1969 Minnesota Twins Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 97-65
Finished 1st in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 1,319,387, Avg. 16,915
Ballpark: Metropolitan Stadium
Won Division
American League Championship Series - Lost to Baltimore Orioles 3-0
Manager: Billy Martin (97-65)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota

1969 Minnesota Twins Roster
1969 Minnesota Twins Results

The Minnesota Twins of the American League ended the 1969 season with a record of 97 wins and 65 losses, finishing first in the AL's West Division.

The Twins scored 790 runs, best in the league. Minnesota conceded 618 runs. Harmon Killebrew walloped 49 home runs for the squad, while Tony Oliva and Rich Reese added 20 or more also. Harmon Killebrew accounted for 140 RBI. Rod Carew topped all regular hitters by hitting .332. Jim Perry and Dave Boswell led the squad with 20 wins each, and Jim Perry earned a 2.82 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Billy Martin coached the team. The 1969 Minnesota Twins qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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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 Perry	20	6	.769	2.82	46	36	4	12	3	0	261.7	244	87	82	18	66	10	153	9	0	3	1079
Dave Boswell	20	12	.625	3.23	39	38	0	10	0	0	256.3	215	105	92	18	99	2	190	8	0	10	1070
Jim Kaat	14	13	.519	3.49	40	32	4	10	0	1	242.3	252	114	94	23	75	15	139	9	0	9	1048
Ron Perranoski	9	10	.474	2.11	75	0	52	0	0	31	119.7	85	32	28	4	52	16	62	1	0	0	484
Tom Hall	8	7	.533	3.33	31	18	2	5	2	0	140.7	129	63	52	12	50	4	92	0	0	5	584
Dick Woodson	7	5	.583	3.67	44	10	7	2	0	1	110.3	99	49	45	11	49	3	66	3	0	3	473
Dean Chance	5	4	.556	2.95	20	15	3	1	0	0	88.3	76	39	29	6	35	3	50	4	0	4	371
Bob Miller	5	5	.500	3.02	48	11	15	1	0	3	119.3	118	42	40	9	32	7	57	0	0	5	486
Joe Grzenda	4	1	.800	3.88	38	0	7	0	0	3	48.7	52	23	21	4	17	4	24	1	1	7	207
Al Worthington	4	1	.800	4.57	46	0	19	0	0	3	61.0	65	31	31	7	20	2	51	0	0	1	257
Jerry Crider	1	0	1.000	4.71	21	1	5	0	0	1	28.7	31	15	15	3	15	6	16	2	0	1	130
Darrell Brandon	0	0		2.70	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.3	5	3	1	1	3	2	1	0	0	0	20
Charlie Walters	0	0		5.40	6	0	1	0	0	0	6.7	6	4	4	1	3	0	2	1	0	0	30
Bill Zepp	0	0		6.75	4	0	1	0	0	0	5.3	6	7	4	1	4	1	2	0	0	0	27
Danny Morris	0	1	.000	5.06	3	1	1	0	0	0	5.3	5	4	3	1	4	1	1	0	0	0	26
Totals	97	65	.599	3.25	464	162	121	41	5	43	1497.7	1388	618	541	119	524	76	906	38	1	48	6292

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	153	692	637	97	197	39	4	24	101	10	13	45	66	.309	.355	.496	.851	316	10	3	2	5	12
Leo Cardenas	160	665	578	67	162	24	4	10	70	5	6	66	96	.280	.353	.388	.741	224	19	4	8	9	12
Cesar Tovar	158	591	535	99	154	25	5	11	52	45	12	37	37	.288	.342	.415	.757	222	7	9	7	3	3
Harmon Killebrew	162	709	555	106	153	20	2	49	140	8	2	145	84	.276	.427	.584	1.011	324	16	5	0	4	20
Rod Carew	123	504	458	79	152	30	4	8	56	19	8	37	72	.332	.386	.467	.853	214	7	3	6	0	0
Ted Uhlaender	152	610	554	93	151	18	2	8	62	15	9	44	52	.273	.328	.356	.684	197	3	4	4	4	4
Rich Reese	132	451	419	52	135	24	4	16	69	1	5	23	57	.322	.362	.513	.875	215	6	5	1	3	3
John Roseboro	115	406	361	33	95	12	0	3	32	5	5	39	44	.263	.333	.321	.654	116	6	0	3	3	12
Graig Nettles	96	261	225	27	50	9	2	7	26	1	2	32	47	.222	.319	.373	.693	84	6	1	1	2	1
George Mitterwald	69	210	187	18	48	8	0	5	13	0	1	17	47	.257	.327	.380	.707	71	6	3	2	1	1
Bob Allison	81	220	189	18	43	8	2	8	27	2	4	29	39	.228	.333	.418	.751	79	8	1	1	0	5
Rick Renick	71	154	139	21	34	3	0	5	17	0	1	12	32	.245	.307	.374	.681	52	4	1	1	1	1
Charlie Manuel	83	194	164	14	34	6	0	2	24	1	0	28	33	.207	.320	.280	.600	46	3	0	0	2	4
Frank Quilici	118	159	144	19	25	3	1	2	12	2	0	12	22	.174	.236	.250	.486	36	2	0	2	1	0
Jim Kaat	43	95	87	8	18	8	0	2	10	0	0	4	20	.207	.247	.368	.615	32	0	1	2	1	0
Jim Perry	47	101	93	8	16	3	1	0	7	0	0	3	24	.172	.204	.226	.430	21	5	1	3	1	0
Dave Boswell	40	103	94	7	16	2	1	2	9	0	0	2	29	.170	.196	.277	.472	26	3	1	6	0	0
Tom Tischinski	37	56	47	2	9	0	0	0	2	0	0	8	8	.191	.309	.191	.501	9	0	0	1	0	0
Tom Hall	32	50	43	5	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	14	.186	.255	.209	.465	9	0	0	3	0	0
Jim Holt	12	14	14	3	5	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	4	.357	.357	.571	.929	8	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Crider	21	9	9	3	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.444	.444	.667	1.111	6	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Dempsey	5	7	6	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.500	.571	.667	1.238	4	0	0	0	0	0
Cotton Nash	6	10	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.222	.300	.222	.522	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Perranoski	75	30	24	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	14	.083	.154	.083	.237	2	1	0	4	0	0
Dick Woodson	44	29	27	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	16	.074	.138	.074	.212	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Clark	5	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	1	0	0	0	0
Dean Chance	20	32	24	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	19	.042	.148	.042	.190	1	0	1	5	0	0
Darrell Brandon	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Worthington	46	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Herman Hill	16	2	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Grzenda	38	7	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.286	.000	.286	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	48	34	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	17	.000	.031	.000	.031	0	1	0	2	0	0
Frank Kostro	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Zepp	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Morris	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Charlie Walters	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2226	6424	5677	790	1520	246	32	163	733	115	70	599	906	.268	.340	.408	.748	2319	114	43	65	40	78

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Rich Reese	1B	117	95	874.7	924	56	7	97	.993	1.084	8.376	0	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	1B	80	66	590.3	574	34	2	55	.997	9.269	7.600	0	0	0	0
Cotton Nash	1B	6	1	24.7	29	5	0	0	1.000	12.405	5.667	0	0	0	0
Bob Allison	1B	3	0	7.0	5	1	0	0	1.000	7.714	2.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Holt	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	1	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Rod Carew	2B	118	106	965.3	244	302	17	80	.970	5.090	4.627	0	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	2B	41	33	316.3	78	99	7	25	.962	5.036	4.317	0	0	0	0
Frank Quilici	2B	36	23	216.0	84	81	1	15	.994	6.875	4.583	0	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	3B	105	96	778.0	75	185	20	12	.929	3.008	2.476	0	0	0	0
Frank Quilici	3B	84	7	223.3	15	57	5	2	.935	2.901	.857	0	0	0	0
Rick Renick	3B	30	27	208.0	21	42	6	5	.913	2.726	2.100	0	0	0	0
Graig Nettles	3B	21	16	140.7	12	42	1	3	.982	3.455	2.571	0	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	3B	20	14	134.7	12	26	2	2	.950	2.540	1.900	0	0	0	0
Ron Clark	3B	2	2	13.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.692	.500	0	0	0	0
John Roseboro	C	111	102	877.3	585	52	13	16	.980	6.535	5.739	11	27	45	21	31.8
George Mitterwald	C	63	48	471.7	340	33	5	6	.987	7.117	5.921	6	19	20	11	35.5
Tom Tischinski	C	32	12	138.0	77	5	0	2	1.000	5.348	2.563	1	2	4	3	42.9
Rick Dempsey	C	3	0	10.7	5	0	1	0	.833	4.219	1.667	0	0	1	0	0.0
Tony Oliva	OF	152	151	1370.0	311	14	6	3	.982	2.135	2.138	0	0	0	0
Ted Uhlaender	OF	150	125	1198.3	278	8	1	1	.997	2.148	1.907	0	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	OF	113	76	748.0	225	9	4	3	.983	2.816	2.071	0	0	0	0
Bob Allison	OF	58	53	430.0	91	2	0	1	1.000	1.947	1.603	0	0	0	0
Graig Nettles	OF	54	44	339.3	76	2	1	0	.987	2.069	1.444	0	0	0	0
Charlie Manuel	OF	46	31	309.3	57	2	2	0	.967	1.717	1.283	0	0	0	0
Rick Renick	OF	10	3	34.3	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.049	.400	0	0	0	0
Rich Reese	OF	5	3	31.0	5	1	0	0	1.000	1.742	1.200	0	0	0	0
Jim Holt	OF	5	0	20.7	2	0	0	0	1.000	.871	.400	0	0	0	0
Herman Hill	OF	2	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
George Mitterwald	OF	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Cotton Nash	OF	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Perry	P	46	36	261.7	12	31	1	3	.977	1.479	.935	0	0	0	0
Dave Boswell	P	39	38	256.3	9	31	2	2	.952	1.404	1.026	0	0	0	0
Jim Kaat	P	40	32	242.3	9	29	8	4	.826	1.411	.950	0	0	0	0
Tom Hall	P	31	18	140.7	1	13	0	0	1.000	.896	.452	0	0	0	0
Ron Perranoski	P	75	0	119.7	4	23	1	2	.964	2.031	.360	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	P	48	11	119.3	7	25	0	2	1.000	2.413	.667	0	0	0	0
Dick Woodson	P	44	10	110.3	3	22	0	3	1.000	2.039	.568	0	0	0	0
Dean Chance	P	20	15	88.3	3	9	0	1	1.000	1.223	.600	0	0	0	0
Al Worthington	P	46	0	61.0	2	6	0	1	1.000	1.180	.174	0	0	0	0
Joe Grzenda	P	38	0	48.7	0	14	0	1	1.000	2.589	.368	0	0	0	0
Jerry Crider	P	21	1	28.7	2	4	0	1	1.000	1.884	.286	0	0	0	0
Charlie Walters	P	6	0	6.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.350	.167	0	0	0	0
Bill Zepp	P	4	0	5.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.688	.250	0	0	0	0
Danny Morris	P	3	1	5.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.688	.333	0	0	0	0
Darrell Brandon	P	3	0	3.3	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Leo Cardenas	SS	160	159	1455.0	310	570	32	126	.965	5.443	5.500	0	0	0	0
Rick Renick	SS	6	3	39.7	9	17	4	2	.867	5.899	4.333	0	0	0	0
Frank Quilici	SS	1	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		2101	1458	13479.0	4503	1856	150	477	.977	4.246	3.027	18	48	70	35	33.3

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	BF
Tom Hall	ALCS	0		0.00	1	0	0	0.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Joe Grzenda	ALCS	0		0.00	1	0	0	0.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Jim Perry	ALCS	0		3.38	1	1	0	8.0	6	3	3	3	3	0	3	0	32
Al Worthington	ALCS	0		6.75	1	0	0	1.3	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	7
Dick Woodson	ALCS	0		10.80	1	0	0	1.7	3	2	2	0	3	0	2	0	11
Dean Chance	ALCS	0		13.50	1	0	0	2.0	4	3	3	1	0	0	2	0	10
Dave Boswell	ALCS	1	.000	0.84	1	1	0	10.7	7	1	1	0	7	1	4	1	43
Bob Miller	ALCS	1	.000	5.40	1	1	0	1.7	5	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	10
Ron Perranoski	ALCS	1	.000	5.79	3	0	3	4.7	8	3	3	0	0	0	2	0	21
Totals		3	.000	4.02	11	3	3	31.3	36	16	14	4	13	1	14	1	138

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SF	IBB
Tony Oliva	ALCS	3	14	13	3	5	2	0	1	2	1	1	3	.385	.429	.769	1.198	10	0	0	0
Rich Reese	ALCS	3	13	12	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	.167	.231	.167	.397	2	0	0	1
Leo Cardenas	ALCS	3	13	13	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	7	.154	.154	.308	.462	4	0	0	0
Graig Nettles	ALCS	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0
Dick Woodson	ALCS	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0
John Roseboro	ALCS	2	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0
Ted Uhlaender	ALCS	2	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0
George Mitterwald	ALCS	2	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.143	.250	.143	.393	1	0	0	0
Harmon Killebrew	ALCS	3	14	8	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	6	2	.125	.500	.250	.750	2	1	0	2
Cesar Tovar	ALCS	3	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	.077	.143	.077	.220	1	0	0	0
Rod Carew	ALCS	3	15	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.071	.133	.071	.205	1	0	0	0
Bob Allison	ALCS	2	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	0
Dave Boswell	ALCS	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ron Perranoski	ALCS	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Perry	ALCS	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Rick Renick	ALCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0
Dean Chance	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Joe Grzenda	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Tom Hall	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Charlie Manuel	ALCS	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Al Worthington	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals		40	123	110	5	17	3	1	1	5	2	12	27	.155	.236	.227	.463	25	2	1	3

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Rich Reese	ALCS	1B	3	3	31.3	25	5	0	3	1.000	8.617	1.000
Rod Carew	ALCS	2B	3	3	31.3	5	3	1	1	.889	2.298	2.667
Harmon Killebrew	ALCS	3B	3	3	31.3	6	3	0	0	1.000	2.585	3.000
George Mitterwald	ALCS	C	2	2	21.7	11	4	0	0	1.000	6.231	7.500
John Roseboro	ALCS	C	2	1	9.7	6	1	0	0	1.000	6.517	3.500
Cesar Tovar	ALCS	CF	3	3	31.3	10	0	0	0	1.000	2.872	3.333
Bob Allison	ALCS	LF	2	2	18.7	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.893	3.000
Ted Uhlaender	ALCS	LF	2	1	12.7	4	0	1	0	.800	2.842	2.000
Dave Boswell	ALCS	P	1	1	10.7	1	4	0	1	1.000	4.219	5.000
Jim Perry	ALCS	P	1	1	8.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.125	1.000
Ron Perranoski	ALCS	P	3	0	4.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.929	.333
Dean Chance	ALCS	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Dick Woodson	ALCS	P	1	0	1.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Bob Miller	ALCS	P	1	1	1.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Al Worthington	ALCS	P	1	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Tom Hall	ALCS	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Joe Grzenda	ALCS	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Tony Oliva	ALCS	RF	3	3	31.3	6	1	2	0	.778	2.011	2.333
Leo Cardenas	ALCS	SS	3	3	31.3	14	12	1	3	.963	7.468	8.667
Totals			37	27	282.0	94	35	5	8	.963	4.117	3.486

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