2017 Minnesota Twins

85-77 • .525 Win% • 2nd in AL C

The 2017 Minnesota Twins went 85-77 (.525) finishing 2nd in the AL C division. The club scored 815 runs, allowed 788, and played home games at Target Field. Team leaders included Brian Dozier (34 HR, 93 RBI) and Ervin Santana (16-8, 3.28 ERA).

W (Wins):
Games credited to a pitcher whose team took a lead it never surrendered while he was the pitcher of record.
L (Losses):
Games charged to the pitcher of record when the opposing team took a lead it never surrendered.
RS (Runs Scored (team)):
Total runs a team scored across the season.
RA (Runs Allowed):
Total runs a team allowed across the season.

Data updated

📊 Season Record

85 Wins
77 Losses
.525 Win %
2nd Rank
815 R 788 RA
Diff +27

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⚡ Quick Stats

815 Runs Scored
788 Runs Allowed
+27 Run Diff
2,051K Attendance

📈 vs. 2017 AL Average

Batting Avg .259 2% above the 2017 league average (.255)
OBP .334 3% above the 2017 league average (.323)
SLG .433 1% above the 2017 league average (.428)
Team ERA 4.59 5% worse than the 2017 league average (4.37)
Runs Scored 815 7% above the 2017 league average (763 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumTarget Field
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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 2,051,279
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Avg per Game 25,324

⚾ Batting Leaders

Team HR Leaders — 2017

Batting Avg

1 Joe Mauer 0.305 2 Eddie Rosario 0.290 3 Brian Dozier 0.271 4 Ehire Adrianza 0.265 5 Miguel Sano 0.264

Home Runs

1 Brian Dozier 34 2 Miguel Sano 28 3 Eddie Rosario 27 4 Eduardo Escobar 21 5 Max Kepler 19

RBI

1 Brian Dozier 93 2 Eddie Rosario 78 3 Miguel Sano 77 4 Jorge Polanco 74 5 Eduardo Escobar 73
2017 Minnesota Twins — RBI
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Brian Dozier 152 617 106 167 30 4 34 93 78 141 16 0.271
Eddie Rosario 151 542 79 157 33 2 27 78 35 106 9 0.290
Joe Mauer 141 525 69 160 36 1 7 71 66 83 2 0.305
Max Kepler 147 511 67 124 32 2 19 69 47 114 6 0.243
Jorge Polanco 133 488 60 125 30 3 13 74 41 78 13 0.256
Byron Buxton 140 462 69 117 14 6 16 51 38 150 29 0.253
Eduardo Escobar 129 457 62 116 16 5 21 73 33 98 5 0.254
Miguel Sano 114 424 75 112 15 2 28 77 54 173 0 0.264
Robbie Grossman 119 382 62 94 22 1 9 45 67 79 3 0.246
Jason Castro 110 356 49 86 22 0 10 47 45 108 0 0.242
Kennys Vargas 78 241 33 61 13 0 11 41 20 77 0 0.253
Chris Gimenez 77 186 28 41 9 0 7 16 33 60 1 0.220
Ehire Adrianza 70 162 30 43 9 2 2 24 16 25 8 0.265
Zach Granite 40 93 14 22 2 0 1 13 12 9 2 0.237
Mitch Garver 23 46 5 9 1 3 0 3 6 15 0 0.196
Danny Santana 13 25 3 5 1 0 1 1 1 8 1 0.200
Niko Goodrum 11 17 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 10 0 0.059
Ervin Santana 33 10 3 2 1 0 0 5 0 3 0 0.200
Jose Berrios 26 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.200
Bartolo Colon 15 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Dietrich Enns 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.500
Nik Turley 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Matt Belisle 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Buddy Boshers 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Craig Breslow 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Alan Busenitz 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
John Curtiss 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Tyler Duffey 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jaime Garcia 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Dillon Gee 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Kyle Gibson 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Justin Haley 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Chris Heston 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Trevor Hildenberger 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Phil Hughes 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Felix Jorge 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Brandon Kintzler 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Adalberto Mejia 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Tim Melville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Gabriel Moya 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Glen Perkins 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ryan Pressly 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Taylor Rogers 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Randy Rosario 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Drew Rucinski 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Hector Santiago 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Aaron Slegers 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Nick Tepesch 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Michael Tonkin 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jason Wheeler 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Adam Wilk 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Alex Wimmers 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

Team K Leaders — 2017

ERA

1 Alan Busenitz 1.99 2 Brandon Kintzler 2.78 3 Taylor Rogers 3.07 4 Trevor Hildenberger 3.21 5 Dillon Gee 3.22

Wins

1 Ervin Santana 16 2 Jose Berrios 14 3 Kyle Gibson 12 4 Taylor Rogers 7 5 Bartolo Colon 5

Strikeouts

1 Ervin Santana 167 2 Jose Berrios 139 3 Kyle Gibson 121 4 Adalberto Mejia 85 5 Tyler Duffey 67
2017 Minnesota Twins — Strikeouts
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Ervin Santana 16 8 3.28 33 33 0 211.1 177 77 61 167
Kyle Gibson 12 10 5.07 29 29 0 158.0 182 89 60 121
Jose Berrios 14 8 3.89 26 25 0 145.2 131 63 48 139
Adalberto Mejia 4 7 4.50 21 21 0 98.0 110 49 44 85
Bartolo Colon 5 6 5.18 15 15 0 80.0 100 46 15 47
Tyler Duffey 2 3 4.94 56 0 1 71.0 79 39 18 67
Hector Santiago 4 8 5.63 15 14 0 70.1 70 44 31 51
Ryan Pressly 2 3 4.70 57 0 0 61.1 52 32 19 61
Matt Belisle 2 2 4.03 62 0 9 60.1 48 27 22 54
Taylor Rogers 7 3 3.07 69 0 0 55.2 52 19 21 49
Phil Hughes 4 3 5.87 14 9 0 53.2 72 35 13 38
Brandon Kintzler 2 2 2.78 45 0 28 45.1 41 14 11 27
Trevor Hildenberger 3 3 3.21 37 0 1 42.0 38 15 6 44
Dillon Gee 3 2 3.22 14 3 1 36.1 37 13 9 31
Buddy Boshers 1 0 4.89 38 0 0 35.0 37 19 10 28
Alan Busenitz 1 1 1.99 28 0 0 31.2 22 7 9 23
Craig Breslow 1 1 5.23 30 0 0 31.0 38 18 12 18
Michael Tonkin 0 1 5.14 16 0 0 21.0 22 12 12 24
Justin Haley 0 0 6.00 10 0 1 18.0 22 12 6 14
Nik Turley 0 2 11.21 10 3 0 17.2 30 22 8 13
Aaron Slegers 0 1 6.46 4 3 0 15.1 12 11 6 9
Adam Wilk 0 1 7.84 3 1 0 10.1 16 9 8 6
John Curtiss 0 0 8.31 9 0 0 8.2 9 8 2 10
Felix Jorge 1 0 10.57 2 2 0 7.2 14 9 2 4
Alex Wimmers 0 0 4.91 6 0 0 7.1 8 4 8 7
Jaime Garcia 1 0 4.05 1 1 0 6.2 8 3 3 7
Gabriel Moya 0 0 4.26 7 0 1 6.1 5 3 2 5
Glen Perkins 0 0 9.53 8 0 0 5.2 8 6 5 2
Chris Gimenez 0 0 7.20 6 0 0 5.0 7 4 0 0
Drew Rucinski 0 0 10.38 2 0 0 4.1 10 5 2 5
Dietrich Enns 0 0 6.75 2 1 0 4.0 7 3 1 2
Tim Melville 0 1 13.50 1 1 0 3.1 4 5 3 4
Jason Wheeler 0 0 9.00 2 0 0 3.0 6 3 4 0
Randy Rosario 0 0 30.86 2 0 0 2.1 7 8 0 2
Nick Tepesch 0 1 5.40 1 1 0 1.2 5 1 2 2
Chris Heston 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 1.0 1 0 0 0

🏆 Postseason Results

AL Wild Card
Lost to NYA 1-0

👥 Roster (52)

Ehire Adrianza Matt Belisle Jose Berrios Buddy Boshers Craig Breslow Alan Busenitz Byron Buxton Jason Castro Bartolo Colon John Curtiss Brian Dozier Tyler Duffey +40 more

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The 2017 Minnesota Twins in brief

A 85-77 record (.525) put the 2017 Minnesota Twins 2nd in the AL Central. This was a year in which the Minnesota Twins earned a wild-card berth. With 815 runs scored and 788 given up, the 2017 differential was +27. Against a league average of .255, the 2017 Minnesota Twins batted .259. The staff ERA of 4.59 was 5% worse than the league average of 4.37.

League clubs averaged 763 runs that year, so the Minnesota Twins scored 7% more. The home park, Target Field, recorded 2,051,279 in attendance, about 25,324 a game. For power, Brian Dozier led the way with 34 homers. Ervin Santana led the pitchers with 16 wins. Brandon Kintzler saved 28 games. The AL Wild Card round ended in a loss against NYA 1-0.

Frequently Asked Questions about the 2017 Minnesota Twins

What was the 2017 Minnesota Twins record?
The 2017 Minnesota Twins finished 85-77 (.525 win pct).
Who led the 2017 Minnesota Twins in home runs?
Brian Dozier led the 2017 Minnesota Twins with 34 home runs.
What was the 2017 Minnesota Twins team ERA?
The 2017 Minnesota Twins posted a team ERA of 4.59.
Did the 2017 Minnesota Twins win the World Series?
No. The 2017 Minnesota Twins did not win the World Series.
Where did the 2017 Minnesota Twins play?
The 2017 Minnesota Twins played home games at Target Field.
Who led the 2017 Minnesota Twins in hitting and pitching?
Team leaders were Brian Dozier (34 HR, 93 RBI) and Ervin Santana (16-8, 3.28 ERA).
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