1972 Minnesota Twins Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 77-77
Finished 3rd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 797,901, Avg. 11,704
Ballpark: Metropolitan Stadium
Manager: Bill Rigney (36-34)
Manager: Frank Quilici (41-43)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota

1972 Minnesota Twins Roster
1972 Minnesota Twins Results

The Minnesota Twins of the American League ended the 1972 season with a record of 77 wins and 77 losses, finishing third in the AL's West Division.

The Twins plated 537 runs and yielded 535 runs. Harmon Killebrew paced Minnesota with 26 home runs, and Bobby Darwin walloped 20 or more, too. Bobby Darwin drove in 80 runs. Rod Carew topped all regular hitters by hitting .318. Bert Blyleven led the team with 17 wins, while Ray Corbin recorded a 2.62 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Rigney and Frank Quilici 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
Bert Blyleven	17	17	.500	2.73	39	38	1	11	3	0	287.3	247	93	87	22	69	7	228	10	1	7	1158
Dick Woodson	14	14	.500	2.72	36	36	0	9	3	0	251.7	193	93	76	19	101	5	150	2	1	4	1033
Jim Perry	13	16	.448	3.35	35	35	0	5	2	0	217.7	191	93	81	14	60	5	85	8	0	4	898
Jim Kaat	10	2	.833	2.06	15	15	0	5	0	0	113.3	94	36	26	6	20	2	64	0	0	2	443
Ray Corbin	8	9	.471	2.62	31	19	5	5	3	0	161.7	135	56	47	12	53	3	83	6	0	2	657
Dave LaRoche	5	7	.417	2.83	62	0	43	0	0	10	95.3	72	33	30	9	39	6	79	6	1	2	396
Wayne Granger	4	6	.400	3.01	63	0	40	0	0	19	89.7	83	42	30	7	28	6	45	2	0	0	378
Jim Strickland	3	1	.750	2.50	25	0	14	0	0	3	36.0	28	16	10	7	19	2	30	0	1	2	152
Dave Goltz	3	3	.500	2.67	15	11	2	2	0	1	91.0	75	30	27	5	26	3	38	0	1	1	368
Steve Luebber	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.3	3	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	12
Tom Norton	0	1	.000	2.78	21	0	7	0	0	0	32.3	31	14	10	1	14	0	22	1	0	1	139
Bob Gebhard	0	1	.000	8.57	13	0	4	0	0	1	21.0	36	29	20	3	13	2	13	2	0	1	116
Totals	77	77	.500	2.86	357	154	117	37	11	34	1399.3	1188	535	444	105	444	42	838	37	5	26	5750

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
Rod Carew	142	591	535	61	170	21	6	0	51	12	6	43	60	.318	.369	.379	.749	203	11	2	9	2	9
Danny Thompson	144	624	573	54	158	22	6	4	48	3	4	34	57	.276	.318	.356	.674	204	14	2	13	2	1
Cesar Tovar	141	607	548	86	145	20	6	2	31	21	10	39	39	.265	.329	.334	.663	183	6	14	5	1	6
Bobby Darwin	145	562	513	48	137	20	2	22	80	2	3	38	145	.267	.326	.442	.769	227	24	8	1	2	4
Steve Braun	121	455	402	40	116	21	0	2	50	4	5	45	38	.289	.360	.356	.716	143	14	2	2	4	1
Harmon Killebrew	139	532	433	53	100	13	2	26	74	0	1	94	91	.231	.367	.450	.817	195	16	1	0	4	12
Steve Brye	100	272	253	18	61	9	3	0	12	3	1	17	38	.241	.292	.300	.592	76	5	1	1	0	1
Eric Soderholm	93	313	287	28	54	10	0	13	39	3	3	19	48	.188	.245	.359	.604	103	6	3	3	1	2
Jim Nettles	102	268	235	28	48	5	2	4	15	4	3	32	52	.204	.302	.294	.596	69	5	1	0	0	3
Rich Reese	132	223	197	23	43	3	2	5	26	0	1	25	27	.218	.305	.330	.635	65	4	0	0	1	4
Glenn Borgmann	56	203	175	11	41	4	0	3	14	0	0	25	25	.234	.325	.309	.634	54	4	0	0	3	8
Phil Roof	61	158	146	16	30	11	1	3	12	0	1	6	27	.205	.235	.356	.591	52	1	0	5	1	0
George Mitterwald	64	173	163	12	30	4	1	1	8	0	1	9	37	.184	.225	.239	.465	39	5	0	0	1	2
Charlie Manuel	63	129	122	6	25	5	0	1	8	0	0	4	16	.205	.233	.270	.503	33	1	1	0	2	0
Rick Renick	55	110	93	10	16	2	0	4	8	0	1	15	25	.172	.282	.323	.604	30	5	0	0	2	0
Dan Monzon	55	65	55	13	15	1	0	0	5	1	0	8	12	.273	.365	.291	.656	16	1	0	2	0	0
Bert Blyleven	39	107	94	9	15	2	0	0	6	0	0	2	36	.160	.177	.181	.358	17	1	0	11	0	0
Jim Kaat	24	47	45	3	13	3	0	2	4	0	1	1	16	.289	.304	.489	.793	22	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Holt	10	28	27	6	12	1	0	1	6	0	0	0	1	.444	.429	.593	1.021	16	1	0	0	1	0
Jim Perry	35	80	71	3	11	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	14	.155	.187	.169	.356	12	0	0	5	1	0
Tony Oliva	10	30	28	1	9	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	5	.321	.367	.357	.724	10	1	0	0	0	0
Rick Dempsey	25	47	40	0	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	8	.200	.304	.225	.529	9	2	0	1	0	0
Dick Woodson	36	98	88	4	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	38	.080	.100	.080	.180	7	0	0	8	0	0
Ray Corbin	34	53	49	1	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	19	.082	.118	.102	.220	5	1	0	2	0	0
Dave Goltz	15	34	29	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	17	.103	.161	.103	.265	3	1	0	3	0	0
Mike Adams	3	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	2	0	0	0	0	0
Wayne Granger	63	10	10	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.200	.200	.300	.500	3	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Strickland	25	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	.333	.500	.333	.833	1	0	0	0	0	0
Dave LaRoche	62	15	11	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	6	.091	.286	.091	.377	1	0	0	1	0	0
Bucky Guth	3	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Norton	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Luebber	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Gebhard	13	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2033	5848	5234	537	1277	182	31	93	506	53	41	478	905	.244	.310	.344	.654	1800	129	35	73	28	53

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Harmon Killebrew	1B	130	128	995.0	995	99	9	82	.992	9.895	8.415	0	0	0
Rich Reese	1B	98	26	388.0	392	30	5	35	.988	9.789	4.306	0	0	0
Rick Renick	1B	6	0	10.0	11	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	2.000	0	0	0
Jim Holt	1B	1	0	5.0	6	1	0	0	1.000	12.600	7.000	0	0	0
Jim Nettles	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Rod Carew	2B	139	133	1184.0	331	378	16	85	.978	5.389	5.101	0	0	0
Steve Braun	2B	20	13	138.0	36	39	2	12	.974	4.891	3.750	0	0	0
Dan Monzon	2B	13	8	77.0	17	25	1	2	.977	4.909	3.231	0	0	0
Eric Soderholm	3B	79	75	690.0	66	163	14	17	.942	2.987	2.899	0	0	0
Steve Braun	3B	74	72	644.0	49	146	6	14	.970	2.725	2.635	0	0	0
Rick Renick	3B	4	4	33.0	1	9	1	0	.909	2.727	2.500	0	0	0
Dan Monzon	3B	5	3	32.0	5	5	0	0	1.000	2.813	2.000	0	0	0
Glenn Borgmann	C	56	54	474.0	304	31	12	4	.965	6.361	5.982	2	20	14	41.2
Phil Roof	C	61	48	408.0	257	11	6	0	.978	5.912	4.393	1	16	10	38.5
George Mitterwald	C	61	44	404.0	272	33	5	4	.984	6.795	5.000	2	28	20	41.7
Rick Dempsey	C	23	8	113.0	67	5	1	0	.986	5.735	3.130	2	5	4	44.4
Cesar Tovar	OF	139	134	1194.0	287	10	5	2	.983	2.239	2.137	0	0	0
Bobby Darwin	OF	142	131	1193.0	289	8	6	1	.980	2.241	2.092	0	0	0
Steve Brye	OF	93	60	626.0	170	9	1	1	.994	2.573	1.925	0	0	0
Jim Nettles	OF	78	58	572.0	156	5	3	1	.982	2.533	2.064	0	0	0
Charlie Manuel	OF	28	27	194.0	39	4	1	0	.977	1.995	1.536	0	0	0
Rick Renick	OF	21	18	140.0	27	0	0	0	1.000	1.736	1.286	0	0	0
Rich Reese	OF	13	12	96.0	27	0	2	0	.931	2.531	2.077	0	0	0
Steve Braun	OF	9	7	69.0	19	2	1	0	.955	2.739	2.333	0	0	0
Tony Oliva	OF	9	9	54.0	6	0	1	0	.857	1.000	.667	0	0	0
Jim Holt	OF	7	5	49.0	10	1	1	0	.917	2.020	1.571	0	0	0
Mike Adams	OF	1	1	10.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.900	1.000	0	0	0
Dan Monzon	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bert Blyleven	P	39	38	287.0	18	45	3	4	.955	1.976	1.615	0	0	0
Dick Woodson	P	36	36	252.0	17	43	4	1	.938	2.143	1.667	0	0	0
Jim Perry	P	35	35	218.0	21	28	6	3	.891	2.023	1.400	0	0	0
Ray Corbin	P	31	19	162.0	12	16	4	1	.875	1.556	.903	0	0	0
Jim Kaat	P	15	15	113.0	5	19	2	0	.923	1.912	1.600	0	0	0
Dave LaRoche	P	62	0	95.0	2	15	0	0	1.000	1.611	.274	0	0	0
Dave Goltz	P	15	11	91.0	8	14	1	0	.957	2.176	1.467	0	0	0
Wayne Granger	P	63	0	90.0	5	14	2	0	.905	1.900	.302	0	0	0
Jim Strickland	P	25	0	36.0	3	6	2	1	.818	2.250	.360	0	0	0
Tom Norton	P	21	0	32.0	4	9	0	0	1.000	3.656	.619	0	0	0
Bob Gebhard	P	13	0	21.0	2	5	0	1	1.000	3.000	.538	0	0	0
Steve Luebber	P	2	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
Danny Thompson	SS	144	144	1295.0	247	468	32	76	.957	4.969	4.965	0	0	0
Steve Braun	SS	11	8	78.0	6	20	4	0	.867	3.000	2.364	0	0	0
Dan Monzon	SS	3	1	16.0	7	8	0	5	1.000	8.438	5.000	0	0	0
Bucky Guth	SS	1	1	9.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	4.000	4.000	0	0	0
Rick Renick	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1829	1386	12592.0	4198	1730	159	352	.974	4.237	3.241	7	69	48	41.0

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