1965 Minnesota Twins Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 102-60
Finished 1st in the AL
Attendance: 1,463,258, Avg. 19,004
Ballpark: Metropolitan Stadium
Won League Championship Series
World Series - Lost to Los Angeles Dodgers 4-3
Manager: Sam Mele (102-60)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota

1965 Minnesota Twins Roster
1965 Minnesota Twins Results

The Minnesota Twins of the American League ended the 1965 season with a record of 102 wins and 60 losses, finishing first in the AL.

The Twins led the league with 774 runs. Minnesota allowed 600 runs. Harmon Killebrew paced the squad with 25 home runs, while Bob Allison, Zoilo Versalles, Jimmie Hall, Don Mincher and Tony Oliva each walloped 20 or more as well. Tony Oliva drove in 98 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .321. Mudcat Grant paced the squad with 21 wins, and Jim Kaat added 15 or more victories as well Jim Perry earned a 2.63 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Sam Mele coached the team. The 1965 Minnesota Twins won the League Championship Series.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Mudcat Grant	21	7	.750	3.30	41	39	0	14	6	0	270.3	252	107	99	34	61	2	142	0	0	8	1095
Jim Kaat	18	11	.621	2.83	45	42	2	7	2	2	264.3	267	121	83	25	63	6	154	5	0	3	1115
Jim Perry	12	7	.632	2.63	36	19	3	4	2	0	167.7	142	57	49	18	47	2	88	3	0	4	679
Al Worthington	10	7	.588	2.13	62	0	38	0	0	21	80.3	57	25	19	4	41	2	59	3	0	1	333
Johnny Klippstein	9	3	.750	2.24	56	0	24	0	0	5	76.3	59	22	19	8	31	4	59	3	0	4	314
Camilo Pascual	9	3	.750	3.35	27	27	0	5	1	0	156.0	126	67	58	12	63	0	96	5	1	7	659
Dave Boswell	6	5	.545	3.40	27	12	1	1	0	0	106.0	77	43	40	20	46	0	85	5	0	1	435
Jim Merritt	5	4	.556	3.17	16	9	5	1	0	2	76.7	68	29	27	11	20	1	61	0	0	0	311
Dick Stigman	4	2	.667	4.37	33	8	12	0	0	4	70.0	59	34	34	14	33	3	70	0	0	5	296
Bill Pleis	4	4	.500	2.98	41	2	16	0	0	4	51.3	49	20	17	3	27	5	33	0	1	2	229
Jerry Fosnow	3	3	.500	4.44	29	0	11	0	0	2	46.7	33	29	23	7	25	2	35	1	0	2	202
Garry Roggenburk	1	0	1.000	3.43	12	0	3	0	0	2	21.0	21	10	8	1	12	2	6	0	0	2	95
Pete Cimino	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Dwight Siebler	0	0		4.20	7	1	1	0	0	0	15.0	11	7	7	2	11	0	15	0	0	1	68
Mel Nelson	0	4	.000	4.12	28	3	13	0	0	3	54.7	57	29	25	7	23	3	31	2	0	4	247
Totals	102	60	.630	3.14	461	162	130	32	11	45	1457.3	1278	600	508	166	503	32	934	27	2	44	6081

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Tony Oliva	149	647	576	107	185	40	5	16	98	19	9	55	64	.321	.378	.491	.870	283	8	4	2	10	12
Zoilo Versalles	160	728	666	126	182	45	12	19	77	27	5	41	122	.273	.319	.462	.781	308	7	7	6	8	3
Jimmie Hall	148	580	522	81	149	25	4	20	86	14	7	51	79	.285	.347	.464	.810	242	6	1	0	6	6
Earl Battey	131	456	394	36	117	22	2	6	60	0	0	50	23	.297	.375	.409	.783	161	7	2	5	5	7
Rich Rollins	140	522	469	59	117	22	1	5	32	4	0	37	54	.249	.309	.333	.641	156	13	4	10	2	7
Harmon Killebrew	113	479	401	78	108	16	1	25	75	0	0	72	69	.269	.384	.501	.885	201	10	4	0	2	12
Bob Allison	135	519	438	71	102	14	5	23	78	10	2	73	114	.233	.342	.445	.787	195	5	2	1	5	4
Don Mincher	128	403	346	43	87	17	3	22	65	1	3	49	73	.251	.344	.509	.853	176	3	2	2	4	15
Jerry Kindall	125	395	342	41	67	12	1	6	36	2	2	36	97	.196	.274	.289	.563	99	6	3	8	6	3
Sandy Valdespino	108	273	245	38	64	8	2	1	22	7	4	20	28	.261	.319	.322	.641	79	5	2	3	3	3
Joe Nossek	87	183	170	19	37	9	0	2	16	2	0	7	22	.218	.250	.306	.556	52	5	1	3	2	1
Jerry Zimmerman	83	175	154	8	33	1	1	1	11	0	0	12	23	.214	.275	.253	.529	39	6	1	8	0	3
Frank Quilici	56	168	149	16	31	5	1	0	7	1	1	15	33	.208	.280	.255	.536	38	4	0	4	0	0
Jim Kaat	56	101	93	6	23	4	0	1	9	2	0	3	29	.247	.265	.323	.588	30	1	0	3	2	0
Mudcat Grant	50	109	97	13	15	3	2	0	8	0	0	7	27	.155	.212	.227	.438	22	1	0	5	0	0
Andy Kosco	23	58	55	3	13	4	0	1	6	0	0	1	15	.236	.241	.364	.605	20	0	0	0	2	0
Dave Boswell	36	39	38	7	12	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	6	.316	.333	.368	.702	14	1	0	0	0	0
Camilo Pascual	27	64	60	7	12	1	0	2	8	0	0	2	8	.200	.226	.317	.542	19	2	0	2	0	0
Bernie Allen	19	46	39	2	9	2	0	0	6	0	0	6	8	.231	.326	.282	.608	11	0	0	0	1	2
Jim Perry	36	59	53	3	9	1	1	0	3	0	0	1	16	.170	.200	.226	.426	12	0	1	4	0	0
Cesar Tovar	18	27	25	3	5	1	0	0	2	2	0	2	3	.200	.259	.240	.499	6	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Kostro	20	36	31	2	5	2	0	0	1	0	0	4	5	.161	.250	.226	.476	7	1	0	0	1	0
Ted Uhlaender	13	22	22	1	4	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	.182	.182	.182	.364	4	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Merritt	16	26	22	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	14	.136	.240	.136	.376	3	0	1	1	0	0
Rich Reese	14	9	7	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.286	.444	.429	.873	3	0	0	0	0	1
Dick Stigman	33	16	15	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.133	.133	.200	.333	3	0	0	1	0	0
Mel Nelson	28	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	1	0	0
Al Worthington	62	14	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.100	.250	.100	.350	1	0	0	2	0	0
John Sevcik	12	18	16	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.063	.118	.125	.243	2	1	0	1	0	0
Jerry Fosnow	29	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Garry Roggenburk	12	6	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	2	0	0
Johnny Klippstein	56	11	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	1	0	2	0	0
Bill Pleis	41	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Dwight Siebler	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Cimino	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2172	6213	5488	774	1396	257	42	150	711	92	33	554	969	.254	.324	.399	.722	2187	93	35	77	59	79

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Don Mincher	1B	99	89	807.3	818	45	7	64	.992	9.621	8.717	0	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	1B	72	70	610.0	636	35	8	64	.988	9.900	9.319	0	0	0	0
Andy Kosco	1B	2	2	15.0	18	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	9.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Allison	1B	3	1	13.0	16	1	0	1	1.000	11.769	5.667	0	0	0	0
Rich Reese	1B	6	0	12.0	14	1	0	0	1.000	11.250	2.500	0	0	0	0
Jerry Kindall	2B	106	101	872.7	242	252	19	62	.963	5.095	4.660	0	0	0	0
Frank Quilici	2B	52	39	365.0	93	112	2	33	.990	5.055	3.942	0	0	0	0
Rich Rollins	2B	16	12	111.0	32	35	5	4	.931	5.432	4.188	0	0	0	0
Bernie Allen	2B	10	8	71.0	18	19	0	6	1.000	4.690	3.700	0	0	0	0
Frank Kostro	2B	7	1	23.0	6	6	1	2	.923	4.696	1.714	0	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	2B	4	1	14.7	2	6	2	2	.800	4.909	2.000	0	0	0	0
Rich Rollins	3B	112	110	952.0	112	229	15	21	.958	3.224	3.045	0	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	3B	44	40	352.0	37	78	4	3	.966	2.940	2.614	0	0	0	0
Joe Nossek	3B	9	8	74.0	8	25	2	0	.943	4.014	3.667	0	0	0	0
Frank Kostro	3B	6	2	36.3	4	12	4	4	.800	3.963	2.667	0	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	3B	2	1	17.0	0	8	1	0	.889	4.235	4.000	0	0	0	0
Jerry Kindall	3B	10	0	17.0	0	4	2	1	.667	2.118	.400	0	0	0	0
Bernie Allen	3B	1	1	9.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	3.000	3.000	0	0	0	0
Earl Battey	C	128	115	952.3	652	56	10	10	.986	6.691	5.531	12	34	28	26	48.1
Jerry Zimmerman	C	82	44	468.3	321	22	1	5	.997	6.591	4.183	4	8	19	8	29.6
John Sevcik	C	11	3	36.7	32	5	0	1	1.000	9.082	3.364	0	2	6	2	25.0
Tony Oliva	OF	147	147	1280.3	284	10	11	3	.964	2.067	2.000	0	0	0	0
Jimmie Hall	OF	141	133	1184.7	282	7	7	2	.976	2.196	2.050	0	0	0	0
Bob Allison	OF	122	117	1048.7	231	11	7	4	.972	2.077	1.984	0	0	0	0
Sandy Valdespino	OF	57	47	445.7	94	4	1	1	.990	1.979	1.719	0	0	0	0
Joe Nossek	OF	48	25	268.7	64	1	2	1	.970	2.177	1.354	0	0	0	0
Andy Kosco	OF	14	11	93.0	17	3	0	1	1.000	1.935	1.429	0	0	0	0
Ted Uhlaender	OF	4	3	28.7	7	1	0	0	1.000	2.512	2.000	0	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	OF	2	2	12.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.500	0	0	0	0
Don Mincher	OF	1	1	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	OF	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Frank Kostro	OF	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Rich Reese	OF	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Mudcat Grant	P	41	39	270.3	16	50	2	6	.971	2.197	1.610	0	0	0	0
Jim Kaat	P	45	42	264.3	15	64	6	3	.929	2.690	1.756	0	0	0	0
Jim Perry	P	36	19	167.7	7	26	1	3	.971	1.771	.917	0	0	0	0
Camilo Pascual	P	27	27	156.0	14	32	1	1	.979	2.654	1.704	0	0	0	0
Dave Boswell	P	27	12	106.0	5	14	1	1	.950	1.613	.704	0	0	0	0
Al Worthington	P	62	0	80.3	3	24	1	0	.964	3.025	.435	0	0	0	0
Jim Merritt	P	16	9	76.7	2	13	1	1	.938	1.761	.938	0	0	0	0
Johnny Klippstein	P	56	0	76.3	0	11	2	0	.846	1.297	.196	0	0	0	0
Dick Stigman	P	33	8	70.0	1	8	1	0	.900	1.157	.273	0	0	0	0
Mel Nelson	P	28	3	54.7	2	8	0	0	1.000	1.646	.357	0	0	0	0
Bill Pleis	P	41	2	51.3	1	7	0	1	1.000	1.403	.195	0	0	0	0
Jerry Fosnow	P	29	0	46.7	1	12	3	0	.813	2.507	.448	0	0	0	0
Garry Roggenburk	P	12	0	21.0	0	3	1	0	.750	1.286	.250	0	0	0	0
Dwight Siebler	P	7	1	15.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.800	.429	0	0	0	0
Pete Cimino	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Zoilo Versalles	SS	160	158	1406.3	248	487	39	105	.950	4.704	4.594	0	0	0	0
Frank Quilici	SS	4	3	25.0	3	8	0	1	1.000	3.960	2.750	0	0	0	0
Jerry Kindall	SS	7	1	24.0	4	10	2	0	.875	5.250	2.000	0	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	SS	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1955	1458	13116.0	4366	1770	172	417	.973	4.210	3.139	16	44	53	36	40.4

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
Mudcat Grant	WS	2	1	.667	2.74	3	3	0	2	23.0	22	8	7	3	2	0	12	0	1	92
Jim Kaat	WS	1	2	.333	3.77	3	3	0	1	14.3	18	7	6	1	2	0	6	1	0	65
Al Worthington	WS	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	4.0	2	1	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	16
Johnny Klippstein	WS	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	2.7	2	0	0	0	2	1	3	1	0	12
Jim Merritt	WS	0	0		2.70	2	0	0	0	3.3	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	11
Dave Boswell	WS	0	0		3.38	1	0	0	0	2.7	3	1	1	0	2	0	3	0	0	13
Jim Perry	WS	0	0		4.50	2	0	2	0	4.0	5	2	2	0	2	1	4	0	0	18
Bill Pleis	WS	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	1.0	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
Camilo Pascual	WS	0	1	.000	5.40	1	1	0	0	5.0	8	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	24
Totals		3	4	.429	3.15	17	7	4	3	60.0	64	24	21	5	13	2	31	3	1	256

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SH	IBB
Zoilo Versalles	WS	7	30	28	3	8	1	1	1	4	1	1	2	7	.286	.333	.500	.833	14	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	WS	7	27	21	2	6	0	0	1	2	0	0	6	4	.286	.444	.429	.873	9	0	0	0
Tony Oliva	WS	7	27	26	2	5	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	6	.192	.222	.346	.568	9	1	0	0
Joe Nossek	WS	6	21	20	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	4	1	1	0
Frank Quilici	WS	7	24	20	2	4	2	0	0	1	0	1	4	3	.200	.333	.300	.633	6	0	0	2
Sandy Valdespino	WS	5	11	11	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.273	.273	.364	.636	4	0	0	0
Don Mincher	WS	7	25	23	3	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	7	.130	.200	.261	.461	6	1	0	0
Earl Battey	WS	7	25	25	1	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	5	.120	.120	.200	.320	5	2	0	0
Mudcat Grant	WS	3	9	8	3	2	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.750	1.000	6	0	1	0
Bob Allison	WS	5	18	16	3	2	1	0	1	2	1	0	2	9	.125	.222	.375	.597	6	0	0	0
Jim Kaat	WS	3	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0
Jimmie Hall	WS	2	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.143	.250	.143	.393	1	0	0	0
Camilo Pascual	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Rich Rollins	WS	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0
Jerry Zimmerman	WS	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0
Dave Boswell	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Johnny Klippstein	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Jim Merritt	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Jim Perry	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Bill Pleis	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Al Worthington	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals		82	236	215	20	42	7	2	6	19	2	2	19	54	.195	.261	.330	.591	71	6	2	2

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Don Mincher	WS	1B	7	7	60.0	51	4	0	0	1.000	8.250	7.857
Frank Quilici	WS	2B	7	7	60.0	15	19	2	0	.944	5.100	4.857
Harmon Killebrew	WS	3B	7	7	60.0	11	7	1	0	.947	2.700	2.571
Earl Battey	WS	C	7	7	56.3	31	6	0	2	1.000	5.911	5.286
Jerry Zimmerman	WS	C	2	0	3.7	2	1	0	1	1.000	7.364	1.500
Joe Nossek	WS	CF	5	5	43.0	13	0	0	0	1.000	2.721	2.600
Jimmie Hall	WS	CF	2	2	17.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.059	1.000
Bob Allison	WS	LF	5	5	43.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	2.302	2.200
Sandy Valdespino	WS	LF	2	2	17.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	3.176	3.000
Mudcat Grant	WS	P	3	3	23.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.391	.333
Jim Kaat	WS	P	3	3	14.3	5	2	0	0	1.000	4.395	2.333
Camilo Pascual	WS	P	1	1	5.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.000
Al Worthington	WS	P	2	0	4.0	1	1	1	0	.667	4.500	1.000
Jim Perry	WS	P	2	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.500
Jim Merritt	WS	P	2	0	3.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.000
Johnny Klippstein	WS	P	2	0	2.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Dave Boswell	WS	P	1	0	2.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Bill Pleis	WS	P	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000
Tony Oliva	WS	RF	7	7	60.0	20	0	1	0	.952	3.000	2.857
Zoilo Versalles	WS	SS	7	7	60.0	12	12	0	3	1.000	3.600	3.429
Totals			75	63	540.0	180	58	5	6	.979	3.967	3.173

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