1978 Minnesota Twins Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 73-89
Finished 4th in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 787,878, Avg. 10,793
Ballpark: Metropolitan Stadium
Manager: Gene Mauch (73-89)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota

1978 Minnesota Twins Roster
1978 Minnesota Twins Results

The Minnesota Twins of the American League ended the 1978 season with a record of 73 wins and 89 losses, finishing fourth in the AL's West Division.

The Twins plated 666 runs and conceded 678 runs. Roy Smalley paced Minnesota with 19 home runs Dan Ford recorded 82 runs batted in. Rod Carew topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .333. Dave Goltz led the team with 15 wins and a team-best 2.49 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Gene Mauch 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
Dave Goltz	15	10	.600	2.49	29	29	0	13	2	0	220.3	209	72	61	12	67	1	116	1	1	4	913
Roger Erickson	14	13	.519	3.96	37	37	0	14	0	0	265.7	268	129	117	19	79	1	121	8	3	8	1120
Geoff Zahn	14	14	.500	3.03	35	35	0	12	1	0	252.3	260	101	85	18	81	2	106	4	0	7	1056
Mike Marshall	10	12	.455	2.45	54	0	51	0	0	21	99.0	80	31	27	3	37	1	56	1	0	2	404
Gary Serum	9	9	.500	4.10	34	23	4	6	1	1	184.3	188	88	84	14	44	2	80	3	3	5	774
Darrell Jackson	4	6	.400	4.48	19	15	1	1	1	0	92.3	89	53	46	9	48	1	54	2	4	3	404
Stan Perzanowski	2	7	.222	5.24	13	7	4	1	0	1	56.7	59	37	33	1	26	0	31	4	0	2	252
Jeff Holly	1	1	.500	3.57	15	1	6	0	0	0	35.3	28	15	14	1	18	3	12	0	1	3	150
Greg Thayer	1	1	.500	3.80	20	0	12	0	0	0	45.0	40	19	19	5	30	1	30	3	1	1	194
Mac Scarce	1	1	.500	3.94	17	0	5	0	0	0	32.0	35	19	14	5	15	0	17	3	0	2	143
Tom Johnson	1	4	.200	5.51	18	0	14	0	0	3	32.7	42	22	20	2	17	4	21	2	1	2	155
Paul Thormodsgard	1	6	.143	5.05	12	12	0	1	0	0	66.0	81	40	37	7	17	0	23	1	0	3	286
John Sutton	0	0		3.45	17	0	8	0	0	0	44.3	46	19	17	3	15	3	18	1	0	5	191
Roric Harrison	0	1	.000	7.50	9	0	5	0	0	0	12.0	18	10	10	0	11	0	7	0	0	1	64
Pete Redfern	0	2	.000	6.52	3	2	0	0	0	0	9.7	10	12	7	2	6	0	4	0	0	0	44
Dave Johnson	0	2	.000	7.50	6	1	4	0	0	0	12.0	15	11	10	1	9	0	7	0	0	3	58
Totals	73	89	.451	3.71	338	162	114	48	5	26	1459.7	1468	678	601	102	520	19	703	33	14	51	6208

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	152	651	564	85	188	26	10	5	70	27	7	78	62	.333	.411	.441	.853	249	18	1	2	6	19
Dan Ford	151	654	592	78	162	36	10	11	82	7	7	48	88	.274	.332	.424	.756	251	15	5	6	3	6
Roy Smalley	158	702	586	80	160	31	3	19	77	2	8	85	70	.273	.362	.433	.796	254	16	1	23	7	3
Mike Cubbage	125	444	394	40	111	12	7	7	57	3	1	40	44	.282	.348	.401	.749	158	7	1	7	2	3
Willie Norwood	125	471	428	56	109	22	3	8	46	25	10	28	64	.255	.301	.376	.677	161	15	3	6	6	0
Butch Wynegar	135	522	454	36	104	22	1	4	45	1	0	47	42	.229	.307	.308	.616	140	7	6	11	4	2
Hosken Powell	121	437	381	55	94	20	2	3	31	11	5	45	31	.247	.323	.333	.657	127	5	0	7	4	1
Bob Randall	119	375	330	36	89	11	3	0	21	5	3	24	22	.270	.329	.321	.650	106	7	6	13	2	0
Glenn Adams	116	329	310	27	80	18	1	7	35	0	1	17	32	.258	.297	.390	.687	121	10	0	2	0	0
Jose Morales	101	273	242	22	76	13	1	2	38	0	1	20	35	.314	.363	.401	.764	97	10	1	6	4	3
Bombo Rivera	101	295	251	35	68	8	2	3	23	5	3	35	47	.271	.362	.355	.717	89	3	2	5	2	1
Larry Wolfe	88	277	235	25	55	10	1	3	25	0	1	36	27	.234	.332	.323	.656	76	8	0	3	3	0
Rich Chiles	87	225	198	22	53	12	0	1	22	1	2	20	25	.268	.333	.343	.677	68	9	2	0	5	2
Rob Wilfong	92	235	199	23	53	8	0	1	11	8	4	19	27	.266	.336	.322	.658	64	1	2	15	0	1
Craig Kusick	77	233	191	23	33	3	2	4	20	3	2	37	38	.173	.305	.272	.577	52	8	1	0	4	2
Glenn Borgmann	49	147	123	16	26	4	1	3	15	0	0	18	17	.211	.306	.333	.639	41	0	0	3	3	0
Dave Edwards	15	53	44	7	11	3	0	1	3	1	1	7	13	.250	.377	.386	.764	17	0	2	0	0	0
Mac Scarce	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Serum	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Sutton	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Greg Thayer	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Thormodsgard	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Holly	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Redfern	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Darrell Jackson	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Johnson	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Johnson	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Marshall	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Roric Harrison	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Goltz	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Stan Perzanowski	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Erickson	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Geoff Zahn	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2150	6323	5522	666	1472	259	47	82	621	99	56	604	684	.267	.339	.375	.714	2071	139	33	109	55	43

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Rod Carew	1B	148	138	1263.0	1362	105	16	134	.989	1.454	9.912	0	0	0
Craig Kusick	1B	27	24	191.7	213	22	3	14	.987	11.035	8.704	0	0	0
Jose Morales	1B	1	0	5.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	5.400	3.000	0	0	0
Bob Randall	2B	116	93	860.0	231	345	10	81	.983	6.028	4.966	0	0	0
Rob Wilfong	2B	80	69	583.7	152	196	5	37	.986	5.366	4.350	0	0	0
Mike Cubbage	2B	5	0	11.0	4	4	0	1	1.000	6.545	1.600	0	0	0
Rod Carew	2B	4	0	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	.250	0	0	0
Mike Cubbage	3B	115	100	874.0	65	233	9	24	.971	3.069	2.591	0	0	0
Larry Wolfe	3B	81	62	580.7	60	143	10	9	.953	3.146	2.506	0	0	0
Bob Randall	3B	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Butch Wynegar	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Butch Wynegar	C	131	121	1105.3	582	70	8	12	.988	5.309	4.977	6	71	57	44.5
Glenn Borgmann	C	46	41	353.3	185	20	2	6	.990	5.222	4.457	0	20	19	48.7
Jose Morales	C	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	1	0	0
Dan Ford	OF	149	147	1319.7	376	6	9	2	.977	2.605	2.564	0	0	0
Willie Norwood	OF	115	106	946.0	227	7	14	1	.944	2.226	2.035	0	0	0
Hosken Powell	OF	117	99	896.7	219	9	4	2	.983	2.288	1.949	0	0	0
Bombo Rivera	OF	94	60	604.0	162	5	3	0	.982	2.488	1.777	0	0	0
Rich Chiles	OF	61	54	434.7	108	3	4	0	.965	2.298	1.820	0	0	0
Dave Edwards	OF	15	13	110.0	35	3	2	1	.950	3.109	2.533	0	0	0
Craig Kusick	OF	9	7	58.7	15	0	1	0	.938	2.301	1.667	0	0	0
Glenn Adams	OF	5	0	7.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	6.429	1.000	0	0	0
Jose Morales	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rod Carew	OF	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Roger Erickson	P	37	37	265.7	13	44	5	3	.919	1.931	1.541	0	0	0
Geoff Zahn	P	35	35	252.3	9	41	2	2	.962	1.783	1.429	0	0	0
Dave Goltz	P	29	29	220.3	24	28	2	2	.963	2.124	1.793	0	0	0
Gary Serum	P	34	23	184.3	17	25	0	2	1.000	2.051	1.235	0	0	0
Mike Marshall	P	54	0	99.0	9	19	1	1	.966	2.545	.519	0	0	0
Darrell Jackson	P	19	15	92.3	1	13	3	1	.824	1.365	.737	0	0	0
Paul Thormodsgard	P	12	12	66.0	3	9	2	0	.857	1.636	1.000	0	0	0
Stan Perzanowski	P	13	7	56.7	3	11	1	1	.933	2.224	1.077	0	0	0
Greg Thayer	P	20	0	45.0	0	7	0	0	1.000	1.400	.350	0	0	0
John Sutton	P	17	0	44.3	2	6	2	0	.800	1.624	.471	0	0	0
Jeff Holly	P	15	1	35.3	0	8	0	0	1.000	2.038	.533	0	0	0
Tom Johnson	P	18	0	32.7	0	6	0	0	1.000	1.653	.333	0	0	0
Mac Scarce	P	17	0	32.0	0	2	1	0	.667	.563	.118	0	0	0
Dave Johnson	P	6	1	12.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.500	0	0	0
Roric Harrison	P	9	0	12.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Pete Redfern	P	3	2	9.7	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.793	1.000	0	0	0
Roy Smalley	SS	157	157	1408.7	287	527	25	121	.970	5.201	5.185	0	0	0
Larry Wolfe	SS	7	5	51.0	6	20	2	2	.929	4.588	3.714	0	0	0
Totals		1827	1458	13137.0	4379	1943	146	459	.977	4.331	3.460	7	91	76	45.5

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