2009 Minnesota Twins Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 87-76
Finished 1st in the AL's Central Division
Attendance: 2,416,237, Avg. 29,466
Ballpark: Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome
Won Division
American League Division Series - Lost to New York Yankees 3-0
Manager: Ron Gardenhire (87-76)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota

2009 Minnesota Twins Roster
2009 Minnesota Twins Results

The Minnesota Twins of the American League ended the 2009 season with a record of 87 wins and 76 losses, finishing first in the AL's Central Division.

The Twins plated 817 runs and yielded 765 runs. Michael Cuddyer walloped 32 home runs for Minnesota, while Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, Joe Crede and Jason Kubel each swatted 20 or more, too. Jason Kubel drove in 103 runs. Joe Mauer topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .365. Scott Baker led the team with 15 wins, and Nick Blackburn registered a 4.03 earned run average, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Ron Gardenhire coached the team. The 2009 Minnesota Twins qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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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
Scott Baker	15	9	.625	4.37	33	33	0	1	1	0	200.0	190	99	97	28	48	1	162	4	0	4	828
Nick Blackburn	11	11	.500	4.03	33	33	0	3	0	0	205.7	240	103	92	25	41	1	98	3	0	2	882
Kevin Slowey	10	3	.769	4.86	16	16	0	0	0	0	90.7	113	50	49	15	15	1	75	5	0	3	394
Jesse Crain	7	4	.636	4.70	56	0	15	0	0	0	51.7	48	28	27	3	27	3	43	5	1	1	230
Glen Perkins	6	7	.462	5.89	18	17	1	0	0	0	96.3	120	64	63	13	23	0	45	1	1	2	423
Jon Rauch	5	1	.833	1.72	17	0	2	0	0	0	15.7	13	3	3	1	6	1	14	1	0	0	64
Matt Guerrier	5	1	.833	2.36	79	0	15	0	0	1	76.3	58	23	20	10	16	2	47	4	0	6	304
Brian Duensing	5	2	.714	3.64	24	9	3	0	0	0	84.0	84	37	34	7	31	1	53	3	0	1	359
Carl Pavano	5	4	.556	4.64	12	12	0	0	0	0	73.7	85	39	38	7	16	1	59	3	0	1	320
Francisco Liriano	5	13	.278	5.80	29	24	2	0	0	0	136.7	147	93	88	21	65	0	122	6	1	5	609
Anthony Swarzak	3	7	.300	6.25	12	12	0	0	0	0	59.0	76	43	41	12	20	0	34	2	0	0	268
Joe Nathan	2	2	.500	2.10	70	0	62	0	0	47	68.7	42	16	16	7	22	1	89	2	0	4	271
Jose Mijares	2	2	.500	2.34	71	0	12	0	0	0	61.7	50	17	16	7	23	1	55	2	0	0	253
Ron Mahay	1	0	1.000	2.00	16	0	0	0	0	0	9.0	7	3	2	1	3	1	8	2	0	1	39
R. A. Dickey	1	1	.500	4.62	35	1	13	0	0	0	64.3	74	34	33	8	30	1	42	4	0	4	293
Bobby Keppel	1	1	.500	4.83	37	0	8	0	0	0	54.0	63	30	29	4	21	2	32	5	0	2	242
Jeff Manship	1	1	.500	5.68	11	5	1	0	0	0	31.7	39	21	20	4	15	0	21	1	0	2	146
Luis Ayala	1	2	.333	4.18	28	0	11	0	0	0	32.3	38	18	15	4	8	0	21	3	0	0	138
Craig Breslow	1	2	.333	6.28	17	0	5	0	0	0	14.3	11	11	10	3	11	0	11	1	0	3	64
Philip Humber	0	0		8.00	8	0	3	0	0	0	9.0	17	8	8	1	9	2	9	0	0	1	50
Armando Gabino	0	0		17.18	2	1	0	0	0	0	3.7	9	7	7	1	5	0	2	0	0	0	25
Juan Morillo	0	0		22.50	3	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	3	5	5	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	12
Kevin Mulvey	0	0		27.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.3	6	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10
Sean Henn	0	3	.000	7.15	14	0	3	0	0	0	11.3	9	9	9	2	8	1	9	1	0	0	50
Totals	87	76	.534	4.50	643	163	159	4	1	48	1453.0	1542	765	726	185	466	20	1052	58	3	43	6274

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
Joe Mauer	138	606	523	94	191	30	1	28	96	4	1	76	63	.365	.444	.587	1.031	307	13	2	0	5	14
Denard Span	145	676	578	97	180	16	10	8	68	23	10	70	89	.311	.392	.415	.807	240	7	10	12	6	3
Michael Cuddyer	153	650	588	93	162	34	7	32	94	6	1	54	118	.276	.342	.520	.862	306	22	6	0	2	3
Jason Kubel	146	578	514	73	154	35	2	28	103	1	1	56	106	.300	.369	.539	.907	277	13	3	0	5	9
Justin Morneau	135	590	508	85	139	31	1	30	100	0	0	72	86	.274	.363	.516	.878	262	12	3	0	7	12
Delmon Young	108	416	395	50	112	16	2	12	60	2	5	12	92	.284	.308	.425	.733	168	17	4	0	5	1
Brendan Harris	123	453	414	44	108	22	1	6	37	0	2	29	78	.261	.310	.362	.672	150	16	3	1	6	0
Nick Punto	125	440	359	56	82	15	1	1	38	16	3	61	70	.228	.337	.284	.621	102	7	1	13	6	1
Joe Crede	90	367	333	42	75	16	1	15	48	0	0	29	56	.225	.289	.414	.703	138	6	2	0	3	1
Carlos Gomez	137	349	315	51	72	15	5	3	28	14	7	22	72	.229	.287	.337	.623	106	1	4	7	1	0
Orlando Cabrera	59	260	242	42	70	13	3	5	36	2	0	11	32	.289	.313	.430	.742	104	9	0	1	6	0
Matt Tolbert	71	231	198	28	46	7	1	2	19	6	2	21	37	.232	.303	.308	.611	61	1	0	10	2	1
Alexi Casilla	80	256	228	25	46	7	3	0	17	11	0	22	36	.202	.280	.259	.538	59	6	3	2	1	0
Jose Morales	54	134	119	14	37	6	0	0	7	0	0	14	22	.311	.381	.361	.742	43	4	0	0	1	1
Mike Redmond	45	147	135	9	32	5	1	0	7	0	0	11	19	.237	.299	.289	.588	39	8	1	0	0	0
Brian Buscher	61	164	136	14	32	3	1	2	12	0	0	24	35	.235	.360	.316	.676	43	3	3	0	1	0
Justin Huber	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	1	0	0	0	0
Anthony Swarzak	12	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kevin Slowey	16	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0	0
Francisco Liriano	29	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Glen Perkins	18	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Scott Baker	33	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nick Blackburn	33	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Keppel	37	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Pridie	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
R. A. Dickey	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jon Rauch	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Luis Ayala	28	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Jesse Crain	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Craig Breslow	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Duensing	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Armando Gabino	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Nathan	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Mahay	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Manship	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Philip Humber	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Mijares	71	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Sean Henn	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Juan Morillo	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Guerrier	79	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Kevin Mulvey	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Carl Pavano	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2315	6346	5608	817	1539	271	40	172	770	85	32	585	1021	.274	.345	.429	.774	2406	147	45	51	57	46

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Justin Morneau	1B	123	123	1071.7	952	90	3	88	.997	8.751	8.472	0	0	0
Michael Cuddyer	1B	34	34	296.0	278	14	4	27	.986	8.878	8.588	0	0	0
Brian Buscher	1B	13	6	72.3	69	6	0	13	1.000	9.332	5.769	0	0	0
Brendan Harris	1B	3	0	9.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	11.000	3.667	0	0	0
Justin Huber	1B	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Matt Tolbert	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Alexi Casilla	2B	72	64	571.3	141	170	5	35	.984	4.899	4.319	0	0	0
Nick Punto	2B	63	58	510.3	119	150	0	36	1.000	4.744	4.270	0	0	0
Matt Tolbert	2B	36	31	285.0	74	110	2	29	.989	5.811	5.111	0	0	0
Brendan Harris	2B	11	10	85.3	19	24	0	2	1.000	4.535	3.909	0	0	0
Michael Cuddyer	2B	1	0	1.0	1	1	0	1	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Joe Crede	3B	84	84	728.0	60	171	4	18	.983	2.856	2.750	0	0	0
Brendan Harris	3B	44	34	312.0	20	57	6	1	.928	2.221	1.750	0	0	0
Brian Buscher	3B	25	22	195.7	19	31	1	4	.980	2.300	2.000	0	0	0
Matt Tolbert	3B	27	20	190.3	11	43	2	5	.964	2.553	2.000	0	0	0
Nick Punto	3B	5	3	27.0	3	6	0	1	1.000	3.000	1.800	0	0	0
Joe Mauer	C	109	105	939.0	724	31	3	3	.996	7.236	6.927	9	54	19	26.0
Mike Redmond	C	44	39	330.7	228	8	0	2	1.000	6.423	5.364	2	35	5	12.5
Jose Morales	C	29	19	183.3	135	9	3	0	.980	7.069	4.966	5	18	8	30.8
Denard Span	OF	145	143	1267.3	350	6	5	2	.986	2.528	2.455	0	0	0
Michael Cuddyer	OF	117	114	1008.7	209	5	2	0	.991	1.909	1.829	0	0	0
Carlos Gomez	OF	132	86	848.7	297	3	1	0	.997	3.181	2.273	0	0	0
Delmon Young	OF	98	93	806.7	175	4	5	1	.973	1.997	1.827	0	0	0
Jason Kubel	OF	58	53	427.7	103	1	0	0	1.000	2.189	1.793	0	0	0
Nick Blackburn	P	33	33	205.7	25	23	1	2	.980	2.100	1.455	0	0	0
Scott Baker	P	33	33	200.0	9	17	0	0	1.000	1.170	.788	0	0	0
Francisco Liriano	P	29	24	136.7	1	15	0	1	1.000	1.054	.552	0	0	0
Glen Perkins	P	18	17	96.3	3	8	1	1	.917	1.028	.611	0	0	0
Kevin Slowey	P	16	16	90.7	4	6	0	0	1.000	.993	.625	0	0	0
Brian Duensing	P	24	9	84.0	6	17	0	2	1.000	2.464	.958	0	0	0
Matt Guerrier	P	79	0	76.3	8	12	0	1	1.000	2.358	.253	0	0	0
Carl Pavano	P	12	12	73.7	5	11	0	0	1.000	1.955	1.333	0	0	0
Joe Nathan	P	70	0	68.7	5	6	1	1	.917	1.442	.157	0	0	0
R. A. Dickey	P	35	1	64.3	6	8	1	0	.933	1.959	.400	0	0	0
Jose Mijares	P	71	0	61.7	2	6	0	0	1.000	1.168	.113	0	0	0
Anthony Swarzak	P	12	12	59.0	2	5	0	0	1.000	1.068	.583	0	0	0
Bobby Keppel	P	37	0	54.0	4	7	0	0	1.000	1.833	.297	0	0	0
Jesse Crain	P	56	0	51.7	6	8	0	1	1.000	2.439	.250	0	0	0
Luis Ayala	P	28	0	32.3	2	4	0	0	1.000	1.670	.214	0	0	0
Jeff Manship	P	11	5	31.7	3	2	0	0	1.000	1.421	.455	0	0	0
Jon Rauch	P	17	0	15.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.149	.118	0	0	0
Craig Breslow	P	17	0	14.3	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.884	.176	0	0	0
Sean Henn	P	14	0	11.3	1	1	0	1	1.000	1.588	.143	0	0	0
Ron Mahay	P	16	0	9.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Philip Humber	P	8	0	9.0	0	1	1	0	.500	1.000	.125	0	0	0
Armando Gabino	P	2	1	3.7	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Juan Morillo	P	3	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Kevin Mulvey	P	2	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Orlando Cabrera	SS	57	57	501.0	102	155	11	35	.959	4.617	4.509	0	0	0
Nick Punto	SS	58	56	491.0	100	153	7	29	.973	4.637	4.362	0	0	0
Brendan Harris	SS	56	50	451.0	64	150	6	25	.973	4.271	3.821	0	0	0
Matt Tolbert	SS	3	0	8.0	2	4	0	2	1.000	6.750	2.000	0	0	0
Alexi Casilla	SS	2	0	2.0	0	1	0	1	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
Totals		2094	1467	13077.0	4359	1565	76	371	.987	4.077	2.829	16	107	32	23.0

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	BF
Matt Guerrier	ALDS1	0		0.00	2	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	6
Nick Blackburn	ALDS1	0		1.59	1	1	0	5.7	3	1	1	0	2	0	3	0	22
Francisco Liriano	ALDS1	0		4.50	1	0	0	2.0	1	2	1	1	1	0	1	0	8
Ron Mahay	ALDS1	0		5.40	3	0	1	1.7	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	6
Jon Rauch	ALDS1	0		6.75	3	0	0	1.3	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	7
Joe Nathan	ALDS1	0		9.00	2	0	1	2.0	5	2	2	1	1	1	2	0	12
Carl Pavano	ALDS1	1	.000	2.57	1	1	0	7.0	5	2	2	2	0	0	9	0	25
Brian Duensing	ALDS1	1	.000	9.64	1	1	0	4.7	7	5	5	1	1	0	3	1	22
Jose Mijares	ALDS1	1	.000	13.50	2	0	1	0.7	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	3
Totals		3	.000	4.67	16	3	3	27.0	23	15	14	6	9	1	22	1	111

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP
Michael Cuddyer	ALDS1	3	14	14	0	6	0	0	1	0	0	2	.429	.429	.429	.857	6	0	0
Denard Span	ALDS1	3	15	15	1	6	1	0	1	1	0	2	.400	.400	.467	.867	7	1	0
Joe Mauer	ALDS1	3	14	12	1	5	1	0	1	0	2	4	.417	.500	.500	1.000	6	0	0
Nick Punto	ALDS1	3	12	9	0	4	1	0	1	0	3	1	.444	.583	.556	1.139	5	0	0
Brendan Harris	ALDS1	3	12	12	1	3	0	1	1	0	0	3	.250	.250	.417	.667	5	0	0
Orlando Cabrera	ALDS1	3	15	13	1	2	0	0	0	1	2	3	.154	.267	.154	.421	2	0	0
Matt Tolbert	ALDS1	2	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	1
Delmon Young	ALDS1	3	14	12	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	5	.083	.214	.167	.381	2	0	1
Jason Kubel	ALDS1	3	14	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	9	.071	.071	.071	.143	1	0	0
Carlos Gomez	ALDS1	1	6	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	1
Jose Morales	ALDS1	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Nick Blackburn	ALDS1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Brian Duensing	ALDS1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Matt Guerrier	ALDS1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Francisco Liriano	ALDS1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Ron Mahay	ALDS1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Jose Mijares	ALDS1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Joe Nathan	ALDS1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Carl Pavano	ALDS1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Jon Rauch	ALDS1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Totals		44	125	113	6	29	4	1	5	3	9	34	.257	.328	.310	.638	35	1	3

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Michael Cuddyer	ALDS1	1B	3	3	27.0	31	4	1	2	.972	11.667	11.667
Nick Punto	ALDS1	2B	3	3	27.0	6	9	0	1	1.000	5.000	5.000
Brendan Harris	ALDS1	3B	2	1	14.0	2	3	0	1	1.000	3.214	2.500
Matt Tolbert	ALDS1	3B	2	2	13.0	0	2	0	1	1.000	1.385	1.000
Joe Mauer	ALDS1	C	3	3	27.0	21	2	0	0	1.000	7.667	7.667
Denard Span	ALDS1	CF	2	2	17.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.059	1.000
Carlos Gomez	ALDS1	CF	1	1	10.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.700	3.000
Delmon Young	ALDS1	LF	3	3	27.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000
Carl Pavano	ALDS1	P	1	1	7.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	1.000
Nick Blackburn	ALDS1	P	1	1	5.7	1	2	0	0	1.000	4.765	3.000
Brian Duensing	ALDS1	P	1	1	4.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.929	1.000
Joe Nathan	ALDS1	P	2	0	2.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000
Francisco Liriano	ALDS1	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Matt Guerrier	ALDS1	P	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Ron Mahay	ALDS1	P	3	0	1.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	5.400	.333
Jon Rauch	ALDS1	P	3	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Jose Mijares	ALDS1	P	2	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Jason Kubel	ALDS1	RF	2	2	17.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.059	1.000
Denard Span	ALDS1	RF	1	1	10.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.900	1.000
Orlando Cabrera	ALDS1	SS	3	3	27.0	3	11	0	1	1.000	4.667	4.667
Totals			41	27	243.0	81	33	2	6	.983	4.222	2.780

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