2017 Minnesota Twins season

The 2017 Minnesota Twins season was the 57th season for the Minnesota Twins franchise in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, their eighth season at Target Field and the 117th overall in the American League. The Twins began the season on April 3 at home against the Kansas City Royals and finished the year on October 1 at home against the Detroit Tigers.
On September 27, the Twins clinched the second wild-card berth to become the first team in Major League Baseball history to reach the postseason after losing 100 games the previous season. They were able to take advantage of a weak American League, as they made the playoffs despite their pedestrian 85–77 record, the worst record to make the playoffs since the 2008 Los Angeles Dodgers. They lost to the New York Yankees in the ALWC Game.

Offseason and spring training

The Twins recorded a 16–13 win–loss record in spring training. Three games finished tied and were therefore not included in the standings.

Player stats

Batting

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

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	AVG	SLG
Brian Dozier	152	617	106	167	30	4	34	93	16	78	.271	.498
Eddie Rosario	151	542	79	157	33	2	27	78	9	35	.290	.507
Joe Mauer	141	525	69	160	36	1	7	71	2	66	.305	.417
Max Kepler	147	511	67	124	32	2	19	69	6	47	.243	.425
Jorge Polanco	133	488	60	125	30	3	13	74	13	41	.256	.410
Byron Buxton	140	462	69	117	14	6	16	51	29	38	.253	.413
Eduardo Escobar	129	457	62	116	16	5	21	73	5	33	.254	.449
Miguel Sanó	114	424	75	112	15	2	28	77	0	54	.264	.507
Robbie Grossman	119	382	62	94	22	1	9	45	3	67	.246	.380
Jason Castro	110	356	49	86	22	0	10	47	0	45	.242	.388
Kennys Vargas	78	241	33	61	13	0	11	41	0	20	.253	.444
Chris Gimenez	74	186	28	41	9	0	7	16	1	33	.220	.382
Ehire Adrianza	70	162	30	43	9	2	2	24	8	16	.265	.383
Zack Granite	40	93	14	22	2	0	1	13	2	12	.237	.290
Mitch Garver	23	46	5	9	1	3	0	3	0	6	.196	.348
Danny Santana	13	25	3	5	1	0	1	1	1	1	.200	.360
Niko Goodrum	11	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.059	.059
Pitcher totals	162	23	3	4	1	0	0	5	0	0	.174	.217
Team totals	162	5557	815	1444	286	31	206	781	95	593	.260	.434

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Pitching

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

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Ervin Santana	16	8	3.28	33	33	0	211.1	177	85	77	61	167
Kyle Gibson	12	10	5.07	29	29	0	158.0	182	93	89	60	121
José Berríos	14	8	3.89	26	25	0	145.2	131	71	63	48	139
Adalberto Mejía	4	7	4.50	21	21	0	98.0	110	52	49	44	85
Bartolo Colón	5	6	5.18	15	15	0	80.0	100	46	46	15	47
Tyler Duffey	2	3	4.94	56	0	1	71.0	79	41	39	18	67
Hector Santiago	4	8	5.63	15	14	0	70.1	70	44	44	31	51
Ryan Pressly	2	3	4.70	57	0	0	61.1	52	34	32	19	61
Matt Belisle	2	2	4.03	62	0	9	60.1	48	31	27	22	54
Taylor Rogers	7	3	3.07	69	0	0	55.2	52	20	19	21	49
Phil Hughes	4	3	5.87	14	9	0	53.2	72	38	35	13	38
Brandon Kintzler	2	2	2.78	45	0	28	45.1	41	15	14	11	27
Trevor Hildenberger	3	3	3.21	37	0	1	42.0	38	15	15	6	44
Dillon Gee	3	2	3.22	14	3	1	36.1	37	14	13	9	31
Buddy Boshers	1	0	4.89	38	0	0	35.0	37	20	19	10	28
Alan Busenitz	1	1	1.99	28	0	0	31.2	22	9	7	9	23
Craig Breslow	1	1	5.23	30	0	0	31.0	38	19	18	12	18
Michael Tonkin	0	1	5.14	16	0	0	21.0	22	15	12	12	24
Justin Haley	0	0	6.00	10	0	1	18.0	22	12	12	6	14
Nik Turley	0	2	11.21	10	3	0	17.2	30	22	22	8	13
Aaron Slegers	0	1	6.46	4	3	0	15.1	12	12	11	6	9
Adam Wilk	0	1	7.84	3	1	0	10.1	16	9	9	8	6
John Curtiss	0	0	8.31	9	0	0	8.2	9	8	8	2	10
Felix Jorge	1	0	10.57	2	2	0	7.2	14	9	9	2	4
Alex Wimmers	0	0	4.91	6	0	0	7.1	8	4	4	8	7
Jaime García	1	0	4.05	1	1	0	6.2	8	3	3	3	7
Gabriel Moya	0	0	4.26	7	0	1	6.1	5	3	3	2	5
Glen Perkins	0	0	9.53	8	0	0	5.2	8	6	6	5	2
Chris Gimenez	0	0	7.20	6	0	0	5.0	7	4	4	0	0
Drew Rucinski	0	0	10.38	2	0	0	4.1	10	5	5	2	5
Dietrich Enns	0	0	6.75	2	1	0	4.0	7	4	3	1	2
Tim Melville	0	1	13.50	1	1	0	3.1	4	5	5	3	4
Jason Wheeler	0	0	9.00	2	0	0	3.0	6	5	3	4	0
Randy Rosario	0	0	30.86	2	0	0	2.1	7	8	8	0	2
Nick Tepesch	0	1	5.40	1	1	0	1.2	5	7	1	2	2
Chris Heston	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	0
Team totals	85	77	4.59	162	162	42	1436.0	1487	788	732	483	1166

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Postseason

Postseason rosters

Pitchers: 9 Matt Belisle 17 José Berríos 35 Dillon Gee 39 Trevor Hildenberger 49 Adalberto Mejía 54 Ervin Santana 55 Taylor Rogers 56 Tyler Duffey 57 Ryan Pressly 62 Buddy Boshers 67 Alan Busenitz
Catchers: 21 Jason Castro 38 Chris Gimenez 43 Mitch Garver
Infielders: 2 Brian Dozier 5 Eduardo Escobar 7 Joe Mauer 11 Jorge Polanco 16 Ehire Adrianza 19 Kennys Vargas
Outfielders: 8 Zack Granite 20 Eddie Rosario 25 Byron Buxton 26 Max Kepler 36 Robbie Grossman