1966 Minnesota Twins Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 89-73
Finished 2nd in the AL
Attendance: 1,259,556, Avg. 16,358
Ballpark: Metropolitan Stadium
Manager: Sam Mele (89-73)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota

1966 Minnesota Twins Roster
1966 Minnesota Twins Results

The Minnesota Twins of the American League ended the 1966 season with a record of 89 wins and 73 losses, finishing second in the AL.

The Twins scored 663 runs and allowed 581 runs. Harmon Killebrew walloped 39 home runs for Minnesota, while Jimmie Hall and Tony Oliva added 20 or more also. Harmon Killebrew accounted for 110 RBI. Tony Oliva led all regular hitters by hitting .307. Jim Kaat earned 25 wins on the mound for the team, and Jim Perry earned a 2.54 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Sam Mele 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
Jim Kaat	25	13	.658	2.75	41	41	0	19	3	0	304.7	271	114	93	29	55	4	205	3	0	12	1227
Mudcat Grant	13	13	.500	3.25	35	35	0	10	3	0	249.0	248	104	90	23	49	2	110	6	0	5	1031
Dave Boswell	12	5	.706	3.14	28	21	3	8	1	0	169.3	120	66	59	19	65	2	173	5	0	12	691
Jim Perry	11	7	.611	2.54	33	25	2	8	1	0	184.3	149	61	52	17	53	4	122	5	0	6	742
Camilo Pascual	8	6	.571	4.89	21	19	1	2	0	0	103.0	113	63	56	9	30	0	56	2	1	3	447
Jim Merritt	7	14	.333	3.38	31	18	5	5	1	3	144.0	112	57	54	17	33	3	124	0	0	4	570
Al Worthington	6	3	.667	2.46	65	0	46	0	0	16	91.3	66	26	25	6	27	3	93	1	0	5	364
Dwight Siebler	2	2	.500	3.44	23	2	9	0	0	1	49.7	47	26	19	6	14	2	24	1	0	0	210
Pete Cimino	2	5	.286	2.92	35	0	16	0	0	4	64.7	53	27	21	4	30	3	57	1	0	4	276
Johnny Klippstein	1	1	.500	3.40	26	0	16	0	0	3	39.7	35	15	15	2	20	2	26	2	0	1	172
Bill Pleis	1	2	.333	1.93	8	0	4	0	0	0	9.3	5	6	2	1	4	0	9	0	0	0	38
Garry Roggenburk	1	2	.333	5.84	12	0	7	0	0	1	12.3	14	8	8	4	10	0	3	0	0	0	60
Jim Roland	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6
Jim Ollom	0	0		3.60	3	1	0	0	0	0	10.0	6	4	4	1	1	0	11	1	0	0	38
Ron Keller	0	0		5.06	2	0	0	0	0	0	5.3	7	4	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	24
Totals	89	73	.549	3.13	364	162	110	52	9	28	1438.7	1246	581	501	139	392	25	1015	27	1	52	5896

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
Tony Oliva	159	677	622	99	191	32	7	25	87	13	7	42	72	.307	.353	.502	.854	312	16	5	2	6	10
Harmon Killebrew	162	677	569	89	160	27	1	39	110	0	2	103	98	.281	.391	.538	.929	306	12	2	0	3	18
Zoilo Versalles	137	596	543	73	135	20	6	7	36	10	12	40	85	.249	.307	.346	.653	188	11	7	3	3	2
Cesar Tovar	134	527	465	57	121	19	5	2	41	16	6	44	50	.260	.325	.335	.660	156	7	4	7	7	1
Don Mincher	139	497	431	53	108	30	0	14	62	3	2	58	68	.251	.340	.418	.758	180	13	2	3	3	9
Earl Battey	115	412	364	30	93	12	1	4	34	4	1	43	30	.255	.337	.327	.664	119	15	3	0	2	7
Jimmie Hall	120	391	356	52	85	7	4	20	47	1	2	33	66	.239	.302	.449	.751	160	14	0	0	2	5
Ted Uhlaender	105	403	367	39	83	12	2	2	22	10	2	27	33	.226	.280	.286	.566	105	4	1	6	2	1
Bernie Allen	101	350	319	34	76	18	1	5	30	2	3	26	40	.238	.299	.348	.647	111	10	2	2	1	5
Rich Rollins	90	293	269	30	66	7	1	10	40	0	2	13	34	.245	.286	.390	.677	105	9	4	3	4	1
Bob Allison	70	203	168	34	37	6	1	8	19	6	0	30	34	.220	.345	.411	.756	69	2	3	0	2	2
Andy Kosco	57	170	158	11	35	5	0	2	13	0	1	7	31	.222	.251	.291	.543	46	4	0	3	2	1
Jerry Zimmerman	60	136	119	11	30	4	1	1	15	0	0	15	23	.252	.338	.328	.666	39	4	1	0	1	4
Russ Nixon	51	106	96	5	25	2	1	0	7	0	0	7	13	.260	.314	.302	.616	29	2	1	1	1	3
Jim Kaat	47	124	118	12	23	2	1	2	13	0	0	5	41	.195	.228	.280	.507	33	1	0	1	0	0
Sandy Valdespino	52	114	108	11	19	1	1	2	9	2	2	4	24	.176	.211	.259	.470	28	5	1	0	1	0
Mudcat Grant	35	92	78	5	15	5	0	0	10	0	0	3	23	.192	.220	.256	.476	20	3	0	10	1	0
Jim Perry	33	68	59	5	13	4	0	1	7	0	0	5	18	.220	.288	.339	.627	20	0	1	2	1	0
Dave Boswell	32	66	63	4	9	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	18	.143	.156	.159	.315	10	2	1	2	0	0
Camilo Pascual	21	39	37	3	8	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.216	.237	.243	.480	9	3	1	1	0	0
Jim Merritt	31	46	39	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	4	16	.103	.182	.128	.310	5	1	0	2	1	0
Al Worthington	65	11	11	2	3	3	0	0	3	0	0	0	6	.273	.273	.545	.818	6	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Clark	5	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	.500	1.000	1.500	1	0	0	0	1	0
George Mitterwald	3	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Cimino	35	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0	1	0	0
Dwight Siebler	23	13	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.000	.154	.000	.154	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Reese	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Ollom	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Keller	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Johnny Klippstein	26	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Roland	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Garry Roggenburk	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Pleis	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Nossek	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1942	6035	5390	663	1341	219	33	144	611	67	42	513	844	.249	.316	.382	.698	2058	138	39	49	44	69

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Don Mincher	1B	130	118	1064.7	995	85	9	62	.992	9.130	8.308	0	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	1B	42	40	341.3	330	15	4	30	.989	9.097	8.214	0	0	0	0
Andy Kosco	1B	5	4	32.7	29	0	1	3	.967	7.990	5.800	0	0	0	0
Bernie Allen	2B	89	86	767.3	191	214	11	46	.974	4.750	4.551	0	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	2B	76	73	644.3	154	205	8	33	.978	5.014	4.724	0	0	0	0
Rich Rollins	2B	2	3	27.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.500	0	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	3B	107	103	915.0	83	190	14	11	.951	2.685	2.551	0	0	0	0
Rich Rollins	3B	65	59	515.7	54	107	8	13	.953	2.810	2.477	0	0	0	0
Bernie Allen	3B	2	0	6.0	0	2	0	1	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ron Clark	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Earl Battey	C	113	113	903.3	705	45	4	9	.995	7.472	6.637	3	26	41	25	37.9
Jerry Zimmerman	C	59	30	327.7	264	16	1	5	.996	7.691	4.746	2	18	11	10	47.6
Russ Nixon	C	32	18	195.7	137	5	2	0	.986	6.532	4.438	0	6	13	5	27.8
George Mitterwald	C	3	1	12.0	13	0	0	0	1.000	9.750	4.333	0	2	0	0
Tony Oliva	OF	159	157	1398.7	335	9	10	3	.972	2.214	2.164	0	0	0	0
Ted Uhlaender	OF	100	99	883.7	258	4	4	2	.985	2.668	2.620	0	0	0	0
Jimmie Hall	OF	103	88	788.0	175	6	4	1	.978	2.067	1.757	0	0	0	0
Bob Allison	OF	56	47	416.7	86	3	3	0	.967	1.922	1.589	0	0	0	0
Andy Kosco	OF	40	35	307.0	70	2	1	0	.986	2.111	1.800	0	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	OF	24	21	183.0	53	2	0	1	1.000	2.705	2.292	0	0	0	0
Sandy Valdespino	OF	23	20	181.3	36	0	0	0	1.000	1.787	1.565	0	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	OF	18	18	146.7	22	0	0	0	1.000	1.350	1.222	0	0	0	0
Rich Rollins	OF	1	1	9.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Joe Nossek	OF	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Kaat	P	41	41	304.3	19	46	3	5	.956	1.922	1.585	0	0	0	0
Mudcat Grant	P	35	35	249.0	9	55	3	6	.955	2.313	1.829	0	0	0	0
Jim Perry	P	33	25	184.0	9	22	1	0	.969	1.516	.939	0	0	0	0
Dave Boswell	P	28	21	169.3	10	29	2	0	.951	2.073	1.393	0	0	0	0
Jim Merritt	P	31	18	144.0	7	20	0	0	1.000	1.688	.871	0	0	0	0
Camilo Pascual	P	21	19	103.0	11	25	0	1	1.000	3.146	1.714	0	0	0	0
Al Worthington	P	65	0	91.3	8	14	2	0	.917	2.168	.338	0	0	0	0
Pete Cimino	P	35	0	64.7	0	8	1	1	.889	1.113	.229	0	0	0	0
Dwight Siebler	P	23	2	50.0	3	5	1	0	.889	1.440	.348	0	0	0	0
Johnny Klippstein	P	26	0	40.0	4	4	0	0	1.000	1.800	.308	0	0	0	0
Garry Roggenburk	P	12	0	12.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.189	.250	0	0	0	0
Jim Ollom	P	3	1	10.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.900	.333	0	0	0	0
Bill Pleis	P	8	0	9.3	0	1	1	0	.500	.964	.125	0	0	0	0
Ron Keller	P	2	0	5.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.688	.500	0	0	0	0
Jim Roland	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Zoilo Versalles	SS	135	135	1176.7	195	377	35	69	.942	4.375	4.237	0	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	SS	31	27	262.0	47	67	6	10	.950	3.916	3.677	0	0	0	0
Totals		1782	1458	12948.0	4316	1589	139	312	.977	4.104	3.314	5	52	65	40	38.1

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