2008 Minnesota Twins Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 88-75
Finished 2nd in the AL's Central Division
Attendance: 2,302,431, Avg. 28,425
Ballpark: Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome
Manager: Ron Gardenhire (83-73)
Manager: Scott Ullger (5-2)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota

2008 Minnesota Twins Roster
2008 Minnesota Twins Results

The Minnesota Twins of the American League ended the 2008 season with a record of 88 wins and 75 losses, finishing second in the AL's Central Division.

The Twins tallied 829 runs and yielded 745 runs. Justin Morneau paced Minnesota with 23 home runs, while Jason Kubel walloped 20 or more, too. Justin Morneau accounted for 129 RBI. Joe Mauer topped all regular hitters by hitting .328. Glen Perkins and Kevin Slowey led the squad with 12 wins each, and Scott Baker recorded a 3.45 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Ron Gardenhire and Scott Ullger 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
Glen Perkins	12	4	.750	4.41	26	26	0	0	0	0	151.0	183	81	74	25	39	0	74	3	1	2	661
Kevin Slowey	12	11	.522	3.99	27	27	0	3	2	0	160.3	161	74	71	22	24	1	123	4	0	1	653
Scott Baker	11	4	.733	3.45	28	28	0	0	0	0	172.3	161	66	66	20	42	2	141	3	0	6	703
Nick Blackburn	11	11	.500	4.05	33	33	0	0	0	0	193.3	224	102	87	23	39	4	96	7	0	2	823
Livan Hernandez	10	8	.556	5.48	23	23	0	2	0	0	139.7	199	93	85	18	29	3	54	1	1	2	627
Francisco Liriano	6	4	.600	3.91	14	14	0	0	0	0	76.0	74	40	33	7	32	1	67	1	0	3	329
Matt Guerrier	6	9	.400	5.19	76	0	15	0	0	1	76.3	84	47	44	12	37	9	59	0	0	2	344
Jesse Crain	5	4	.556	3.59	66	0	14	0	0	0	62.7	62	29	25	6	24	3	50	1	0	2	268
Dennys Reyes	3	0	1.000	2.33	75	0	16	0	0	0	46.3	40	12	12	4	15	2	39	2	0	5	188
Brian Bass	3	4	.429	4.87	44	0	14	0	0	1	68.3	84	42	37	11	22	3	32	3	0	4	303
Boof Bonser	3	7	.300	5.93	47	12	9	0	0	0	118.3	139	87	78	16	36	1	97	1	1	6	532
Bobby Korecky	2	0	1.000	4.58	16	0	9	0	0	0	17.7	19	9	9	2	8	0	6	0	0	0	74
Juan Rincon	2	2	.500	6.11	24	0	6	0	0	0	28.0	33	21	19	5	16	2	20	2	0	3	133
Eddie Guardado	1	1	.500	7.71	9	0	0	0	0	0	7.0	12	6	6	1	2	0	5	0	0	0	33
Joe Nathan	1	2	.333	1.33	68	0	57	0	0	39	67.7	43	13	10	5	18	4	74	2	0	2	261
Philip Humber	0	0		4.63	5	0	2	0	0	0	11.7	11	6	6	4	5	0	6	1	0	0	50
Jose Mijares	0	1	.000	0.87	10	0	3	0	0	0	10.3	3	1	1	0	0	0	5	0	0	1	34
Pat Neshek	0	1	.000	4.73	15	0	3	0	0	0	13.3	12	7	7	2	4	1	15	0	0	0	56
Craig Breslow	0	2	.000	1.63	42	0	10	0	0	1	38.7	24	9	7	0	14	2	32	0	1	4	149
Totals	88	75	.540	4.18	648	163	158	5	2	42	1459.0	1568	745	677	183	406	38	995	31	4	45	6221

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
Justin Morneau	163	712	623	97	187	47	4	23	129	0	1	76	85	.300	.374	.499	.873	311	20	3	0	10	16
Joe Mauer	146	633	536	98	176	31	4	9	85	1	1	84	50	.328	.413	.451	.864	242	21	1	1	11	8
Delmon Young	152	623	575	80	167	28	4	10	69	14	5	35	105	.290	.336	.405	.741	233	19	7	1	5	7
Carlos Gomez	153	614	577	79	149	24	7	7	59	33	11	25	142	.258	.296	.360	.657	208	7	7	3	2	0
Jason Kubel	141	517	463	74	126	22	5	20	78	0	1	47	91	.272	.335	.471	.805	218	12	0	0	7	2
Brendan Harris	130	490	434	57	115	29	3	7	49	1	1	39	98	.265	.327	.394	.721	171	13	4	7	6	0
Alexi Casilla	98	437	385	58	108	15	0	7	50	7	2	31	45	.281	.333	.374	.707	144	7	2	13	6	0
Denard Span	93	411	347	70	102	16	7	6	47	18	7	50	60	.294	.387	.432	.819	150	3	4	8	2	3
Nick Punto	99	377	338	43	96	19	4	2	28	15	6	32	57	.284	.344	.382	.726	129	10	0	5	2	1
Brian Buscher	70	244	218	29	64	9	0	4	47	0	2	19	42	.294	.340	.390	.730	85	6	0	0	7	0
Michael Cuddyer	71	279	249	30	62	13	4	3	36	5	1	25	40	.249	.330	.369	.699	92	7	5	0	0	4
Mike Lamb	81	261	236	20	55	12	3	1	32	0	1	17	32	.233	.276	.322	.598	76	3	0	0	8	4
Mike Redmond	38	137	129	14	37	6	0	0	12	0	0	5	11	.287	.321	.333	.655	43	5	2	0	1	0
Craig Monroe	58	179	163	22	33	9	0	8	29	0	1	16	48	.202	.274	.405	.679	66	3	0	0	0	1
Matt Tolbert	41	123	113	18	32	6	3	0	6	7	1	7	19	.283	.322	.389	.712	44	5	0	2	1	0
Adam Everett	48	150	127	19	27	6	1	2	20	0	0	12	15	.213	.278	.323	.601	41	0	1	6	4	1
Randy Ruiz	22	68	62	13	17	2	0	1	7	0	0	6	21	.274	.338	.355	.693	22	1	0	0	0	1
Matt Macri	18	36	34	3	11	1	0	1	4	1	1	2	10	.324	.361	.441	.802	15	0	0	0	0	0
Kevin Slowey	28	8	8	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.375	.625	3	0	0	0	0	0
Howie Clark	4	8	8	0	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.500	.750	4	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Korecky	16	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Baker	28	5	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	3	0	0
Livan Hernandez	23	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	1	0	0
Nick Blackburn	33	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ryan Jorgensen	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Pridie	10	6	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	1	0	0
Glen Perkins	26	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Juan Rincon	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennys Reyes	75	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Bass	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Pat Neshek	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Guerrier	76	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Philip Humber	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jesse Crain	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Francisco Liriano	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Craig Breslow	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Mijares	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Boof Bonser	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Nathan	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Eddie Guardado	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2287	6330	5641	829	1572	298	49	111	791	102	42	529	979	.279	.340	.408	.748	2301	142	36	52	72	48

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Justin Morneau	1B	155	155	1363.7	1316	89	4	149	.997	9.273	9.065	0	0	0
Mike Lamb	1B	9	5	52.3	46	8	0	4	1.000	9.287	6.000	0	0	0
Michael Cuddyer	1B	2	2	18.0	22	1	1	5	.958	11.500	11.500	0	0	0
Brian Buscher	1B	6	1	14.0	13	0	0	1	1.000	8.357	2.167	0	0	0
Howie Clark	1B	2	0	5.0	3	1	0	0	1.000	7.200	2.000	0	0	0
Matt Macri	1B	2	0	3.0	3	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	1.500	0	0	0
Brendan Harris	1B	2	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	6.000	1.000	0	0	0
Alexi Casilla	2B	95	94	833.7	196	247	12	71	.974	4.782	4.663	0	0	0
Brendan Harris	2B	39	37	319.7	56	101	5	24	.969	4.420	4.026	0	0	0
Nick Punto	2B	26	23	215.7	54	79	2	18	.985	5.550	5.115	0	0	0
Matt Tolbert	2B	11	8	75.0	15	30	1	7	.978	5.400	4.091	0	0	0
Matt Macri	2B	2	1	10.0	1	6	0	1	1.000	6.300	3.500	0	0	0
Howie Clark	2B	1	0	3.0	0	2	0	1	1.000	6.000	2.000	0	0	0
Adam Everett	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Brian Buscher	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Brian Buscher	3B	64	60	519.3	37	113	10	9	.938	2.599	2.344	0	0	0
Mike Lamb	3B	55	51	458.7	41	88	4	8	.970	2.531	2.345	0	0	0
Brendan Harris	3B	34	28	256.3	18	48	2	4	.971	2.317	1.941	0	0	0
Matt Tolbert	3B	17	9	89.3	9	24	4	4	.892	3.325	1.941	0	0	0
Matt Macri	3B	11	8	64.3	3	14	1	3	.944	2.378	1.545	0	0	0
Nick Punto	3B	12	6	63.0	3	16	0	1	1.000	2.714	1.583	0	0	0
Howie Clark	3B	1	1	8.0	3	2	0	1	1.000	5.625	5.000	0	0	0
Joe Mauer	C	139	135	1203.0	831	52	3	1	.997	6.606	6.353	4	51	29	36.3
Mike Redmond	C	30	28	253.0	180	9	0	2	1.000	6.723	6.300	0	18	5	21.7
Ryan Jorgensen	C	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Delmon Young	OF	151	147	1324.0	282	11	8	2	.973	1.992	1.940	0	0	0
Carlos Gomez	OF	151	143	1271.7	436	9	8	4	.982	3.149	2.947	0	0	0
Denard Span	OF	92	90	803.3	226	6	4	2	.983	2.599	2.522	0	0	0
Michael Cuddyer	OF	58	58	509.7	126	7	1	5	.993	2.349	2.293	0	0	0
Jason Kubel	OF	49	42	368.7	98	2	3	1	.971	2.441	2.041	0	0	0
Craig Monroe	OF	11	9	82.7	18	1	0	1	1.000	2.069	1.727	0	0	0
Jason Pridie	OF	6	0	11.0	3	0	1	0	.750	2.455	.500	0	0	0
Nick Punto	OF	3	0	6.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	.333	0	0	0
Nick Blackburn	P	33	33	193.3	14	22	0	4	1.000	1.676	1.091	0	0	0
Scott Baker	P	28	28	172.3	10	11	1	2	.955	1.097	.750	0	0	0
Kevin Slowey	P	27	27	160.3	7	18	1	1	.962	1.403	.926	0	0	0
Glen Perkins	P	26	26	151.0	2	25	1	0	.964	1.609	1.038	0	0	0
Livan Hernandez	P	23	23	139.7	7	22	1	0	.967	1.869	1.261	0	0	0
Boof Bonser	P	47	12	118.3	6	16	3	2	.880	1.673	.468	0	0	0
Matt Guerrier	P	76	0	76.3	5	10	1	0	.938	1.769	.197	0	0	0
Francisco Liriano	P	14	14	76.0	2	11	0	0	1.000	1.539	.929	0	0	0
Brian Bass	P	44	0	68.3	9	14	0	0	1.000	3.029	.523	0	0	0
Joe Nathan	P	68	0	67.7	3	6	1	1	.900	1.197	.132	0	0	0
Jesse Crain	P	66	0	62.7	1	10	3	2	.786	1.580	.167	0	0	0
Dennys Reyes	P	75	0	46.3	1	7	0	0	1.000	1.554	.107	0	0	0
Craig Breslow	P	42	0	38.7	1	11	0	0	1.000	2.793	.286	0	0	0
Juan Rincon	P	24	0	28.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	.643	.083	0	0	0
Bobby Korecky	P	16	0	17.7	1	5	0	1	1.000	3.057	.375	0	0	0
Pat Neshek	P	15	0	13.3	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.025	.200	0	0	0
Philip Humber	P	5	0	11.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.543	.400	0	0	0
Jose Mijares	P	10	0	10.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.742	.200	0	0	0
Eddie Guardado	P	9	0	7.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Nick Punto	SS	61	60	530.7	103	187	8	46	.973	4.918	4.754	0	0	0
Brendan Harris	SS	55	51	464.3	84	159	6	42	.976	4.710	4.418	0	0	0
Adam Everett	SS	44	41	364.0	61	145	7	30	.967	5.093	4.682	0	0	0
Matt Tolbert	SS	14	10	90.0	14	26	1	4	.976	4.000	2.857	0	0	0
Alexi Casilla	SS	2	1	10.0	2	3	0	0	1.000	4.500	2.500	0	0	0
Totals		2064	1467	13131.0	4377	1682	108	465	.982	4.153	2.936	4	69	34	33.0

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