1998 Minnesota Twins Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 70-92
Finished 4th in the AL's Central Division
Attendance: 1,165,976, Avg. 14,395
Ballpark: Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome
Manager: Tom Kelly (70-92)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota

1998 Minnesota Twins Roster
1998 Minnesota Twins Results

The Minnesota Twins of the American League ended the 1998 season with a record of 70 wins and 92 losses, finishing fourth in the AL's Central Division.

The Twins scored 734 runs and conceded 818 runs. Matt Lawton led Minnesota with 21 home runs, while Ron Coomer walloped 20 or more, too. Matt Lawton drove in 77 runs. Todd Walker paced all regular hitters by hitting .316. Brad Radke topped the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 4.30 ERA, tops among 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
Brad Radke	12	14	.462	4.30	32	32	0	5	1	0	213.7	238	109	102	23	43	1	146	9	1	3	904
Eric Milton	8	14	.364	5.64	32	32	0	1	0	0	172.3	195	113	108	25	70	0	107	2	0	1	772
Dan Serafini	7	4	.636	6.48	28	9	3	0	0	0	75.0	95	58	54	10	29	1	46	1	0	2	345
Bob Tewksbury	7	13	.350	4.79	26	25	0	1	0	0	148.3	174	82	79	19	20	1	60	6	0	5	635
LaTroy Hawkins	7	14	.333	5.25	33	33	0	0	0	0	190.3	227	126	111	27	61	1	105	5	2	10	840
Mike Trombley	6	5	.545	3.63	77	1	17	0	0	1	96.7	90	41	39	16	41	3	89	5	1	6	413
Mike Morgan	4	2	.667	3.49	18	17	0	0	0	0	98.0	108	41	38	13	24	1	50	7	0	1	412
Hector Carrasco	4	2	.667	4.38	63	0	20	0	0	1	61.7	75	30	30	4	31	1	46	1	0	8	287
Frankie Rodriguez	4	6	.400	6.56	20	11	4	0	0	0	70.0	88	58	51	6	30	0	62	3	1	6	329
Rick Aguilera	4	9	.308	4.24	68	0	64	0	0	38	74.3	75	35	35	8	15	1	57	1	0	1	307
Eddie Guardado	3	1	.750	4.52	79	0	12	0	0	0	65.7	66	34	33	10	28	6	53	0	0	2	286
Greg Swindell	3	3	.500	3.66	52	0	12	0	0	2	66.3	67	27	27	10	18	2	45	3	0	3	281
Benj Sampson	1	0	1.000	1.56	5	2	1	0	0	0	17.3	10	3	3	0	6	0	16	1	0	2	67
Todd Ritchie	0	0		5.63	15	0	7	0	0	0	24.0	30	17	15	1	9	0	21	0	0	3	113
Travis Baptist	0	1	.000	5.67	13	0	4	0	0	0	27.0	34	18	17	5	11	1	11	0	0	0	123
Travis Miller	0	2	.000	3.86	14	0	2	0	0	0	23.3	25	10	10	0	11	1	23	0	0	2	104
Dan Naulty	0	2	.000	4.94	19	0	9	0	0	0	23.7	25	16	13	3	10	1	15	0	0	0	104
Totals	70	92	.432	4.76	594	162	155	7	1	42	1447.7	1622	818	765	180	457	21	952	44	5	55	6322

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
Todd Walker	143	581	528	85	167	41	3	12	62	19	7	47	65	.316	.372	.473	.845	250	13	2	0	4	9
Matt Lawton	152	662	557	91	155	36	6	21	77	16	8	86	64	.278	.387	.478	.864	266	10	15	0	4	6
Ron Coomer	137	555	529	54	146	22	1	15	72	2	2	18	72	.276	.295	.406	.702	215	22	0	0	8	1
Paul Molitor	126	559	502	75	141	29	5	4	69	9	2	45	41	.281	.335	.382	.718	192	19	1	1	10	5
Pat Meares	149	581	543	56	141	26	3	9	70	7	4	24	86	.260	.296	.368	.664	200	12	6	3	5	1
Otis Nixon	110	500	448	71	133	6	6	1	20	37	7	44	56	.297	.361	.344	.705	154	14	2	4	2	0
Marty Cordova	119	499	438	52	111	20	2	10	69	3	6	50	103	.253	.333	.377	.709	165	14	5	0	6	3
Terry Steinbach	124	465	422	45	102	25	2	14	54	0	1	38	89	.242	.310	.410	.720	173	16	4	0	1	0
Brent Gates	107	377	333	31	83	15	0	3	42	3	3	36	46	.249	.324	.321	.645	107	6	2	3	3	0
David Ortiz	86	326	278	47	77	20	0	9	46	1	0	39	72	.277	.371	.446	.817	124	8	5	0	4	3
Alex Ochoa	94	260	249	35	64	14	2	2	25	6	3	10	35	.257	.288	.353	.642	88	7	1	0	0	0
Orlando Merced	63	223	204	22	59	12	0	5	33	1	4	17	29	.289	.345	.422	.767	86	4	1	0	1	3
Denny Hocking	110	219	198	32	40	6	1	3	15	2	1	16	44	.202	.259	.288	.547	57	2	0	3	2	1
Javier Valentin	55	177	162	11	32	7	1	3	18	0	0	11	30	.198	.247	.309	.556	50	7	0	3	1	1
Chris Latham	34	108	94	14	15	1	0	1	5	4	2	13	36	.160	.262	.202	.464	19	0	0	1	0	0
Jon Shave	19	43	40	7	10	3	0	1	5	1	2	3	10	.250	.302	.400	.702	16	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Mientkiewicz	8	29	25	1	5	1	0	0	2	1	1	4	3	.200	.310	.240	.550	6	0	0	0	0	0
Eric Milton	32	9	9	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.444	.444	.444	.889	4	0	0	0	0	0
Torii Hunter	6	19	17	0	4	1	0	0	2	0	1	2	6	.235	.316	.294	.610	5	1	0	0	0	0
Corey Koskie	11	31	29	2	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	10	.138	.194	.241	.435	7	0	0	0	0	0
A. J. Pierzynski	7	13	10	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.300	.385	.300	.685	3	0	1	0	1	0
Scott Stahoviak	9	19	19	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	7	.105	.105	.263	.368	5	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Morgan	18	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
LaTroy Hawkins	33	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brad Radke	32	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Tewksbury	26	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Serafini	28	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Travis Baptist	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Trombley	77	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Greg Swindell	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Hector Carrasco	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Eddie Guardado	79	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Naulty	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Benj Sampson	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Frankie Rodriguez	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Todd Ritchie	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Travis Miller	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Aguilera	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2263	6262	5641	734	1499	285	32	115	691	112	54	506	915	.266	.328	.389	.717	2193	155	45	18	52	33

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
David Ortiz	1B	70	69	586.7	503	46	6	51	.989	8.422	7.843	0	0	0
Ron Coomer	1B	54	39	388.7	371	34	1	32	.998	9.378	7.500	0	0	0
Orlando Merced	1B	38	34	294.3	299	21	6	32	.982	9.785	8.421	0	0	0
Paul Molitor	1B	9	9	74.0	79	7	0	4	1.000	1.459	9.556	0	0	0
Doug Mientkiewicz	1B	8	7	64.0	61	3	0	3	1.000	9.000	8.000	0	0	0
Scott Stahoviak	1B	4	4	36.0	35	4	1	4	.975	9.750	9.750	0	0	0
Denny Hocking	1B	2	0	2.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	13.500	1.500	0	0	0
Jon Shave	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Brent Gates	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	1	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Todd Walker	2B	140	139	1173.0	219	363	13	72	.978	4.465	4.157	0	0	0
Denny Hocking	2B	47	10	143.7	38	46	0	9	1.000	5.262	1.787	0	0	0
Brent Gates	2B	21	13	131.0	23	43	2	8	.971	4.534	3.143	0	0	0
Ron Coomer	3B	75	75	627.7	56	116	5	9	.972	2.466	2.293	0	0	0
Brent Gates	3B	77	66	608.3	59	113	7	5	.961	2.545	2.234	0	0	0
Jon Shave	3B	15	10	94.0	6	20	0	2	1.000	2.489	1.733	0	0	0
Corey Koskie	3B	10	7	71.0	6	10	1	1	.941	2.028	1.600	0	0	0
Denny Hocking	3B	11	4	46.7	1	11	0	1	1.000	2.314	1.091	0	0	0
Terry Steinbach	C	119	116	1007.0	665	52	7	3	.990	6.408	6.025	4	63	34	35.1
Javier Valentin	C	53	42	403.7	281	17	5	0	.983	6.644	5.623	7	34	10	22.7
A. J. Pierzynski	C	6	4	37.0	33	2	0	1	1.000	8.514	5.833	0	4	1	20.0
Matt Lawton	OF	151	147	1320.0	398	12	4	5	.990	2.795	2.715	0	0	0
Marty Cordova	OF	115	113	982.0	257	5	6	1	.978	2.401	2.278	0	0	0
Otis Nixon	OF	108	106	922.7	278	4	3	0	.989	2.751	2.611	0	0	0
Alex Ochoa	OF	74	59	549.7	117	8	4	0	.969	2.047	1.689	0	0	0
Chris Latham	OF	32	25	241.0	69	1	2	0	.972	2.614	2.188	0	0	0
Denny Hocking	OF	24	18	168.7	47	2	1	1	.980	2.615	2.042	0	0	0
Orlando Merced	OF	13	12	101.0	25	2	0	1	1.000	2.406	2.077	0	0	0
Torii Hunter	OF	6	5	45.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	1.600	1.333	0	0	0
Ron Coomer	OF	3	1	10.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.900	.333	0	0	0
Scott Stahoviak	OF	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Brad Radke	P	32	32	213.7	12	34	1	1	.979	1.938	1.438	0	0	0
LaTroy Hawkins	P	33	33	190.3	17	29	0	5	1.000	2.175	1.394	0	0	0
Eric Milton	P	32	32	172.3	8	20	0	1	1.000	1.462	.875	0	0	0
Bob Tewksbury	P	26	25	148.3	12	31	2	3	.956	2.609	1.654	0	0	0
Mike Morgan	P	18	17	98.0	13	16	1	1	.967	2.663	1.611	0	0	0
Mike Trombley	P	77	1	96.7	4	9	0	0	1.000	1.210	.169	0	0	0
Dan Serafini	P	28	9	75.0	1	8	0	1	1.000	1.080	.321	0	0	0
Rick Aguilera	P	68	0	74.3	3	9	0	2	1.000	1.453	.176	0	0	0
Frankie Rodriguez	P	20	11	70.0	8	9	2	0	.895	2.186	.850	0	0	0
Greg Swindell	P	52	0	66.3	8	6	0	0	1.000	1.899	.269	0	0	0
Eddie Guardado	P	79	0	65.7	6	5	0	0	1.000	1.508	.139	0	0	0
Hector Carrasco	P	63	0	61.7	9	6	0	0	1.000	2.189	.238	0	0	0
Travis Baptist	P	13	0	27.0	6	2	0	0	1.000	2.667	.615	0	0	0
Todd Ritchie	P	15	0	24.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dan Naulty	P	19	0	23.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	.380	.053	0	0	0
Travis Miller	P	14	0	23.3	1	2	1	0	.750	1.157	.214	0	0	0
Benj Sampson	P	5	2	17.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.519	.200	0	0	0
Pat Meares	SS	149	145	1270.0	263	412	24	92	.966	4.783	4.530	0	0	0
Denny Hocking	SS	28	17	174.0	29	43	3	7	.960	3.724	2.571	0	0	0
Brent Gates	SS	1	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	6.000	2.000	0	0	0
Jon Shave	SS	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		2061	1458	13029.0	4343	1585	108	359	.982	4.095	2.876	11	101	45	30.8

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