2021 Minnesota Twins

73-89 • .451 Win% • 5th in AL C

The 2021 Minnesota Twins went 73-89 (.451) finishing 5th in the AL C division. The club scored 729 runs, allowed 834, and played home games at Target Field. Team leaders included Jorge Polanco (33 HR, 98 RBI) and Michael Pineda (9-8, 3.62 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

73 Wins
89 Losses
.451 Win %
5th Rank
729 R 834 RA
Diff -105

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729 Runs Scored
834 Runs Allowed
-105 Run Diff
1,310K Attendance

📈 vs. 2021 AL Average

Batting Avg .241 2% below the 2021 league average (.245)
OBP .314 1% below the 2021 league average (.315)
SLG .423 2% above the 2021 league average (.414)
Team ERA 4.83 12% worse than the 2021 league average (4.32)
Runs Scored 729 2% below the 2021 league average (745 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumTarget Field
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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 1,310,199
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Avg per Game 16,175

⚾ Batting Leaders

Team HR Leaders — 2021

Batting Avg

1 Byron Buxton 0.306 2 Luis Arraez 0.294 3 Nelson Cruz 0.294 4 Jorge Polanco 0.269 5 Mitch Garver 0.256

Home Runs

1 Jorge Polanco 33 2 Miguel Sano 30 3 Josh Donaldson 26 4 Byron Buxton 19 5 Nelson Cruz 19

RBI

1 Jorge Polanco 98 2 Miguel Sano 75 3 Josh Donaldson 72 4 Max Kepler 54 5 Nelson Cruz 50
2021 Minnesota Twins — RBI
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Jorge Polanco 152 588 97 158 35 2 33 98 45 118 11 0.269
Miguel Sano 135 470 68 105 24 0 30 75 59 183 2 0.223
Josh Donaldson 135 457 73 113 26 0 26 72 74 114 0 0.247
Luis Arraez 121 428 58 126 17 6 2 42 43 48 2 0.294
Max Kepler 121 426 61 90 21 4 19 54 54 96 10 0.211
Andrelton Simmons 131 412 37 92 12 0 3 31 32 62 1 0.223
Nelson Cruz 85 296 44 87 13 1 19 50 35 63 3 0.294
Ryan Jeffers 85 267 28 53 10 1 14 35 22 108 0 0.199
Trevor Larnach 79 260 29 58 12 0 7 28 31 104 1 0.223
Byron Buxton 61 235 50 72 23 0 19 32 13 62 9 0.306
Alex Kirilloff 59 215 23 54 11 1 8 34 14 52 1 0.251
Willians Astudillo 73 208 17 49 8 0 7 21 3 12 0 0.236
Mitch Garver 68 207 29 53 15 0 13 34 31 71 1 0.256
Nick Gordon 73 200 19 48 9 1 4 23 12 55 10 0.240
Brent Rooker 58 189 25 38 10 0 9 16 15 70 0 0.201
Jake Cave 76 164 14 31 6 1 3 13 10 62 1 0.189
Rob Refsnyder 51 139 21 34 7 0 2 12 17 40 1 0.245
Kyle Garlick 36 99 17 23 8 0 5 10 6 32 1 0.232
Ben Rortvedt 39 89 8 15 1 0 3 7 6 29 0 0.169
Gilberto Celestino 23 59 7 8 3 0 2 3 3 14 0 0.136
JT Riddle 4 6 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.333
Griffin Jax 18 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Kenta Maeda 23 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.333
Michael Pineda 22 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Jose Berrios 20 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Bailey Ober 20 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.500
Joe Ryan 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Charlie Barnes 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Danny Coulombe 29 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Andrew Albers 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jorge Alcala 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Shaun Anderson 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Kyle Barraclough 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Travis Blankenhorn 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Beau Burrows 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Alex Colome 67 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Randy Dobnak 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Tyler Duffey 64 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Luke Farrell 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
John Gant 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Edgar Garcia 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ralph Garza 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ian Gibaut 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
J. A. Happ 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Derek Law 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Tzu-Wei Lin 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Juan Minaya 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jovani Moran 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Hansel Robles 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Taylor Rogers 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Matt Shoemaker 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Devin Smeltzer 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Cody Stashak 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Caleb Thielbar 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Lewis Thorpe 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Nick Vincent 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Brandon Waddell 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

Team K Leaders — 2021

ERA

1 Juan Minaya 2.48 2 Tyler Duffey 3.18 3 Caleb Thielbar 3.23 4 Taylor Rogers 3.35 5 Jose Berrios 3.48

Wins

1 Michael Pineda 9 2 Jose Berrios 7 3 Caleb Thielbar 7 4 Kenta Maeda 6 5 J. A. Happ 5

Strikeouts

1 Jose Berrios 126 2 Kenta Maeda 113 3 Bailey Ober 96 4 Michael Pineda 88 5 J. A. Happ 77
2021 Minnesota Twins — Strikeouts
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Jose Berrios 7 5 3.48 20 20 0 121.2 95 47 32 126
Michael Pineda 9 8 3.62 22 21 0 109.1 114 44 21 88
Kenta Maeda 6 5 4.66 21 21 0 106.1 106 55 32 113
J. A. Happ 5 6 6.77 19 19 0 98.1 125 74 31 77
Bailey Ober 3 3 4.19 20 20 0 92.1 92 43 19 96
Griffin Jax 4 5 6.37 18 14 0 82.0 82 58 29 65
Alex Colome 4 4 4.15 67 0 17 65.0 68 30 23 58
Caleb Thielbar 7 0 3.23 59 0 0 64.0 55 23 20 77
Tyler Duffey 3 3 3.18 64 0 3 62.1 48 22 28 61
Matt Shoemaker 3 8 8.06 16 11 0 60.1 73 54 27 40
Jorge Alcala 3 6 3.92 59 0 1 59.2 45 26 13 61
Randy Dobnak 1 7 7.64 14 6 1 50.2 66 43 12 27
Hansel Robles 3 4 4.91 45 0 10 44.0 37 24 24 43
Taylor Rogers 2 4 3.35 40 0 9 40.1 38 15 8 59
Juan Minaya 2 1 2.48 29 0 0 40.0 27 11 20 43
Charlie Barnes 0 3 5.92 9 8 0 38.0 46 25 16 20
Danny Coulombe 3 2 3.67 29 1 0 34.1 35 14 7 33
John Gant 1 5 5.61 14 7 0 33.2 31 21 15 36
Joe Ryan 2 1 4.05 5 5 0 26.2 16 12 5 30
Luke Farrell 1 1 4.74 20 1 0 24.2 28 13 13 25
Ralph Garza 0 2 3.26 18 0 1 19.1 13 7 7 15
Andrew Albers 1 2 7.58 5 3 0 19.0 24 16 9 12
Cody Stashak 0 0 6.89 15 0 0 15.2 16 12 10 26
Lewis Thorpe 0 2 4.70 5 4 0 15.1 14 8 7 6
Derek Law 0 0 4.20 9 0 0 15.0 16 7 8 14
Kyle Barraclough 2 0 5.54 10 0 0 13.0 12 8 8 18
Nick Vincent 1 0 0.71 7 0 0 12.2 6 1 5 9
Edgar Garcia 0 0 10.45 6 0 0 10.1 9 12 7 8
Beau Burrows 0 1 12.54 5 1 0 9.1 14 13 8 5
Shaun Anderson 0 0 9.35 4 0 0 8.2 13 9 5 8
Jovani Moran 0 0 7.88 5 0 0 8.0 9 7 7 10
Ian Gibaut 0 0 2.70 3 0 0 6.2 7 2 2 4
Devin Smeltzer 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 4.2 1 0 1 3
Willians Astudillo 0 0 2.25 4 0 0 4.0 1 1 2 0
Brandon Waddell 0 1 11.25 4 0 0 4.0 10 5 3 1

👥 Roster (57)

Andrew Albers Jorge Alcala Shaun Anderson Luis Arraez Willians Astudillo Charlie Barnes Kyle Barraclough Jose Berrios Travis Blankenhorn Beau Burrows Byron Buxton Jake Cave +45 more

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The 2021 Minnesota Twins in brief

The 2021 Minnesota Twins won 73 games and lost 89, ending up 5th in the AL Central. With 729 runs scored and 834 given up, the 2021 differential was -105. At the plate the Minnesota Twins hit .241, 2% worse than the league's .245. Pitchers allowed 4.83 earned runs per nine innings, against a league figure of 4.32. Measured against the 745-run league average, the offense was 2% behind.

Attendance at Target Field totaled 1,310,199 for the year. Jorge Polanco topped the Minnesota Twins with 33 home runs. Michael Pineda was the top winner, with 9 victories. Jose Berrios struck out 126, the most on the club. Alex Colome closed out 17 saves. The roster section lists 57 players who appeared for the club.

Frequently Asked Questions about the 2021 Minnesota Twins

What was the 2021 Minnesota Twins record?
The 2021 Minnesota Twins finished 73-89 (.451 win pct).
Who led the 2021 Minnesota Twins in home runs?
Jorge Polanco led the 2021 Minnesota Twins with 33 home runs.
What was the 2021 Minnesota Twins team ERA?
The 2021 Minnesota Twins posted a team ERA of 4.83.
Did the 2021 Minnesota Twins win the World Series?
No. The 2021 Minnesota Twins did not win the World Series.
Where did the 2021 Minnesota Twins play?
The 2021 Minnesota Twins played home games at Target Field.
Who led the 2021 Minnesota Twins in hitting and pitching?
Team leaders were Jorge Polanco (33 HR, 98 RBI) and Michael Pineda (9-8, 3.62 ERA).
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