1970 Minnesota Twins Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 98-64
Finished 1st in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 1,261,887, Avg. 16,258
Ballpark: Metropolitan Stadium
Won Division
American League Championship Series - Lost to Baltimore Orioles 3-0
Manager: Bill Rigney (98-64)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota

1970 Minnesota Twins Roster
1970 Minnesota Twins Results

The Minnesota Twins of the American League ended the 1970 season with a record of 98 wins and 64 losses, finishing first in the AL's West Division.

The Twins scored 744 runs and yielded 605 runs. Harmon Killebrew walloped 41 home runs for Minnesota, while Brant Alyea, George Mitterwald and Tony Oliva each swatted 20 or more also. Harmon Killebrew accounted for 113 RBI. Tony Oliva led batters with significant playing time by hitting .325. Jim Perry earned 24 wins on the mound for the team, and Tom Hall earned a 2.55 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Rigney coached the team. The 1970 Minnesota Twins qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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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
Jim Perry	24	12	.667	3.04	40	40	0	13	4	0	278.7	258	112	94	20	57	10	168	9	0	3	1141
Jim Kaat	14	10	.583	3.56	45	34	3	4	1	0	230.3	244	110	91	26	58	8	120	3	0	11	972
Tom Hall	11	6	.647	2.55	52	11	13	1	0	4	155.3	94	46	44	11	66	4	184	2	0	3	619
Stan Williams	10	1	.909	1.99	68	0	36	0	0	15	113.3	85	34	25	8	32	6	76	5	1	2	455
Bert Blyleven	10	9	.526	3.18	27	25	1	5	1	0	164.0	143	66	58	17	47	6	135	2	3	2	675
Bill Zepp	9	4	.692	3.22	43	20	6	1	1	2	151.0	154	63	54	9	51	4	64	9	0	4	648
Luis Tiant	7	3	.700	3.40	18	17	1	2	1	0	92.7	84	36	35	12	41	0	50	2	0	2	390
Ron Perranoski	7	8	.467	2.43	67	0	52	0	0	34	111.0	108	38	30	7	42	7	55	1	0	1	471
Dave Boswell	3	7	.300	6.42	18	15	1	0	0	0	68.7	80	55	49	12	44	3	45	2	0	3	325
Hal Haydel	2	0	1.000	3.00	4	0	2	0	0	0	9.0	7	3	3	2	4	0	4	0	0	1	37
Dick Woodson	1	2	.333	3.82	21	0	8	0	0	1	30.7	29	18	13	2	19	0	22	0	0	1	141
Steve Barber	0	0		4.61	18	0	10	0	0	2	27.3	26	14	14	1	18	2	14	2	0	4	125
Pete Hamm	0	2	.000	5.51	10	0	3	0	0	0	16.3	17	10	10	3	7	1	3	0	0	1	72
Totals	98	64	.605	3.23	431	162	136	26	8	58	1448.3	1329	605	520	130	486	51	940	37	4	38	6071

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	157	674	628	96	204	36	7	23	107	5	4	38	67	.325	.364	.514	.878	323	16	3	1	4	12
Cesar Tovar	161	726	650	120	195	36	13	10	54	30	15	52	47	.300	.356	.442	.798	287	9	8	10	6	5
Leo Cardenas	160	649	588	67	145	34	4	11	65	2	5	42	101	.247	.300	.374	.674	220	11	4	13	2	2
Harmon Killebrew	157	665	527	96	143	20	1	41	113	0	3	128	84	.271	.411	.546	.957	288	28	2	0	8	23
Rich Reese	153	564	501	63	131	15	5	10	56	5	4	48	70	.261	.332	.371	.703	186	7	7	4	4	5
Jim Holt	142	341	319	37	85	9	3	3	40	3	1	17	32	.266	.300	.342	.642	109	9	0	1	4	3
George Mitterwald	117	409	369	36	82	12	2	15	46	3	5	34	84	.222	.291	.388	.679	143	11	2	4	0	6
Brant Alyea	94	290	258	34	75	12	1	16	61	3	3	28	51	.291	.366	.531	.897	137	12	3	0	1	0
Rod Carew	51	204	191	27	70	12	3	4	28	4	6	11	28	.366	.407	.524	.930	100	1	2	0	0	0
Danny Thompson	96	318	302	25	66	9	0	0	22	0	0	7	39	.219	.234	.248	.482	75	6	0	6	3	0
Rick Renick	81	204	179	20	41	8	0	7	25	0	2	22	29	.229	.317	.391	.708	70	6	1	2	0	0
Paul Ratliff	69	171	149	19	40	7	2	5	22	0	0	15	51	.268	.363	.443	.806	66	1	7	0	0	2
Frank Quilici	111	160	141	19	32	3	0	2	12	0	2	15	16	.227	.297	.291	.588	41	6	0	2	2	3
Jim Perry	41	109	97	9	24	4	0	1	6	0	0	1	14	.247	.253	.320	.572	31	1	0	10	1	0
Bob Allison	47	87	72	15	15	5	0	1	7	1	0	14	20	.208	.345	.319	.664	23	2	1	0	0	0
Jim Kaat	56	88	76	17	15	1	0	1	8	0	0	6	20	.197	.262	.250	.512	19	2	1	4	1	1
Luis Tiant	18	36	32	7	13	4	0	0	4	1	0	1	6	.406	.424	.531	.955	17	0	0	3	0	0
Charlie Manuel	59	73	64	4	12	0	0	1	7	0	0	6	17	.188	.260	.234	.495	15	1	1	0	2	2
Tom Tischinski	24	56	46	6	9	0	0	1	2	0	0	9	6	.196	.327	.261	.588	12	1	0	1	0	1
Tom Hall	53	50	44	4	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	9	.182	.182	.182	.364	8	1	0	6	0	0
Bert Blyleven	27	58	50	2	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	25	.140	.157	.140	.297	7	0	0	7	0	0
Bill Zepp	43	47	44	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	31	.136	.156	.136	.292	6	0	0	2	0	0
Jim Nettles	13	21	20	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	5	.250	.286	.250	.536	5	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Boswell	20	25	25	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.160	.160	.200	.360	5	0	0	0	0	0
Minnie Mendoza	16	16	16	2	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.188	.188	.188	.375	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hal Haydel	4	3	3	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	.667	.667	2.000	2.667	6	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Brye	9	13	11	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	4	.182	.308	.273	.580	3	0	0	0	0	0
Herman Hill	27	23	22	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.091	.091	.091	.182	2	0	0	1	0	0
Cotton Nash	4	5	4	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Perranoski	67	25	24	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	.042	.042	.042	.083	1	0	0	1	0	0
Pete Hamm	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Barber	19	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Stan Williams	68	19	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Woodson	21	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Dempsey	5	8	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	1	0	0	0	0
Totals	2200	6143	5483	744	1438	230	41	153	694	57	52	501	905	.262	.327	.403	.730	2209	132	42	79	38	65

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Rich Reese	1B	146	127	1183.0	1118	82	10	94	.992	9.129	8.219	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	1B	28	26	205.0	204	9	3	14	.986	9.351	7.607	0	0	0
Bob Allison	1B	7	7	39.0	36	4	2	2	.952	9.231	5.714	0	0	0
Cotton Nash	1B	2	0	9.0	11	0	0	2	1.000	11.000	5.500	0	0	0
Jim Holt	1B	2	1	7.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	3.500	0	0	0
Rod Carew	1B	1	1	5.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	6.000	0	0	0
Danny Thompson	2B	81	70	600.0	144	204	5	35	.986	5.220	4.296	0	0	0
Frank Quilici	2B	73	41	403.0	107	121	3	25	.987	5.092	3.123	0	0	0
Rod Carew	2B	45	45	377.0	73	122	8	26	.961	4.655	4.333	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	2B	8	6	56.0	17	10	2	5	.931	4.339	3.375	0	0	0
Minnie Mendoza	2B	4	0	13.0	7	3	0	0	1.000	6.923	2.500	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	3B	138	129	1075.0	108	203	17	14	.948	2.604	2.254	0	0	0
Rick Renick	3B	30	29	229.0	22	52	1	5	.987	2.908	2.467	0	0	0
Danny Thompson	3B	37	0	54.0	3	11	0	3	1.000	2.333	.378	0	0	0
Frank Quilici	3B	27	0	46.0	7	12	3	1	.864	3.717	.704	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	3B	4	4	39.0	2	3	3	0	.625	1.154	1.250	0	0	0
Minnie Mendoza	3B	5	0	5.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	5.400	.600	0	0	0
George Mitterwald	C	117	108	956.0	740	62	3	8	.996	7.550	6.855	8	34	39	53.4
Paul Ratliff	C	53	38	333.0	183	11	4	4	.980	5.243	3.660	2	13	3	18.8
Tom Tischinski	C	22	15	143.0	90	7	1	0	.990	6.105	4.409	1	6	5	45.5
Rick Dempsey	C	3	1	16.0	12	0	1	0	.923	6.750	4.000	0	2	0	0.0
Tony Oliva	OF	157	156	1376.0	351	12	12	4	.968	2.374	2.312	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	OF	151	146	1288.0	370	12	9	1	.977	2.669	2.530	0	0	0
Jim Holt	OF	130	71	778.0	201	2	1	0	.995	2.348	1.562	0	0	0
Brant Alyea	OF	75	75	514.0	93	4	2	0	.980	1.698	1.293	0	0	0
Rick Renick	OF	25	12	127.0	30	2	1	0	.970	2.268	1.280	0	0	0
Bob Allison	OF	17	9	87.0	18	0	0	0	1.000	1.862	1.059	0	0	0
Charlie Manuel	OF	11	6	52.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.212	.636	0	0	0
Herman Hill	OF	14	3	49.0	15	1	0	0	1.000	2.939	1.143	0	0	0
Jim Nettles	OF	11	4	44.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	1.636	.727	0	0	0
Steve Brye	OF	6	3	30.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.200	.667	0	0	0
Jim Perry	OF	1	1	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0
Jim Perry	P	40	40	279.0	11	47	1	0	.983	1.871	1.450	0	0	0
Jim Kaat	P	45	34	230.0	15	43	4	5	.935	2.270	1.289	0	0	0
Bert Blyleven	P	27	25	164.0	5	16	1	1	.955	1.152	.778	0	0	0
Tom Hall	P	52	11	155.0	2	9	2	1	.846	.639	.212	0	0	0
Bill Zepp	P	43	20	151.0	8	17	2	1	.926	1.490	.581	0	0	0
Stan Williams	P	68	0	113.0	8	8	0	0	1.000	1.274	.235	0	0	0
Ron Perranoski	P	67	0	111.0	0	15	1	0	.938	1.216	.224	0	0	0
Luis Tiant	P	18	17	93.0	3	14	1	2	.944	1.645	.944	0	0	0
Dave Boswell	P	18	15	69.0	6	5	0	1	1.000	1.435	.611	0	0	0
Dick Woodson	P	21	0	31.0	1	6	2	1	.778	2.032	.333	0	0	0
Steve Barber	P	18	0	27.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.333	.222	0	0	0
Pete Hamm	P	10	0	16.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.563	.100	0	0	0
Hal Haydel	P	4	0	9.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	.250	0	0	0
Leo Cardenas	SS	160	158	1400.0	280	487	17	91	.978	4.931	4.794	0	0	0
Danny Thompson	SS	6	4	42.0	9	14	1	1	.958	4.929	3.833	0	0	0
Frank Quilici	SS	1	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rick Renick	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		2030	1458	13034.0	4345	1636	123	347	.980	4.130	2.946	11	55	47	46.1

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BF
Stan Williams	ALCS	0		0.00	2	0	0	6.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	19
Bert Blyleven	ALCS	0		0.00	1	0	0	2.0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	9
Bill Zepp	ALCS	0		6.75	2	0	0	1.3	2	1	1	1	2	0	2	0	7
Dick Woodson	ALCS	0		9.00	1	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	6
Luis Tiant	ALCS	0		13.50	1	0	1	0.7	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	4
Ron Perranoski	ALCS	0		19.29	2	0	1	2.3	5	5	5	0	1	0	3	0	12
Tom Hall	ALCS	1	.000	6.75	2	1	0	5.3	6	4	4	1	4	0	6	0	26
Jim Kaat	ALCS	1	.000	9.00	1	1	0	2.0	6	4	2	0	2	1	1	0	15
Jim Perry	ALCS	1	.000	13.50	2	1	1	5.3	10	9	8	3	1	0	3	1	27
Totals		3	.000	7.62	14	3	3	26.0	36	27	22	6	12	1	19	1	125

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SH
Tony Oliva	ALCS	3	12	12	2	6	2	0	1	1	0	1	.500	.500	.917	1.417	11	0	0
Cesar Tovar	ALCS	3	13	13	2	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	.385	.385	.538	.923	7	0	0
George Mitterwald	ALCS	2	8	8	2	4	1	0	0	2	0	2	.500	.500	.625	1.125	5	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	ALCS	3	13	11	2	3	0	0	2	4	2	4	.273	.385	.818	1.203	9	0	0
Leo Cardenas	ALCS	3	13	11	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	.182	.250	.182	.432	2	1	1
Paul Ratliff	ALCS	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0
Rick Renick	ALCS	2	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0
Rich Reese	ALCS	2	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	.143	.250	.143	.393	1	0	0
Danny Thompson	ALCS	3	9	8	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	.125	.222	.250	.472	2	2	0
Bob Allison	ALCS	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0
Brant Alyea	ALCS	3	9	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.222	.000	.222	0	0	0
Rod Carew	ALCS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Tom Hall	ALCS	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Jim Holt	ALCS	3	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Jim Kaat	ALCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Charlie Manuel	ALCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Jim Perry	ALCS	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Frank Quilici	ALCS	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Bert Blyleven	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Ron Perranoski	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Luis Tiant	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Stan Williams	ALCS	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0
Dick Woodson	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Bill Zepp	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Totals		52	111	101	10	24	4	1	3	10	9	22	.238	.300	.386	.686	39	3	1

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Rich Reese	ALCS	1B	2	2	17.0	16	2	0	3	1.000	9.529	9.000
Harmon Killebrew	ALCS	1B	1	1	9.0	7	0	0	1	1.000	7.000	7.000
Danny Thompson	ALCS	2B	3	3	19.0	2	3	1	1	.833	2.368	1.667
Frank Quilici	ALCS	2B	2	0	6.0	1	1	0	1	1.000	3.000	1.000
Cesar Tovar	ALCS	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Harmon Killebrew	ALCS	3B	2	2	17.0	1	4	1	0	.833	2.647	2.500
Rick Renick	ALCS	3B	1	1	9.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	4.000	4.000
George Mitterwald	ALCS	C	2	2	18.0	16	1	0	2	1.000	8.500	8.500
Paul Ratliff	ALCS	C	1	1	8.0	7	0	1	0	.875	7.875	7.000
Cesar Tovar	ALCS	CF	2	2	16.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.688	1.500
Jim Holt	ALCS	CF	3	1	10.0	3	0	1	0	.750	2.700	1.000
Brant Alyea	ALCS	LF	2	2	17.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Cesar Tovar	ALCS	LF	2	1	9.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.500
Stan Williams	ALCS	P	2	0	6.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Jim Perry	ALCS	P	2	1	5.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.688	.500
Tom Hall	ALCS	P	2	1	5.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Ron Perranoski	ALCS	P	2	0	2.3	0	1	0	1	1.000	3.857	.500
Jim Kaat	ALCS	P	1	1	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Bert Blyleven	ALCS	P	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000
Bill Zepp	ALCS	P	2	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Dick Woodson	ALCS	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Luis Tiant	ALCS	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Tony Oliva	ALCS	RF	3	3	26.0	10	2	0	1	1.000	4.154	4.000
Leo Cardenas	ALCS	SS	3	3	26.0	6	11	2	3	.895	5.885	5.667
Totals			44	27	234.0	78	28	6	13	.946	4.077	2.409

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