American League Central · 2021
Minnesota Twins 2021
- Team WAR
- 28.4 19.1 bat / 9.2 pitch
- Win %
- .451 pyth .439
- Run diff
- -105 4.50 / 5.15 per g
- wRC+
- 102
- ERA
- 4.71 FIP 4.58
- Home runs
- 241
The Minnesota Twins went 73-89 in 2021, a .451 winning percentage — 23rd of 30 record in baseball. They scored 729 runs and allowed 834, a run differential of -105. The offence ranked 15th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.71 staff ERA was 25th of 30. Their 102 team wRC+ was 2% above league average — 12th of 30 in MLB. Jorge Polanco led the position players at 4.6 WAR, and José Berríos the rotation at a 3.52 ERA.
Where the offence comes from
Roster contribution by share of the team total.
Batting
28 players, ranked by dbWAR.
| Jorge Polanco | 2B | 151 | 644 | 158 | 33 | 98 | 11 | .269 | .323 | .503 | .351 | 124 | 4.6 |
| Byron Buxton | CF | 61 | 254 | 72 | 19 | 32 | 9 | .306 | .358 | .647 | .420 | 173 | 3.5 |
| Josh Donaldson | 3B | 135 | 543 | 113 | 26 | 72 | 0 | .247 | .352 | .475 | .356 | 128 | 2.7 |
| Mitch Garver | C | 68 | 243 | 53 | 13 | 34 | 1 | .256 | .358 | .517 | .375 | 141 | 2.3 |
| Nelson Cruz | DH | 140 | 584 | 136 | 32 | 86 | 3 | .265 | .334 | .497 | .348 | 122 | 1.8 |
| Luis Arraez | 3B | 121 | 479 | 126 | 2 | 42 | 2 | .294 | .357 | .376 | .324 | 105 | 1.7 |
| Miguel Sanó | 1B | 135 | 532 | 105 | 30 | 75 | 2 | .223 | .312 | .466 | .334 | 113 | 1.4 |
| Max Kepler | RF | 121 | 490 | 90 | 19 | 54 | 10 | .211 | .306 | .413 | .313 | 97 | 1.3 |
| Ryan Jeffers | C | 83 | 293 | 53 | 14 | 35 | 0 | .199 | .270 | .401 | .292 | 83 | 0.6 |
| Alex Kirilloff | 1B | 59 | 231 | 54 | 8 | 34 | 1 | .251 | .299 | .423 | .308 | 94 | 0.4 |
| Trevor Larnach | LF | 79 | 301 | 58 | 7 | 28 | 1 | .223 | .322 | .350 | .304 | 92 | 0.4 |
| Nick Gordon | CF | 67 | 216 | 48 | 4 | 23 | 10 | .240 | .292 | .355 | .285 | 78 | 0.2 |
| Brent Rooker | LF | 58 | 213 | 38 | 9 | 16 | 0 | .201 | .291 | .397 | .304 | 91 | 0.2 |
| Rob Refsnyder | CF | 46 | 157 | 34 | 2 | 12 | 1 | .245 | .325 | .338 | .299 | 88 | 0.2 |
| Kyle Garlick | RF | 33 | 107 | 23 | 5 | 10 | 1 | .232 | .280 | .465 | .316 | 100 | 0.2 |
| Kenta Maeda | P | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .292 | 83 | 0.1 |
| Bailey Ober | P | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .438 | 185 | 0.1 |
| JT Riddle | SS | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .292 | 83 | 0.0 |
| Danny Coulombe | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121 | -0.0 |
| Charlie Barnes | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121 | -0.0 |
| Joe Ryan | P | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121 | -0.0 |
| Griffin Jax | P | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121 | -0.0 |
| Michael Pineda | P | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121 | -0.1 |
| Willians Astudillo | 1B | 70 | 216 | 49 | 7 | 21 | 0 | .236 | .259 | .375 | .273 | 70 | -0.3 |
| Ben Rortvedt | C | 36 | 98 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 0 | .169 | .229 | .281 | .229 | 39 | -0.4 |
| Gilberto Celestino | CF | 22 | 62 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .136 | .177 | .288 | .202 | 20 | -0.4 |
| Andrelton Simmons | SS | 130 | 451 | 92 | 3 | 31 | 1 | .223 | .283 | .274 | .254 | 57 | -0.5 |
| Jake Cave | LF | 63 | 178 | 31 | 3 | 13 | 1 | .189 | .249 | .293 | .243 | 49 | -0.6 |
Pitching
32 pitchers, ranked by dbWAR.
| José Berríos | 32 | 32 | 192.0 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 204 | 3.52 | 3.47 | 1.06 | 9.6 | 4.1 |
| Kenta Maeda | 21 | 21 | 106.1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 113 | 4.66 | 4.10 | 1.30 | 9.6 | 1.5 |
| Michael Pineda | 22 | 21 | 109.1 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 88 | 3.62 | 4.21 | 1.23 | 7.2 | 1.4 |
| Taylor Rogers | 40 | 0 | 40.1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 59 | 3.35 | 2.13 | 1.14 | 13.2 | 1.2 |
| Caleb Thielbar | 59 | 0 | 64.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 3.23 | 3.47 | 1.17 | 10.8 | 1.0 |
| Tyler Duffey | 64 | 0 | 62.1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 61 | 3.18 | 3.49 | 1.22 | 8.8 | 0.9 |
| Bailey Ober | 20 | 20 | 92.1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 96 | 4.19 | 4.56 | 1.20 | 9.4 | 0.8 |
| Joe Ryan | 5 | 5 | 26.2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 4.05 | 3.43 | 0.79 | 10.1 | 0.6 |
| Jorge Alcala | 59 | 0 | 59.2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 61 | 3.92 | 4.06 | 0.97 | 9.2 | 0.5 |
| Alex Colomé | 67 | 0 | 65.0 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 58 | 4.15 | 4.23 | 1.40 | 8.0 | 0.4 |
| Danny Coulombe | 29 | 1 | 34.1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 3.67 | 3.75 | 1.22 | 8.7 | 0.4 |
| Hansel Robles | 72 | 0 | 69.0 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 76 | 4.43 | 4.30 | 1.38 | 9.9 | 0.4 |
| Juan Minaya | 29 | 0 | 40.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 2.48 | 3.97 | 1.18 | 9.7 | 0.4 |
| J.A. Happ | 30 | 30 | 152.1 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 122 | 5.79 | 5.13 | 1.48 | 7.2 | 0.4 |
| Cody Stashak | 15 | 0 | 15.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 6.89 | 3.62 | 1.66 | 14.9 | 0.2 |
| Jovani Morán | 5 | 0 | 8.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7.88 | 3.30 | 2.00 | 11.3 | 0.1 |
| Charlie Barnes | 9 | 8 | 38.0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 5.92 | 5.06 | 1.63 | 4.7 | 0.1 |
| Nick Vincent | 7 | 0 | 12.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.71 | 4.20 | 0.87 | 6.4 | 0.1 |
| Devin Smeltzer | 1 | 0 | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 3.81 | 0.43 | 5.8 | 0.1 |
| Derek Law | 9 | 0 | 15.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4.20 | 4.64 | 1.60 | 8.4 | 0.0 |
| Luke Farrell | 20 | 1 | 24.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 4.74 | 4.83 | 1.66 | 9.1 | -0.0 |
| Ralph Garza Jr. | 27 | 0 | 30.1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 3.56 | 4.88 | 1.25 | 8.6 | -0.0 |
| Lewis Thorpe | 5 | 4 | 15.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4.70 | 5.45 | 1.37 | 3.5 | -0.0 |
| Willians Astudillo | 4 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.25 | 7.92 | 0.75 | 0.0 | -0.1 |
| Ian Gibaut | 3 | 0 | 6.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2.70 | 7.22 | 1.35 | 5.4 | -0.2 |
| Kyle Barraclough | 10 | 0 | 13.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5.54 | 6.71 | 1.54 | 12.5 | -0.3 |
| Randy Dobnak | 14 | 6 | 50.2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 27 | 7.64 | 5.70 | 1.54 | 4.8 | -0.4 |
| Edgar García | 11 | 0 | 14.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 12.27 | 7.81 | 1.84 | 7.4 | -0.5 |
| Beau Burrows | 6 | 1 | 11.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 13.91 | 10.35 | 2.36 | 6.5 | -0.7 |
| Matt Shoemaker | 16 | 11 | 60.1 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 40 | 8.06 | 6.57 | 1.66 | 6.0 | -1.0 |
| Andrew Albers | 5 | 3 | 19.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 7.58 | 9.64 | 1.74 | 5.7 | -1.0 |
| Griffin Jax | 18 | 14 | 82.0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 65 | 6.37 | 6.47 | 1.35 | 7.1 | -1.2 |
Attendance
Announced gate at 80 home dates, 2021.
- Average
- 16,377 80 home dates
- Median
- 17,838
- Total
- 1,310,199
- Best
- 29,342 2021-08-28
- Quietest
- 6,724 2021-04-13
- On the road
- 17,220 what they drew away
By situation
| Split | Games | Avg | Med | Low | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All home | 80 | 16,377 | 17,838 | 6,724 | 29,342 |
| Night | 48 | 17,206 | 17,904 | 7,853 | 29,342 |
| Day | 32 | 15,135 | 16,568 | 6,724 | 26,186 |
| Weekend | 37 | 17,639 | 19,147 | 9,396 | 29,342 |
| Weekday | 43 | 15,292 | 17,530 | 6,724 | 23,337 |
| On the road | 79 | 17,220 | 14,293 | 3,322 | 39,124 |
Through the season
| Month | Games | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Apr | 11 | 8,149 |
| May | 18 | 10,622 |
| Jun | 11 | 18,230 |
| Jul | 14 | 20,243 |
| Aug | 13 | 21,413 |
| Sep | 14 | 19,076 |
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, 2021.
- Regulation
- 3:04 139 games
- All games
- 3:10
- Extra innings
- 3:43 23 of them
- Longest
- 5:14 2021-06-21, 12 inn
- Shortest
- 2:06 2021-09-14
By situation
| Split | Games | Avg | Med | Fastest | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 162 | 3:10 | 3:09 | 1:54 | 5:14 |
| Regulation | 139 | 3:04 | 3:04 | 1:54 | 4:09 |
| Extra innings | 23 | 3:43 | 3:44 | 2:45 | 5:14 |
| Home | 81 | 3:10 | 3:09 | 2:06 | 5:14 |
| Road | 81 | 3:10 | 3:07 | 1:54 | 4:16 |
| Day | 69 | 3:10 | 3:09 | 1:55 | 4:16 |
| Night | 93 | 3:10 | 3:08 | 1:54 | 5:14 |
Through the season
| Month | Games | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Apr | 11 | 3:04 |
| May | 18 | 3:09 |
| Jun | 11 | 3:22 |
| Jul | 14 | 3:14 |
| Aug | 13 | 3:11 |
| Sep | 14 | 3:03 |
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 184 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.
Minnesota Twins are 73-89, a .451 win rate, while their -105 run differential implies .439. That is essentially in line — the record reflects the run scoring.