1961 Minnesota Twins Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Play Index Relaunched--Free Trial / Blog Post
B-R on Twitter / Facebook
S-R.com: Baseball | Basketball | Football | Hockey | Olympics

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Teams > Franchise Encyclopedia > 1961 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

1961 Minnesota Twins Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1960 / 1962)
70-90, Finished 7th in American League
View League Standings and Leaders
Scored 707 runs, Allowed 778 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 73-87
Manager: Cookie Lavagetto (23-36) and Sam Mele (47-54)
Ballpark: Metropolitan Stadium (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 1,256,723 (3rd of 10)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 106, Pitching - 106; one-year: Batting - 106, Pitching - 107
BaseballAmerica.com: Franchise Executives
BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this team (what's this?)
Baseball Hall of Fame: Team Uniforms

Promote your website or business by sponsoring this page for $10 on Baseball-Reference.com. Your message will replace this ad.

Franchise Encyclopedia
1961
Stats
Roster
Batting [+]
- Detailed Stats
- Game Logs
- Splits
- Major & Minor Leaguers
Pitching [+]
- Detailed Stats
- Game Logs
- Splits
- Major & Minor Leaguers
Fielding
Schedule & Results
Scoring
Other [+]
- Transactions
- Def. Lineups
- Batting Orders
- Amateur Draft
- Minor Lg Affiliates

1960 / 1962 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Team Batting

More Stats

Glossary · Click to sort · · · · LINK · · League Register

Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Earl Battey	26	133	522	460	70	139	24	1	17	55	3	3	53	66	.302	.377	.470	.847	120	216	18	3	5	1	3
2	1B	Harmon Killebrew	25	150	656	541	94	156	20	7	46	122	1	2	107	109	.288	.405	.606	1.012	161	328	11	3	0	5	6
3	2B	Billy Martin	33	108	398	374	44	92	15	5	6	36	3	2	13	42	.246	.275	.361	.636	65	135	9	3	5	3	0
4	SS	Zoilo Versalles	21	129	542	510	65	143	25	5	7	53	16	9	25	61	.280	.314	.390	.704	83	199	8	1	4	2	2
5	3B	Bill Tuttle	31	113	425	370	38	91	12	3	5	38	1	3	43	41	.246	.321	.335	.656	72	124	13	0	7	5	4
6	LF	Jim Lemon	33	129	479	423	57	109	26	1	14	52	1	1	44	98	.258	.329	.423	.752	95	179	11	4	2	6	2
7	CF	Lenny Green*	28	156	692	600	92	171	28	7	9	50	17	11	81	50	.285	.374	.400	.774	103	240	5	6	3	2	2
8	RF	Bob Allison	26	159	677	556	83	136	21	3	29	105	2	7	103	100	.245	.363	.450	.813	111	250	17	5	5	8	1
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	2B	Billy Gardner	33	45	171	154	13	36	9	0	1	11	0	0	10	14	.234	.280	.312	.592	55	48	7	0	7	0	1
10	SS	Jose Valdivielso	27	76	158	149	15	29	5	0	1	9	1	1	8	19	.195	.234	.248	.482	26	37	6	0	0	1	0
11	C	Hal Naragon*	32	57	147	139	10	42	2	1	2	11	0	0	4	8	.302	.326	.374	.700	83	52	5	1	3	0	0
12	OF	Dan Dobbek*	26	72	141	125	12	21	3	1	4	14	1	2	13	18	.168	.255	.304	.559	46	38	2	2	0	1	1
13	3B	Reno Bertoia	26	35	128	104	17	22	2	0	1	8	0	0	20	12	.212	.333	.260	.593	58	27	3	0	2	2	1
14	1B	Don Mincher*	23	35	123	101	18	19	5	1	5	11	0	1	22	11	.188	.333	.406	.739	92	41	5	0	0	0	0
15	IF	Ted Lepcio	30	47	122	112	11	19	3	1	7	19	1	0	8	31	.170	.230	.402	.631	62	45	2	1	0	1	0
16	LF	Joe Altobelli*	29	41	109	95	10	21	2	1	3	14	0	0	13	14	.221	.312	.358	.670	75	34	2	0	0	1	0
17	UT	Julio Becquer*	29	57	87	84	13	20	1	2	5	18	0	1	2	12	.238	.253	.476	.729	86	40	1	0	0	1	1
18	LF	Elmer Valo*	40	33	36	32	0	5	2	0	0	4	0	0	3	3	.156	.250	.219	.469	24	7	2	1	0	0	1
19	UT	Ron Henry	24	20	31	28	1	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	7	.143	.194	.143	.336	-10	4	3	0	0	1	0
20	IF	Rich Rollins	23	13	20	17	3	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	2	.294	.400	.353	.753	99	6	0	1	0	0	0
21	CF	Jake Jacobs	24	4	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	31	2	0	0	0	0	0
22	LF	Pete Whisenant	31	10	7	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.143	.000	.143	-59	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	2B	Jim Snyder	28	3	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	IF	Billy Consolo	26	11	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	1	0	0	0	0
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
25	P	Pedro Ramos#	26	53	100	93	8	16	1	0	3	11	0	0	3	42	.172	.204	.280	.484	25	26	1	1	2	1	0
26	P	Camilo Pascual	27	35	95	85	4	14	3	0	0	4	0	0	5	15	.165	.211	.200	.411	8	17	5	0	5	0	0
27	P	Jack Kralick*	26	33	94	86	8	13	0	0	1	6	0	0	2	15	.151	.170	.186	.357	-7	16	1	0	6	0	0
28	P	Jim Kaat*	22	47	71	63	10	15	3	1	0	1	0	0	4	13	.238	.294	.317	.612	60	20	2	1	3	0	0
29	P	Don Lee	27	37	34	30	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	11	.067	.065	.067	.131	-66	2	0	0	3	1	0
30	P	Al Schroll	29	11	20	18	3	5	1	0	1	3	0	0	2	4	.278	.350	.500	.850	120	9	0	0	0	0	0
31	P	Bill Pleis*	23	37	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.111	.111	.111	.222	-42	1	0	0	0	0	0
32	P	Chuck Stobbs*	31	24	9	8	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.375	.444	.500	.944	147	4	0	0	0	0	0
33	P	Bert Cueto	23	7	8	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.167	.000	.167	-52	0	0	0	2	0	0
34	P	Ray Moore	35	46	7	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	-4	0	1	0	1	0	0
35	P	Ted Sadowski	25	15	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Ed Palmquist	28	9	5	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	2	0	0
37	P	Danny McDevitt*	28	16	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Gerry Arrigo*	20	7	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	163	1	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Paul Giel	29	15	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	163	1	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Lee Stange	24	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Gary Dotter*	18	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Fred Bruckbauer	23	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	27.6	161	6156	5417	707	1353	215	40	167	665	47	43	597	840	.250	.326	.397	.722	88	2149	141	33	67	42	25
		Rank in 10 AL teams				9	7	7	8	5	4		6	2	4	6	7	8	5	6		6
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

* - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? - unknown; OPS_lg for OPS+ does not include pitchers.

Team Pitching

More Stats

Glossary · Click to sort · · · · LINK · · League Register

Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	SP	Pedro Ramos	26	11	20	.355	3.95	42	34	6	9	3	2	264.1	265	134	116	39	79	6	174	4	0	5	1123	108	1.301	9.0	1.3	2.7	5.9	2.20
2	SP	Camilo Pascual	27	15	16	.484	3.46	35	33	1	15	8	0	252.1	205	114	97	26	100	1	221	3	0	7	1056	123	1.209	7.3	0.9	3.6	7.9	2.21
3	SP	Jack Kralick*	26	13	11	.542	3.61	33	33	0	11	2	0	242.0	257	101	97	21	64	1	137	3	0	4	1023	118	1.326	9.6	0.8	2.4	5.1	2.14
4	SP	Jim Kaat*	22	9	17	.346	3.90	36	29	3	8	1	0	200.2	188	105	87	12	82	1	122	11	1	10	865	109	1.346	8.4	0.5	3.7	5.5	1.49
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
5	CL	Ray Moore	35	4	4	.500	3.67	46	0	38	0	0	14	56.1	49	23	23	8	38	3	45	1	0	5	255	116	1.544	7.8	1.3	6.1	7.2	1.18
6	RP	Don Lee	27	3	6	.333	3.52	37	10	14	4	0	3	115.0	93	49	45	12	35	1	65	4	0	1	466	121	1.113	7.3	0.9	2.7	5.1	1.86
7	RP	Bill Pleis*	23	4	2	.667	4.95	37	0	16	0	0	2	56.1	59	35	31	4	34	5	32	4	0	1	267	86	1.651	9.4	0.6	5.4	5.1	0.94
8	RP	Chuck Stobbs*	31	2	3	.400	7.46	24	3	8	0	0	2	44.2	56	37	37	8	15	2	17	2	0	1	203	57	1.590	11.3	1.6	3.0	3.4	1.13
9	RP	Danny McDevitt*	28	1	0	1.000	2.36	16	1	5	0	0	0	26.2	20	11	7	1	19	0	15	4	0	1	122	181	1.463	6.8	0.3	6.4	5.1	0.79
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
10		Al Schroll	29	4	4	.500	5.22	11	8	1	2	0	0	50.0	53	36	29	5	27	1	24	2	0	4	228	82	1.600	9.5	0.9	4.9	4.3	0.89
11		Ted Sadowski	25	0	2	.000	6.82	15	1	6	0	0	0	33.0	49	29	25	6	11	2	12	1	0	2	157	63	1.818	13.4	1.6	3.0	3.3	1.09
12		Bert Cueto	23	1	3	.250	7.17	7	5	0	0	0	0	21.1	27	24	17	7	10	0	5	1	0	0	102	59	1.734	11.4	3.0	4.2	2.1	0.50
13		Ed Palmquist	28	1	1	.500	9.43	9	2	3	0	0	0	21.0	33	23	22	7	13	3	13	3	0	0	110	45	2.190	14.1	3.0	5.6	5.6	1.00
14		Paul Giel	29	1	0	1.000	9.78	12	0	4	0	0	0	19.1	24	27	21	6	17	1	14	0	0	0	102	44	2.121	11.2	2.8	7.9	6.5	0.82
15		Lee Stange	24	1	0	1.000	2.92	7	0	3	0	0	0	12.1	15	6	4	1	10	1	10	0	0	1	61	146	2.027	10.9	0.7	7.3	7.3	1.00
16		Gerry Arrigo*	20	0	1	.000	10.24	7	2	3	0	0	0	9.2	9	12	11	0	10	0	6	2	0	0	51	42	1.966	8.4	0.0	9.3	5.6	0.60
17		Gary Dotter*	18	0	0		9.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	6.0	6	6	6	0	4	1	2	0	0	0	28	47	1.667	9.0	0.0	6.0	3.0	0.50
18		Julio Becquer*	29	0	0		20.25	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.1	4	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	9	21	3.750	27.0	0.0	6.8	0.0	0.00
19		Fred Bruckbauer	23	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4							0.00
		Team Totals	26.1	70	90	.438	4.28	161	161	112	49	14	23	1432.1	1415	778	681	163	570	29	914	45	1	42	6232	100	1.386	8.9	1.0	3.6	5.7	1.60
		Rank in 10 AL teams		7	4		7				3	2	7	8	6	7	7	6	4		8331
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB

* - throws left-handed, # - throws both, else - throws right, ? - unknown

Team Fielding--Totals

More Stats

Glossary · Click to sort · · · · LINK · League Register

	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary
Bob Allison	26	168	157	1394.1	446	418	18	10	12	.978	2.8	2.4	6.8	4.1	2.7	-4	0		2.81	2.60						RF-1B
Joe Altobelli	29	27	22	188.1	55	52	1	2	0	.964	0.9	5.7	0.9	0.0	0.8	0	0		2.53	1.96						LF-1B
Gerry Arrigo	20	7	2	9.2	2	0	2	0	0	1.000									1.86	0.29						P
Earl Battey	26	131	127	1119.2	878	812	60	6	9	.993	-1.0	-1.1						-1	7.01	6.66	13	38	33	19	37%	C
Julio Becquer	29	25	8	101.2	66	62	4	0	8	1.000	-0.9	-10.6	-0.9	0.1	-1.0	0	0		5.84	2.64						1B-LF-RF-P
Reno Bertoia	26	32	31	272.2	90	22	59	9	3	.900	-1.7	-7.5	-1.7	-2.1	0.4		0		2.67	2.53						3B
Fred Bruckbauer	23	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0											0.00						P
Billy Consolo	26	7	0	16.0	6	5	1	0	0	1.000	-0.2	-15.0	-0.2	0.2	-0.3		0		3.38	0.86						2B-SS-3B
Bert Cueto	23	7	5	21.1	7	2	4	1	0	.857									2.53	0.86						P
Dan Dobbek	26	56	22	258.2	65	63	1	1	0	.985	1.0	4.6	-1.0	0.2	-1.3	2			2.23	1.14						LF-RF-CF
Gary Dotter	18	2	0	6.0	2	1	1	0	0	1.000									3.00	1.00						P
Billy Gardner	33	43	43	381.2	192	86	99	7	32	.964	-2.6	-8.2	-3.6	-3.1	-0.5		1		4.36	4.30						2B-3B
Paul Giel	29	12	0	19.1	8	1	5	2	0	.750									2.79	0.50						P
Lenny Green	28	202	153	1342.1	371	360	3	8	0	.978	-1.9	-1.7	-0.9	1.7	-2.6	-1			2.43	1.80						CF-LF-RF
Ron Henry	24	6	4	34.1	24	22	2	0	0	1.000	-0.1	-3.5	-0.1	-0.1	0.0		0	0	6.29	4.00	0	0	2	0	0%	C-1B
Jake Jacobs	24	3	2	15.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	-0.6	-48.0	-0.6	-0.5	-0.1	0			1.20	0.67						CF
Jim Kaat	22	36	29	200.2	62	19	41	2	8	.968									2.69	1.67						P
Harmon Killebrew	25	166	150	1325.2	1169	1003	143	23	101	.980	-1.0	-0.9	-1.0	0.0	-0.9	0	0		7.78	6.90						1B-3B-LF
Jack Kralick	26	33	33	242.0	60	12	47	1	4	.983									2.19	1.79						P
Don Lee	27	37	10	115.0	39	8	29	2	1	.949									2.90	1.00						P
Jim Lemon	33	121	119	904.1	204	186	6	12	0	.941	-2.2	-2.9	0.8	-5.7	6.5	-3			1.91	1.59						LF-RF
Ted Lepcio	30	63	29	284.0	135	52	77	6	20	.956	0.9	3.8	-0.1	-0.0	-0.1		1		4.09	2.05						2B-3B-SS
Billy Martin	33	106	91	810.2	458	217	224	17	61	.963	-6.6	-9.8	-5.6	-2.8	-2.9		-1		4.90	4.16						2B-SS
Danny McDevitt	28	16	1	26.2	9	0	8	1	0	.889									2.70	0.50						P
Don Mincher	23	29	24	237.0	260	234	18	8	28	.969	0.7	3.5	0.7	-0.1	0.8		0		9.57	8.69						1B
Ray Moore	35	46	0	56.1	12	6	6	0	0	1.000									1.92	0.26						P
Hal Naragon	32	36	30	278.2	181	168	12	1	4	.994	-1.0	-4.3						-1	5.81	5.00	3	3	20	5	20%	C
Ed Palmquist	28	9	2	21.0	6	1	5	0	1	1.000									2.57	0.67						P
Camilo Pascual	27	35	33	252.1	55	14	40	1	0	.982									1.93	1.54						P
Bill Pleis	23	37	0	56.1	7	3	3	1	0	.857									0.96	0.16						P
Pedro Ramos	26	42	34	264.1	44	14	28	2	2	.955									1.43	1.00						P
Rich Rollins	23	9	4	43.0	15	5	10	0	2	1.000	0.5	14.0	0.5	0.8	-0.3		0		3.14	1.67						3B-2B
Ted Sadowski	25	15	1	33.0	10	1	9	0	0	1.000									2.73	0.67						P
Al Schroll	29	11	8	50.0	10	2	8	0	0	1.000									1.80	0.91						P
Jim Snyder	28	3	1	13.0	7	4	3	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.3	0.3		0		4.85	2.33						2B
Lee Stange	24	7	0	12.1	3	1	2	0	0	1.000									2.19	0.43						P
Chuck Stobbs	31	24	3	44.2	6	3	3	0	0	1.000									1.21	0.25						P
Bill Tuttle	31	156	104	929.1	324	142	167	15	16	.954	3.5	4.5	3.5	4.1	-0.4	0	0		2.99	1.98						3B-CF-RF-2B
Jose Valdivielso	27	72	41	404.0	180	67	107	6	20	.967	-3.5	-10.4	-3.5	-0.7	-2.9		0		3.88	2.42						SS-2B-3B
Elmer Valo	40	1	0	5.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0.2	48.0	0.2	0.0	0.2	0			3.60	2.00						LF
Zoilo Versalles	21	129	126	1091.2	630	229	371	30	74	.952	-1.5	-1.6	-0.5	6.2	-6.7		-1		4.95	4.65						SS
Pete Whisenant	31	5	0	9.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0.4	53.3	0.4	0.1	0.2	0			2.00	0.40						LF
Team Totals	27.6	161	1449	12891.0	6098	4296	1628	174	407	.971	-13.9	-1.3	-5.9	2.1	-8.1	-6	0	-2	4.14	3.10	16	41	55	24	30%
Rank in 10 AL teams								2	6	9
	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary

1960 / 1962 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Compare Other Links@google.com Report an error

Site last updated Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 07:09:43 AM

Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.

Win Probability and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.

Total Zone Rating calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

A Sports Reference Site: About Baseball Reference | Found a bug or have a suggestion?
Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service | Use of Data

Partner With: FantasyPlayers.com. Contact Fantasy Sports Ventures for advertising information.