American League Central · 2017

Minnesota Twins 2017

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Team WAR: 31.1
Win %: .525
Run diff: +27
wRC+: 103
ERA: 4.73
Home runs: 205

The Minnesota Twins went 85-77 in 2017, a .525 winning percentage — 11th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 815 runs and allowed 788, a run differential of +27. The offence ranked 7th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.73 staff ERA was 26th of 30. Their 103 team wRC+ was 3% above league average — 9th of 30 in MLB. Brian Dozier led the position players at 4.7 WAR, and José Berríos the rotation at a 3.89 ERA.

The 2017 season

Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.

They finished 2nd in the AL Central, 17 games back. They spent 51 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 3 games on May 27 and were as far as 17 games back on September 20. Their best month was August at 20-10, their worst July at 10-15. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from August 6 to August 11 and a 4-game losing streak from April 16 to April 20. They were 41-40 at home and 44-37 on the road, 15-18 in one-run games and 20-31 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 17-0 against the Royals on September 2; the heaviest defeat, 14-3 at the Rangers on April 26.

Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month	W	L	Pct	RS	RA	Diff
March/April	12	11	.522	101	97	+4
May	14	12	.538	125	152	-27
June	14	15	.483	123	155	-32
July	10	15	.400	120	137	-17
August	20	10	.667	177	120	+57
Sept/Oct	15	14	.517	169	127	+42

Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games	W-L	Pct
Home	41-40	.506
Road	44-37	.543
One-run games	15-18	.455
Extra innings	3-3	.500
Within the division	41-35	.539
Against .500+ clubs	20-31	.392
Decided by 5+ runs	29-27	.518
Last 10	7-3	.700

American League Central standings, 2017

Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.

American League Central, 2017. Games back of the best record in the division.
Team	W	L	Pct	GB	RS	RA	Diff	WAR
Cleveland Indians	102	60	.630	—	818	564	+254	55.9
Minnesota Twins	85	77	.525	17	815	788	+27	31.1
Kansas City Royals	80	82	.494	22	702	791	-89	25.0
Chicago White Sox	67	95	.414	35	706	820	-114	17.2
Detroit Tigers	64	98	.395	38	735	894	-159	24.6

2017 Minnesota Twins roster

The players whose season belongs to this club, by position and then by dbWAR. A player traded mid-season is listed with the club he played most of his games for, so a deadline arrival may appear on his other club’s page instead.

Catchers 3

Jason CastroC · 107 G · 1.6 WAR
Chris GimenezC · 69 G · 1.1 WAR
Mitch GarverC · 20 G · -0.1 WAR

Infielders 7

Brian Dozier2B · 152 G · 4.7 WAR
Miguel Sanó3B · 114 G · 2.8 WAR
Joe Mauer1B · 140 G · 2.0 WAR
Jorge PolancoSS · 132 G · 1.9 WAR
Eduardo Escobar3B · 128 G · 1.5 WAR
Ehire AdrianzaSS · 65 G · 0.5 WAR
Niko Goodrum2B · 10 G · -0.3 WAR

Outfielders 4

Eddie RosarioLF · 145 G · 2.3 WAR
Byron BuxtonCF · 135 G · 2.1 WAR
Max KeplerRF · 144 G · 1.1 WAR
Zack GraniteCF · 38 G · -0.2 WAR

Designated hitters 2

Robbie GrossmanDH · 119 G · 1.0 WAR
Kennys VargasDH · 76 G · 0.1 WAR

Starting pitchers 11

José Berríos25 GS · 2.6 WAR
Ervin Santana33 GS · 2.4 WAR
Kyle Gibson29 GS · 1.1 WAR
Adalberto Mejía21 GS · 0.9 WAR
Bartolo Colon28 GS · 0.4 WAR
Aaron Slegers3 GS · -0.1 WAR
Phil Hughes9 GS · -0.1 WAR
Dietrich Enns1 GS · -0.2 WAR
Felix Jorge2 GS · -0.4 WAR
Héctor Santiago14 GS · -0.5 WAR
Adam Wilk2 GS · -0.7 WAR

Relief pitchers 21

Tyler Duffey56 G · 1.0 WAR
Brandon Kintzler72 G · 0.9 WAR
Trevor Hildenberger37 G · 0.9 WAR
Matt Belisle62 G · 0.6 WAR
Taylor Rogers69 G · 0.5 WAR
Ryan Pressly57 G · 0.4 WAR
Alan Busenitz28 G · 0.3 WAR
Dillon Gee18 G · 0.2 WAR
Craig Breslow37 G · 0.1 WAR
John Curtiss9 G · 0.0 WAR
Justin Haley10 G · 0.0 WAR
Chris Gimenez6 G · -0.0 WAR
Randy Rosario2 G · -0.1 WAR
Buddy Boshers38 G · -0.1 WAR
Glen Perkins8 G · -0.1 WAR
Gabriel Moya7 G · -0.1 WAR
Drew Rucinski2 G · -0.2 WAR
Jason Wheeler2 G · -0.2 WAR
Alex Wimmers6 G · -0.3 WAR
Michael Tonkin16 G · -0.4 WAR
Nik Turley10 G · -0.4 WAR

Where the offence comes from

Roster contribution by share of the team total.

1,439 team hits

Each rectangle is a player, sized by his share of the team's hits; darker means a larger share. Top 30 contributors. Select a different statistic above, or click a player for his page.

Batting

20 players, ranked by dbWAR.


Brian Dozier	2B	152	705	167	34	93	15	.271	.359	.498	.366	125	4.7
Miguel Sanó	3B	114	483	112	28	77	0	.264	.352	.507	.365	124	2.8
Eddie Rosario	LF	145	589	157	27	78	9	.290	.328	.507	.353	116	2.3
Byron Buxton	CF	135	511	117	16	51	29	.253	.314	.413	.315	91	2.1
Joe Mauer	1B	140	597	160	7	71	2	.305	.384	.417	.353	116	2.0
Jorge Polanco	SS	132	544	125	13	74	13	.256	.313	.410	.313	90	1.9
Jason Castro	C	107	407	86	10	47	0	.242	.333	.388	.319	94	1.6
Eduardo Escobar	3B	128	499	116	21	73	5	.254	.309	.449	.323	96	1.5
Chris Gimenez	C	69	225	41	7	16	1	.220	.350	.382	.330	101	1.1
Max Kepler	RF	144	568	124	19	69	6	.243	.312	.425	.319	94	1.1
Robbie Grossman	DH	119	456	94	9	45	3	.246	.361	.380	.334	103	1.0
Ehire Adrianza	SS	65	186	43	2	24	8	.265	.324	.383	.306	85	0.5
Kennys Vargas	DH	76	264	61	11	41	0	.253	.314	.444	.326	98	0.1
Ervin Santana	P	3	10	2	0	5	0	.200	.200	.300	.214	24	0.1
Dietrich Enns	P	1	2	1	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.437	172	0.0
José Berríos	P	3	5	1	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.175	-2	0.0
Nik Turley	P	1	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119	-0.0
Mitch Garver	C	20	52	9	0	3	0	.196	.288	.348	.284	70	-0.1
Zack Granite	CF	38	107	22	1	13	2	.237	.321	.290	.280	68	-0.2
Niko Goodrum	2B	10	18	1	0	0	0	.059	.111	.059	.088	-60	-0.3

Pitching

32 pitchers, ranked by dbWAR.


José Berríos	26	25	145.2	14	8	0	139	3.89	3.84	1.23	8.6	2.6
Ervin Santana	33	33	211.1	16	8	0	167	3.28	4.46	1.13	7.1	2.4
Kyle Gibson	29	29	158.0	12	10	0	121	5.07	4.85	1.53	6.9	1.1
Tyler Duffey	56	0	71.0	2	3	1	67	4.94	3.72	1.37	8.5	1.0
Brandon Kintzler	72	0	71.1	4	3	29	39	3.03	3.77	1.15	4.9	0.9
Adalberto Mejía	21	21	98.0	4	7	0	85	4.50	4.65	1.57	7.8	0.9
Trevor Hildenberger	37	0	42.0	3	3	1	44	3.21	3.01	1.05	9.4	0.9
Matt Belisle	62	0	60.1	2	2	9	54	4.03	4.07	1.16	8.1	0.6
Taylor Rogers	69	0	55.2	7	3	0	49	3.07	4.09	1.31	7.9	0.5
Bartolo Colon	28	28	143.0	7	14	0	89	6.48	5.21	1.59	5.6	0.4
Ryan Pressly	57	0	61.1	2	3	0	61	4.70	4.36	1.16	9.0	0.4
Alan Busenitz	28	0	31.2	1	1	0	23	1.99	4.20	0.98	6.5	0.3
Dillon Gee	18	4	49.1	3	2	1	41	3.47	4.76	1.40	7.5	0.2
Craig Breslow	37	0	35.1	1	1	0	23	5.09	4.69	1.56	5.9	0.1
John Curtiss	9	0	8.2	0	0	0	10	8.31	4.89	1.27	10.4	0.0
Justin Haley	10	0	18.0	0	0	1	14	6.00	4.94	1.56	7.0	0.0
Chris Gimenez	6	0	5.0	0	0	0	0	7.20	5.76	1.40	0.0	-0.0
Aaron Slegers	4	3	15.1	0	1	0	9	6.46	5.70	1.17	5.3	-0.1
Phil Hughes	14	9	53.2	4	3	0	38	5.87	5.43	1.58	6.4	-0.1
Randy Rosario	2	0	2.1	0	0	0	2	30.86	8.30	3.00	7.7	-0.1
Buddy Boshers	38	0	35.0	1	0	0	28	4.89	5.19	1.34	7.2	-0.1
Glen Perkins	8	0	5.2	0	0	0	2	9.53	6.69	2.29	3.2	-0.1
Gabriel Moya	7	0	6.1	0	0	1	5	4.26	6.63	1.11	7.1	-0.1
Drew Rucinski	2	0	4.1	0	0	0	5	10.38	8.23	2.77	10.4	-0.2
Dietrich Enns	2	1	4.0	0	0	0	2	6.75	9.41	2.00	4.5	-0.2
Jason Wheeler	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0	9.00	11.49	3.33	0.0	-0.2
Alex Wimmers	6	0	7.1	0	0	0	7	4.91	8.07	2.18	8.6	-0.3
Michael Tonkin	16	0	21.0	0	1	0	24	5.14	6.44	1.62	10.3	-0.4
Felix Jorge	2	2	7.2	1	0	0	4	10.57	9.68	2.09	4.7	-0.4
Nik Turley	10	3	17.2	0	2	0	13	11.21	7.06	2.15	6.6	-0.4
Héctor Santiago	15	14	70.1	4	8	0	51	5.63	6.02	1.44	6.5	-0.5
Adam Wilk	4	2	14.0	0	2	0	8	9.00	9.51	2.36	5.1	-0.7

Attendance

Announced gate at 80 home dates, 2017.

Average: 25,641
Median: 25,839
Total: 2,051,279
Best: 39,615
Quietest: 15,171
On the road: 27,798

By situation

Day and night divide the home schedule, and so do weekend and weekday. The road line is a different question.
Split	Games	Avg	Med	Low	High
All home	80	25,641	25,839	15,171	39,615
Night	47	25,169	23,553	16,553	36,182
Day	33	26,313	26,713	15,171	39,615
Weekend	39	27,440	27,572	18,466	35,515
Weekday	41	23,930	22,664	15,171	39,615
On the road	80	27,798	28,145	6,509	50,941

Through the season

Average home crowd by month.
Month	Games	Average
Apr	12	21,726
May	18	22,873
Jun	11	25,431
Jul	13	27,642
Aug	15	26,325
Sep	11	28,794
Oct	1	28,148

By season

Announced gate — tickets distributed, which is the figure every reference publishes and is not the same as people through the turnstile. A game the feed reports no gate for is left out rather than counted as empty. Seasons before attendance was carried into the lake are absent from the trend rather than shown as zero.

Game time

First pitch to final out across 162 completed games, 2017.

Regulation: 3:09
All games: 3:11
Extra innings: 4:03
Longest: 6:26
Shortest: 2:26

By situation

Regulation and extra innings divide the season, and so do home and road. Day and night overlap both.
Split	Games	Avg	Med	Fastest	Longest
All	162	3:11	3:10	2:23	6:26
Regulation	156	3:09	3:08	2:23	4:19
Extra innings	6	4:03	3:34	3:15	6:26
Home	81	3:14	3:08	2:26	6:26
Road	81	3:08	3:11	2:23	4:06
Day	61	3:15	3:13	2:24	6:26
Night	101	3:08	3:08	2:23	3:42

Through the season

Average completed game by month.
Month	Games	Average
Apr	12	3:10
May	18	3:26
Jun	11	3:07
Jul	13	3:16
Aug	15	3:09
Sep	11	3:13
Oct	1	2:36

By season

Regulation games only, in minutes. 189 minutes this season.

Elapsed time from first pitch to final out. The feed does not itemise delays, so a rain delay is inside these numbers with no way to subtract it. Games called early are excluded — five innings in ninety-three minutes is not a short game — but they still count in attendance, because the crowd turned up.

Record versus run differential

Minnesota Twins are 85-77, a .525 win rate, while their +27 run differential implies .515. That is essentially in line — the record reflects the run scoring.