1988 Minnesota Twins Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 91-71
Finished 2nd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 3,030,672, Avg. 37,407
Ballpark: Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome
Manager: Tom Kelly (91-71)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota

1988 Minnesota Twins Roster
1988 Minnesota Twins Results

The Minnesota Twins of the American League ended the 1988 season with a record of 91 wins and 71 losses, finishing second in the AL's West Division.

The Twins tallied 759 runs and allowed 672 runs. Gary Gaetti paced Minnesota with 28 home runs, while Kent Hrbek and Kirby Puckett walloped 20 or more as well. Kirby Puckett drove in 121 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .356. Frank Viola recorded 24 wins on the mound for the team, and Allan Anderson also added 15 or more wins also Allan Anderson registered a 2.45 earned run average, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Tom Kelly 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
Frank Viola	24	7	.774	2.64	35	35	0	7	2	0	255.3	236	80	75	20	54	2	193	3	1	5	1031
Allan Anderson	16	9	.640	2.45	30	30	0	3	1	0	202.3	199	70	55	14	37	1	83	7	4	1	815
Bert Blyleven	10	17	.370	5.43	33	33	0	7	0	0	207.3	240	128	125	21	51	1	145	16	3	5	895
Juan Berenguer	8	4	.667	3.96	57	1	27	0	0	2	100.0	74	44	44	7	61	7	99	1	5	3	428
Keith Atherton	7	5	.583	3.41	49	0	13	0	0	3	74.0	65	29	28	10	22	4	43	2	0	1	309
Freddie Toliver	7	6	.538	4.24	21	19	0	0	0	0	114.7	116	57	54	8	52	1	69	1	1	10	491
Charlie Lea	7	7	.500	4.85	24	23	0	0	0	0	130.0	156	79	70	19	50	2	72	5	4	6	585
Roy Smith	3	0	1.000	2.68	9	4	1	0	0	0	37.0	29	12	11	3	12	1	17	1	4	1	152
Mark Portugal	3	3	.500	4.53	26	0	9	0	0	3	57.7	60	30	29	11	17	1	31	1	2	2	242
Jeff Reardon	2	4	.333	2.47	63	0	58	0	0	42	73.0	68	21	20	6	15	2	56	2	3	0	299
Les Straker	2	5	.286	3.92	16	14	1	1	1	1	82.7	86	39	36	8	25	1	23	0	3	4	341
Jim Winn	1	0	1.000	6.00	9	0	5	0	0	0	21.0	33	15	14	4	10	1	9	0	1	3	104
Joe Niekro	1	1	.500	10.03	5	2	2	0	0	0	11.7	16	13	13	2	9	0	7	0	3	2	59
Dan Gladden	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
German Gonzalez	0	0		3.38	16	0	14	0	0	1	21.3	20	8	8	4	8	1	19	1	0	0	92
Karl Best	0	0		6.00	11	0	8	0	0	0	12.0	15	9	8	1	7	1	9	0	1	0	59
Tippy Martinez	0	0		18.00	3	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	8	9	8	1	4	0	3	1	1	0	24
Dan Schatzeder	0	1	.000	1.74	10	0	2	0	0	0	10.3	8	2	2	1	5	1	7	1	0	0	44
Mike Mason	0	1	.000	10.80	5	0	0	0	0	0	6.7	8	8	8	1	9	0	7	0	0	0	37
Steve Carlton	0	1	.000	16.76	4	1	1	0	0	0	9.7	20	19	18	5	5	1	5	0	2	0	54
Totals	91	71	.562	3.94	427	162	144	18	4	52	1431.7	1457	672	626	146	453	28	897	42	38	43	6064

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
Kirby Puckett	158	691	657	109	234	42	5	24	121	6	7	23	83	.356	.375	.545	.920	358	17	2	0	9	4
Kent Hrbek	143	586	510	75	159	31	0	25	76	0	3	67	54	.312	.387	.520	.907	265	9	0	2	7	7
Dan Gladden	141	633	576	91	155	32	6	11	62	28	8	46	74	.269	.325	.403	.728	232	9	4	2	5	4
Gary Gaetti	133	516	468	66	141	29	2	28	88	7	4	36	85	.301	.353	.551	.905	258	10	5	1	6	5
Gene Larkin	149	594	505	56	135	30	2	8	70	3	2	68	55	.267	.368	.382	.750	193	12	15	1	5	8
Greg Gagne	149	507	461	70	109	20	6	14	48	15	7	27	110	.236	.288	.397	.685	183	13	7	11	1	2
Randy Bush	136	466	394	51	103	20	3	14	51	8	6	58	49	.261	.365	.434	.799	171	8	9	0	5	14
Tim Laudner	117	418	375	38	94	18	1	13	54	0	0	36	89	.251	.316	.408	.724	153	14	1	3	3	0
Tom Herr	86	345	304	42	80	16	0	1	21	10	3	40	47	.263	.349	.326	.674	99	9	0	1	0	1
John Moses	105	225	206	33	65	10	3	2	12	11	6	15	21	.316	.366	.422	.788	87	4	2	1	1	2
Steve Lombardozzi	103	335	287	34	60	15	2	3	27	2	5	35	48	.209	.295	.307	.601	88	2	2	6	5	2
Al Newman	105	295	260	35	58	7	0	0	19	12	3	29	34	.223	.301	.250	.551	65	4	0	6	0	0
Brian Harper	60	182	166	15	49	11	1	3	20	0	3	10	12	.295	.344	.428	.772	71	12	3	2	1	1
Mark Davidson	100	119	106	22	23	7	0	1	10	3	3	10	20	.217	.288	.311	.599	33	3	1	1	1	0
Jim Dwyer	20	56	41	6	12	1	0	2	15	0	0	13	8	.293	.464	.463	.928	19	1	1	0	1	1
John Christensen	23	43	38	5	10	4	0	0	5	0	0	3	5	.263	.349	.368	.717	14	1	2	0	0	1
Tom Brunansky	14	56	49	5	9	1	0	1	6	1	2	7	11	.184	.286	.265	.551	13	0	0	0	0	0
Eric Bullock	16	20	17	3	5	0	0	0	3	1	0	3	1	.294	.400	.294	.694	5	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Nieto	24	62	60	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	17	.067	.097	.067	.163	4	2	1	0	0	0
Kelvin Torve	12	17	16	1	3	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	2	.188	.235	.375	.610	6	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Baker	11	7	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dwight Lowry	7	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Schatzeder	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Winn	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Portugal	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Viola	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Les Straker	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Reardon	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Freddie Toliver	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Roy Smith	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Juan Berenguer	57	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Karl Best	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Carlton	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Allan Anderson	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
German Gonzalez	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bert Blyleven	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Charlie Lea	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tippy Martinez	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Mason	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Keith Atherton	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2238	6180	5510	759	1508	294	31	151	710	107	63	528	832	.274	.340	.421	.761	2317	130	55	37	50	52

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Kent Hrbek	1B	105	103	892.7	842	57	3	92	.997	9.064	8.562	0	0	0
Gene Larkin	1B	60	56	496.0	466	28	3	46	.994	8.964	8.233	0	0	0
Kelvin Torve	1B	4	2	21.0	14	1	0	1	1.000	6.429	3.750	0	0	0
Randy Bush	1B	6	1	18.0	19	2	0	1	1.000	1.500	3.500	0	0	0
Tim Laudner	1B	3	0	4.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	6.750	1.000	0	0	0
Steve Lombardozzi	2B	90	74	671.0	140	211	5	47	.986	4.708	3.900	0	0	0
Tom Herr	2B	73	73	625.3	140	195	4	54	.988	4.821	4.589	0	0	0
Al Newman	2B	23	15	133.3	29	35	1	9	.985	4.320	2.783	0	0	0
Greg Gagne	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Doug Baker	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dan Gladden	2B	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0
Gary Gaetti	3B	115	115	975.3	105	189	7	24	.977	2.713	2.557	0	0	0
Al Newman	3B	60	45	430.3	37	76	4	12	.966	2.363	1.883	0	0	0
Steve Lombardozzi	3B	5	2	20.0	0	3	0	1	1.000	1.350	.600	0	0	0
Brian Harper	3B	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Dan Gladden	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mark Davidson	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Doug Baker	3B	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Greg Gagne	3B	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0
Tim Laudner	C	109	102	892.7	621	35	5	8	.992	6.614	6.018	8	76	25	24.8
Brian Harper	C	48	41	361.0	207	15	2	0	.991	5.535	4.625	3	22	12	35.3
Tom Nieto	C	24	18	164.0	108	6	1	1	.991	6.256	4.750	2	10	3	23.1
Dwight Lowry	C	5	1	14.0	12	1	0	0	1.000	8.357	2.600	0	4	1	20.0
Kirby Puckett	OF	158	157	1349.7	450	12	3	4	.994	3.081	2.924	0	0	0
Dan Gladden	OF	140	134	1197.3	319	12	3	5	.991	2.488	2.364	0	0	0
Randy Bush	OF	109	96	771.0	187	3	4	0	.979	2.218	1.743	0	0	0
John Moses	OF	82	42	438.0	123	1	0	0	1.000	2.548	1.512	0	0	0
Mark Davidson	OF	91	32	320.7	103	3	5	1	.955	2.975	1.165	0	0	0
Tom Brunansky	OF	13	13	113.0	19	0	3	0	.864	1.513	1.462	0	0	0
John Christensen	OF	17	10	84.3	20	0	0	0	1.000	2.134	1.176	0	0	0
Eric Bullock	OF	4	2	17.0	7	0	1	0	.875	3.706	1.750	0	0	0
Greg Gagne	OF	2	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Frank Viola	P	35	35	255.3	5	30	2	1	.946	1.234	1.000	0	0	0
Bert Blyleven	P	33	33	207.3	12	22	1	3	.971	1.476	1.030	0	0	0
Allan Anderson	P	30	30	202.3	9	34	2	3	.956	1.913	1.433	0	0	0
Charlie Lea	P	24	23	130.0	12	12	0	1	1.000	1.662	1.000	0	0	0
Freddie Toliver	P	21	19	114.7	1	19	2	2	.909	1.570	.952	0	0	0
Juan Berenguer	P	57	1	100.0	7	10	0	1	1.000	1.530	.298	0	0	0
Les Straker	P	16	14	82.7	9	13	1	1	.957	2.395	1.375	0	0	0
Keith Atherton	P	49	0	74.0	3	9	1	0	.923	1.459	.245	0	0	0
Jeff Reardon	P	63	0	73.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	.370	.048	0	0	0
Mark Portugal	P	26	0	57.7	2	1	1	0	.750	.468	.115	0	0	0
Roy Smith	P	9	4	37.0	3	2	0	0	1.000	1.216	.556	0	0	0
German Gonzalez	P	16	0	21.3	3	2	0	0	1.000	2.109	.313	0	0	0
Jim Winn	P	9	0	21.0	2	4	1	0	.857	2.571	.667	0	0	0
Karl Best	P	11	0	12.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.750	.091	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	P	5	2	11.7	2	3	0	1	1.000	3.857	1.000	0	0	0
Dan Schatzeder	P	10	0	10.3	2	1	0	0	1.000	2.613	.300	0	0	0
Steve Carlton	P	4	1	9.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.931	.250	0	0	0
Mike Mason	P	5	0	6.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Tippy Martinez	P	3	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dan Gladden	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Greg Gagne	SS	146	134	1178.7	200	373	18	79	.970	4.375	3.925	0	0	0
Al Newman	SS	28	16	138.0	31	44	1	12	.987	4.891	2.679	0	0	0
Steve Lombardozzi	SS	12	10	81.0	12	23	0	6	1.000	3.889	2.917	0	0	0
Doug Baker	SS	9	2	28.0	5	6	0	3	1.000	3.536	1.222	0	0	0
Tom Herr	SS	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Gary Gaetti	SS	2	0	2.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1981	1458	12885.0	4295	1500	84	419	.986	4.048	2.925	13	112	41	26.8

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