 | 2.1 |
| Ryan Pressly | 72 | 0 | 75.1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 67 | 3.70 | 3.74 | 1.35 | 8.0 | 0.8 |
| Taylor Rogers | 57 | 0 | 61.1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 64 | 3.96 | 3.57 | 1.29 | 9.4 | 0.7 |
| Buddy Boshers | 37 | 0 | 36.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 4.25 | 2.84 | 1.17 | 9.3 | 0.7 |
| Kyle Gibson | 25 | 25 | 147.1 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 104 | 5.07 | 4.70 | 1.56 | 6.4 | 0.6 |
| Brandon Kintzler | 54 | 0 | 54.1 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 35 | 3.15 | 3.61 | 1.23 | 5.8 | 0.6 |
| Tyler Duffey | 26 | 26 | 133.0 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 114 | 6.43 | 4.73 | 1.50 | 7.7 | 0.5 |
| Trevor May | 44 | 0 | 42.2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 60 | 5.27 | 3.80 | 1.31 | 12.7 | 0.4 |
| Fernando Abad | 57 | 0 | 46.2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 41 | 3.66 | 3.98 | 1.33 | 7.9 | 0.3 |
| JT Chargois | 25 | 0 | 23.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 4.70 | 3.36 | 1.61 | 6.7 | 0.3 |
| Michael Tonkin | 65 | 0 | 71.2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 80 | 5.02 | 4.40 | 1.45 | 10.0 | 0.2 |
| Ryan O'Rourke | 26 | 0 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 3.96 | 4.11 | 1.12 | 8.6 | 0.1 |
| Glen Perkins | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9.00 | 1.65 | 3.00 | 13.5 | 0.1 |
| J.R. Graham | 1 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10.80 | 2.55 | 2.40 | 10.8 | 0.0 |
| Eduardo Escobar | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 3.15 | 1.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Adalberto Mejía | 1 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.71 | 4.43 | 2.57 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Phil Hughes | 12 | 11 | 59.0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 34 | 5.95 | 5.08 | 1.51 | 5.2 | -0.0 |
| Alex Wimmers | 16 | 0 | 17.1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 4.15 | 4.93 | 1.44 | 7.3 | -0.1 |
| Andrew Albers | 6 | 2 | 17.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5.82 | 6.15 | 1.94 | 8.5 | -0.3 |
| Pat Dean | 19 | 9 | 67.1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 50 | 6.28 | 5.20 | 1.65 | 6.7 | -0.3 |
| Tommy Milone | 19 | 12 | 69.1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 49 | 5.71 | 5.54 | 1.53 | 6.4 | -0.5 |
| Pat Light | 17 | 0 | 16.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 11.34 | 7.41 | 2.28 | 8.6 | -0.5 |
| José Berríos | 14 | 14 | 58.1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 49 | 8.02 | 6.20 | 1.87 | 7.6 | -0.7 |
| Kevin Jepsen | 58 | 0 | 49.2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 35 | 5.98 | 6.15 | 1.67 | 6.3 | -0.8 |
Record versus run differential
Minnesota Twins are 59-103, a .364 win rate, while their -167 run differential implies .406. That is about 7 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.