Minnesota Twins Notes: Offense=Pathetic

Marty Andrade details the Twins poor offense thus far in the season.

by Marty Andrade (Senior Writer)

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April 07, 2008

MLB, AL Central, Minnesota Twins, Boof Bonser

Boof Bonser gets a quality start, allowing three runs in seven innings, and the bullpen once again held the score.

The Twins offense, however, manages just one run in a 3-1 loss.

It looks like the Twins are having another Piranha year. (And, if you want to know why Piranha-ism isn't the way to go, see WGOM's Greekhouse take on the subject, I,

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II, III)

Twins pitchers have so far held opponents to a .670 OPS, the AL average OPS is .728. The Twins hitters have managed just a .637 OPS. Is there hope for the Twins?

Well, if Morneau keeps hitting homers, maybe it won't be so bad.

Update: The stats keep changing as games get finished up today, but according to ESPN the Twins are 8th in the majors in run prevention (this includes the DH-less NL), while they rank 27th in the Majors in OPS (again, this means there are a bunch of NL teams who are scoring more runs than the Twins)

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comments (3) write a comment »

  1. reply to comment by Andrew
    7 months ago

    For the record, I think that quality start is one of the worst statistics of all time. Yesterday's game was filled with mental mistakes, including Gomez's "extended single".

  2. reply to comment by Dan
    7 months ago

    I agree that a QS doesn't tell the whole story, BOOF spent far too much time mopping up the messes he made, but its useful to show that he didn't pitch us out of the game. He and Blackburn have both thrown good games and been betrayed by the offense.

  3. reply to comment by Marty
    7 months ago

    If not QS, then what?

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