1971 Minnesota Twins Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 74-86
Finished 5th in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 940,858, Avg. 12,545
Ballpark: Metropolitan Stadium
Manager: Bill Rigney (74-86)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota

1971 Minnesota Twins Roster
1971 Minnesota Twins Results

The Minnesota Twins of the American League ended the 1971 season with a record of 74 wins and 86 losses, finishing fifth in the AL's West Division.

The Twins scored 654 runs and allowed 670 runs. Harmon Killebrew led Minnesota with 28 home runs, while Leo Cardenas and Tony Oliva walloped 20 or more also. Harmon Killebrew accounted for 119 RBI. Tony Oliva paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .337. Jim Perry topped the team with 17 wins, and Bert Blyleven, too added 15 or more wins, too Bert Blyleven recorded a 2.81 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Rigney coached the team.

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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	17	17	.500	4.23	40	39	1	8	0	1	270.0	263	135	127	39	102	10	126	5	0	5	1146
Bert Blyleven	16	15	.516	2.81	38	38	0	17	5	0	278.3	267	95	87	21	59	1	224	5	1	5	1126
Jim Kaat	13	14	.481	3.32	39	38	0	15	4	0	260.3	275	104	96	16	47	9	137	6	0	8	1098
Ray Corbin	8	11	.421	4.10	52	11	19	2	0	3	140.3	141	74	64	19	70	11	83	3	0	7	620
Hal Haydel	4	2	.667	4.28	31	0	13	0	0	1	40.0	33	19	19	3	20	1	29	2	0	1	165
Stan Williams	4	5	.444	4.15	46	1	18	0	0	4	78.0	63	44	36	7	44	7	47	8	1	4	344
Tom Hall	4	7	.364	3.33	48	11	20	0	0	9	129.7	104	54	48	13	58	5	137	0	0	4	548
Pete Hamm	2	4	.333	6.75	13	8	3	1	0	0	44.0	55	33	33	7	18	1	16	1	0	1	201
Steve Luebber	2	5	.286	5.03	18	12	2	0	0	1	68.0	73	42	38	7	37	3	35	4	0	1	308
Jim Strickland	1	0	1.000	1.44	24	0	8	0	0	1	31.3	20	14	5	2	18	2	21	2	0	3	133
Steve Barber	1	0	1.000	6.17	4	2	0	0	0	0	11.7	8	9	8	2	13	1	4	0	0	1	56
Bob Gebhard	1	2	.333	3.00	17	0	10	0	0	0	18.0	17	6	6	0	11	3	13	1	0	0	85
Ron Perranoski	1	4	.200	6.75	36	0	22	0	0	5	42.7	60	39	32	2	28	4	21	3	1	2	218
Sal Campisi	0	0		4.15	6	0	1	0	0	0	4.3	5	2	2	1	4	0	2	0	0	0	21
Totals	74	86	.463	3.82	412	160	117	43	9	25	1416.7	1384	670	601	139	529	58	895	40	3	42	6069

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
Cesar Tovar	157	718	657	94	204	29	3	1	45	18	14	45	39	.311	.356	.368	.725	242	5	3	11	2	5
Rod Carew	147	632	577	88	177	16	10	2	48	6	7	45	81	.307	.356	.380	.736	219	23	1	6	3	1
Tony Oliva	126	518	487	73	164	30	3	22	81	4	1	25	44	.337	.369	.546	.915	266	21	2	0	4	8
Leo Cardenas	153	624	554	59	146	25	4	18	75	3	3	51	69	.264	.321	.421	.741	233	16	1	7	11	5
Harmon Killebrew	147	624	500	61	127	19	1	28	119	3	2	114	96	.254	.386	.464	.850	232	21	0	0	10	14
George Mitterwald	125	434	388	38	97	13	1	13	44	3	3	39	104	.250	.316	.389	.705	151	9	0	3	4	9
Jim Holt	126	361	340	35	88	11	3	1	29	5	1	16	28	.259	.292	.318	.610	108	11	1	2	2	4
Steve Braun	128	402	343	51	87	12	2	5	35	8	3	48	50	.254	.350	.344	.694	118	8	5	2	4	4
Rich Reese	120	359	329	40	72	8	3	10	39	7	4	20	35	.219	.270	.353	.623	116	9	5	0	5	2
Jim Nettles	70	190	168	17	42	5	1	6	24	3	2	19	24	.250	.321	.399	.720	67	2	0	0	3	2
Brant Alyea	79	188	158	13	28	4	0	2	15	1	1	24	38	.177	.282	.241	.522	38	7	1	0	5	3
Steve Brye	28	115	107	10	24	1	0	3	11	3	1	7	15	.224	.270	.318	.587	34	4	0	0	1	0
Phil Roof	31	95	87	6	21	4	0	0	6	0	1	8	18	.241	.305	.287	.593	25	6	0	0	0	0
Jim Perry	40	103	92	10	17	0	0	0	5	0	0	7	18	.185	.242	.185	.427	17	4	0	4	0	0
Danny Thompson	48	68	57	10	15	2	0	0	7	0	0	7	12	.263	.338	.298	.637	17	5	0	3	1	0
Jim Kaat	54	102	93	6	15	3	0	0	5	2	0	2	16	.161	.179	.194	.372	18	0	0	7	0	0
Bert Blyleven	38	100	91	3	12	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	37	.132	.151	.143	.293	13	0	1	7	0	0
Rick Renick	27	52	45	4	10	2	0	1	8	0	0	5	14	.222	.308	.333	.641	15	1	1	0	1	2
Eric Soderholm	21	78	64	9	10	4	0	1	4	0	1	10	17	.156	.299	.266	.564	17	1	3	1	0	1
Tom Hall	49	36	34	5	9	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.265	.286	.294	.580	10	1	0	1	0	0
George Thomas	23	34	30	4	8	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	3	.267	.353	.300	.653	9	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Corbin	52	40	34	3	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	17	.206	.250	.206	.456	7	0	0	4	0	0
Paul Ratliff	21	49	44	3	7	1	0	2	6	0	0	4	17	.159	.224	.318	.543	14	0	0	0	1	1
Paul Powell	20	35	31	7	5	0	0	1	2	0	0	3	12	.161	.235	.258	.493	8	1	0	1	0	0
Rick Dempsey	6	14	13	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.308	.357	.385	.742	5	1	0	0	0	0
Pete Hamm	13	12	11	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.273	.273	.364	.636	4	0	0	1	0	0
Tom Tischinski	21	25	23	0	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	.130	.200	.217	.417	5	2	1	0	0	0
Charlie Manuel	18	17	16	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.125	.176	.188	.364	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hal Haydel	31	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Luebber	19	21	19	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.053	.053	.053	.105	1	0	0	2	0	0
Ron Perranoski	36	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Strickland	24	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Barber	6	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stan Williams	46	12	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.000	.091	.000	.091	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Gebhard	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Sal Campisi	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2073	6072	5414	654	1406	197	31	116	618	66	44	512	846	.260	.323	.372	.695	2013	158	25	64	57	61

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Harmon Killebrew	1B	90	82	706.0	658	56	2	52	.997	9.102	7.933	0	0	0
Rich Reese	1B	95	76	693.0	673	43	4	71	.994	9.299	7.537	0	0	0
Jim Holt	1B	3	2	16.0	10	0	0	1	1.000	5.625	3.333	0	0	0
George Thomas	1B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rod Carew	2B	142	137	1209.0	321	329	16	76	.976	4.839	4.577	0	0	0
Steve Braun	2B	28	20	174.0	41	58	1	11	.990	5.121	3.536	0	0	0
Danny Thompson	2B	3	3	24.0	4	6	1	0	.909	3.750	3.333	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	2B	2	0	10.0	1	4	0	1	1.000	4.500	2.500	0	0	0
Steve Braun	3B	73	59	543.0	48	106	11	7	.933	2.552	2.110	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	3B	64	60	511.0	42	93	11	3	.925	2.378	2.109	0	0	0
Eric Soderholm	3B	20	20	177.0	17	48	4	2	.942	3.305	3.250	0	0	0
Danny Thompson	3B	17	8	74.0	9	17	3	2	.897	3.162	1.529	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	3B	7	5	45.0	3	9	2	1	.857	2.400	1.714	0	0	0
Rick Renick	3B	7	5	44.0	3	8	2	0	.846	2.250	1.571	0	0	0
Rod Carew	3B	2	2	14.0	3	2	0	0	1.000	3.214	2.500	0	0	0
George Thomas	3B	1	1	9.0	1	1	1	0	.667	2.000	2.000	0	0	0
George Mitterwald	C	120	109	970.0	656	53	10	7	.986	6.578	5.908	6	48	30	38.5
Phil Roof	C	29	28	234.0	185	16	3	2	.985	7.731	6.931	5	10	6	37.5
Paul Ratliff	C	15	12	100.0	73	6	0	0	1.000	7.110	5.267	0	4	2	33.3
Tom Tischinski	C	21	7	76.0	49	6	1	3	.982	6.513	2.619	1	7	3	30.0
Rick Dempsey	C	6	4	37.0	30	4	2	0	.944	8.270	5.667	0	4	2	33.3
Cesar Tovar	OF	154	150	1315.0	348	14	5	3	.986	2.478	2.351	0	0	0
Tony Oliva	OF	121	120	1018.0	216	6	7	3	.969	1.963	1.835	0	0	0
Jim Holt	OF	106	78	744.0	209	4	3	2	.986	2.577	2.009	0	0	0
Jim Nettles	OF	62	42	414.0	139	3	2	1	.986	3.087	2.290	0	0	0
Brant Alyea	OF	48	44	303.0	47	3	2	0	.962	1.485	1.042	0	0	0
Steve Brye	OF	28	28	249.0	53	4	2	0	.966	2.060	2.036	0	0	0
Paul Powell	OF	15	6	73.0	24	0	0	0	1.000	2.959	1.600	0	0	0
Rich Reese	OF	9	6	53.0	6	1	0	0	1.000	1.189	.778	0	0	0
George Thomas	OF	11	2	38.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	.947	.364	0	0	0
Rick Renick	OF	7	4	38.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	1.895	1.143	0	0	0
Steve Braun	OF	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Charlie Manuel	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bert Blyleven	P	38	38	278.0	19	38	2	0	.966	1.845	1.500	0	0	0
Jim Perry	P	40	39	270.0	17	44	0	4	1.000	2.033	1.525	0	0	0
Jim Kaat	P	39	38	260.0	13	41	1	4	.982	1.869	1.385	0	0	0
Ray Corbin	P	52	11	140.0	7	30	2	0	.949	2.379	.712	0	0	0
Tom Hall	P	48	11	130.0	8	19	1	0	.964	1.869	.563	0	0	0
Stan Williams	P	46	1	78.0	4	8	1	1	.923	1.385	.261	0	0	0
Steve Luebber	P	18	12	68.0	2	12	0	1	1.000	1.853	.778	0	0	0
Pete Hamm	P	13	8	44.0	6	7	0	0	1.000	2.659	1.000	0	0	0
Ron Perranoski	P	36	0	43.0	1	8	2	0	.818	1.884	.250	0	0	0
Hal Haydel	P	31	0	40.0	1	7	1	0	.889	1.800	.258	0	0	0
Jim Strickland	P	24	0	31.0	4	5	1	0	.900	2.613	.375	0	0	0
Bob Gebhard	P	17	0	18.0	0	7	0	0	1.000	3.500	.412	0	0	0
Steve Barber	P	4	2	12.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	.500	0	0	0
Sal Campisi	P	6	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.167	0	0	0
Leo Cardenas	SS	153	152	1333.0	266	445	11	89	.985	4.800	4.647	0	0	0
Steve Braun	SS	10	8	81.0	18	29	1	6	.979	5.222	4.700	0	0	0
Danny Thompson	SS	1	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1886	1440	12751.0	4248	1603	118	353	.980	4.130	3.102	12	73	43	37.1

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