The Minnesota Twins went 78-84 in 2022, a .481 winning percentage — 18th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 696 runs and allowed 684, a run differential of +12. The offence ranked 17th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.11 staff ERA was 21st of 30. Their 106 team wRC+ was 6% above league average — 10th of 30 in MLB. Carlos Correa led the position players at 5.2 WAR, and Sonny Gray the rotation at a 3.08 ERA.
The 2022 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the AL Central, 14 games back. They spent 105 of 181 days in first place, led by as many as 5.5 games on May 24 and were as far as 14 games back on October 4. Their best month was May at 18-12, their worst Sept/Oct at 11-22. The longest runs were a 7-game winning streak from April 21 to April 28 and a 6-game losing streak from August 20 to August 25. They were 46-35 at home and 32-49 on the road, 20-28 in one-run games and 39-53 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 14-4 at the Athletics on May 18; the heaviest defeat, 13-0 at the White Sox on September 3.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
12
9
.571
85
68
+17
May
18
12
.600
137
120
+17
June
13
15
.464
134
124
+10
July
10
12
.455
102
120
-18
August
14
14
.500
117
105
+12
Sept/Oct
11
22
.333
121
147
-26
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
46-35
.568
Road
32-49
.395
One-run games
20-28
.417
Extra innings
5-10
.333
Within the division
39-37
.513
Against .500+ clubs
39-53
.424
Decided by 5+ runs
27-27
.500
Last 10
4-6
.400
American League Central standings, 2022
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League Central, 2022. Games back of the best record in the division.
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.
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.
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
22,514
22,484
11,803
39,030
Night
49
22,189
22,332
11,803
39,030
Day
31
23,028
23,225
14,295
38,802
Weekend
42
23,334
23,947
14,257
35,462
Weekday
38
21,608
20,303
11,803
39,030
On the road
80
22,824
20,387
3,138
53,432
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
17,521
May
16
18,263
Jun
12
24,881
Jul
9
28,026
Aug
20
24,215
Sep
12
21,965
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, 2022.
Regulation
3:04
147 games
All games
3:07
Extra innings
3:45
15 of them
Longest
4:00
2022-04-12, 9 inn
Shortest
2:17
2022-06-24
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
3:07
3:06
2:13
5:24
Regulation
147
3:04
3:03
2:13
4:00
Extra innings
15
3:45
3:45
3:13
5:24
Home
81
3:11
3:09
2:17
4:00
Road
81
3:04
3:01
2:13
5:24
Day
68
3:09
3:09
2:32
4:03
Night
94
3:06
3:04
2:13
5:24
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
3:09
May
16
3:12
Jun
12
3:13
Jul
9
3:05
Aug
20
3:15
Sep
12
3:07
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.
Record versus run differential
Minnesota Twins are 78-84, a .481 win rate, while their +12 run differential implies .508. That is about 4 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
