2012 Minnesota Twins season

The 2012 Minnesota Twins season was the 52nd season for the franchise in Minnesota, and the 112th overall in the American League. The Twins wound up with a 66–96 record, fifth place in the American League Central.

Regular season

On May 2, the Twins were no-hit for the fifth time in their history. Jered Weaver of the Anaheim Angels threw 121 pitches, striking out nine, walking one and allowing no hits. Four of the Twins' no-hit losses have occurred in California. Two of the no-hitters were perfect games.
Joe Mauer is the lone Minnesota selection to the All-Star Game, played July 10 in Kauffman Stadium. As a reserve catcher, he enters the game in the top of the eighth as a replacement first baseman and goes 1 for 1 with a single.
On September 8, the Twins retired former manager Tom Kelly's number '10'. He is the seventh Twin so honored, joining Harmon Killebrew, Rod Carew, Tony Oliva, Kent Hrbek, Kirby Puckett and Bert Blyleven. The number '42' is retired across all of the major leagues in honor of Jackie Robinson.
Outfielder Josh Willingham wins the Silver Slugger Award for the only time in his career.

Player stats

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SB
	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0
	10	17	0	2	1	0	0	1	.118	0
	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0
	42	111	7	22	6	0	1	5	.198	0
	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0
	138	470	65	126	18	1	1	40	.268	9
	26	66	3	15	1	0	0	4	.227	0
	106	299	33	72	17	2	1	30	.241	21
	2	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	.250	0
	134	484	56	133	34	1	17	75	.275	0
	84	316	33	74	11	1	6	33	.234	9
	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0
	14	44	4	10	0	0	0	6	.214	1
	43	137	16	30	5	2	0	10	.219	3
	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0
	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
	7	18	0	1	0	0	0	1	.056	0
	4	10	0	2	0	0	0	2	.200	1
	15	32	2	7	0	0	0	1	.219	0
	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0
	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0
	77	163	22	41	3	2	3	17	.252	21
	147	545	81	174	31	4	10	85	.319	8
	134	505	63	135	26	2	19	77	.267	1
	3	12	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	0
	64	192	18	44	10	2	5	20	.229	0
	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0
	119	422	56	99	19	1	24	55	.235	1
	124	511	70	150	13	6	0	32	.294	40
	128	516	71	146	38	4	4	41	.283	17
	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
	12	28	2	4	1	0	1	4	.143	0
	34	126	13	25	6	1	2	17	.198	0
	145	519	85	135	30	1	35	110	.260	3
Team Totals	162	5562	701	1447	270	30	129	667	.260	135

Pitching

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; SO = Strikeouts

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	R	ER	BB	SO
	4	9	7.39	19	19	0	98.2	81	81	26	42
	4	4	3.52	67	0	0	72.2	33	28	26	36
	3	2	2.18	64	0	5	62.0	21	15	16	55
	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	1	1
	1	4	3.68	30	0	14	29.1	13	12	4	18
	6	5	4.44	15	15	0	79.0	40	39	53	57
	5	5	4.11	17	16	0	87.2	48	40	18	58
	12	9	3.54	27	27	0	173.0	76	68	31	90
	4	12	5.12	55	11	0	109.0	71	62	27	69
	2	1	2.06	35	0	0	35.0	9	8	9	32
	6	1	5.71	49	0	0	52.0	34	33	22	26
	1	8	5.59	16	16	0	85.1	61	53	26	50
	3	10	5.31	22	17	0	100.0	63	59	55	109
	1	0	8.18	9	0	0	11.0	10	10	1	5
	0	0	7.89	12	0	0	21.2	19	19	7	12
	2	4	8.47	7	7	0	34.0	33	32	14	12
	0	0	5.40	1	0	0	1.2	1	1	1	1
	2	5	6.00	11	11	0	63.0	46	42	8	33
	0	0	3.18	15	0	0	17.0	8	6	12	8
	3	1	2.56	70	0	15	70.1	25	20	16	78
	2	2	5.40	40	0	0	25.0	16	15	14	26
	3	6	5.03	44	5	0	96.2	57	54	31	62
	0	2	5.68	6	6	0	31.2	20	20	19	14
	0	1	2.53	17	0	0	21.1	6	6	6	7
	2	5	5.69	12	12	0	61.2	41	39	22	42
Team Totals	66	96	4.77	162	162	35	1438.2	832	762	465	943

Farm system

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