Run Scored Per Plate Appearance

CHART COMPARING TWINS RUNS PER PLATE APPEARANCES
		YTD				PAST 30 DAYS
TWINS		PA	RUNS	RUNS/PA	PA	RUNS	RUNS/PA
Trevor Plouffe	3B	242	38	.1570	114	24	.2105
Josh Willingham	LF	332	45	.1355	113	13	.1150
Joe Mauer	C-DH	316	42	.1329	90	11	.1222
Darin Mastroianni	OF	72	9	.1250	39	7	.1795
Ben Revere	OF	211	25	.1185	121	12	.0992
Denard Span	CF	339	39	.1150	108	14	.1296
Jamey Carroll	2B-SS	303	32	.1056	91	12	.1319
Brian Dozier	SS	211	21	.0995	95	11	.1158
Justin Morneau	1B-DH	265	26	.0981	100	6	.0600
Ryan Doumit	C-DH	255	23	.0902	88	7	.0795
Danny Valenica	3B	103	9	.0874			DNP
Alexi Casilla	INF	184	16	.0870	37	1	.0270
Chris Parmelee	1B	115	9	.0783	23	4	.1739
Clete Thomas	OF	29	2	.0690			DNP
Drew Butera	C	63	4	.0635	22	1	.0455
Erik Komatsu	OF	37	2	.0541			DNP
Luke Hughes	INF	11	0	n/a			DNP
Sean Burroughs	INF	18	0	n/a			DNP
DNP = Did Not Play
COMPARING TOP 11 MLB RUNS LEADERS
		YTD				PAST 30 DAYS
RUNS LEADERS		PA	RUNS	RUNS/PA	PA	RUNS	RUNS/PA
Ian Kinsler	TEX	382	62	.1623	119	17	.1429
David Ortiz	BST	343	60	.1749	108	22	.2037
Carlos Gonzalez	COLO	335	59	.1761	103	14	.1359
Juan Bautista	TOR	365	57	.1562	125	23	.1840
00Michael Bourn	ATL	378	57	.1508	124	18	1452
Alejandro De Aza	CWS	353	56	.1586	113	16	.1416
Curtis Ganderson	NYY	367	56	.1526	123	17	.1382
Matt Holliday	STL	355	56	.1577	107	19	.1776
Hunter Pence	PHIL	367	56	.1526	122	16	.1311
Robinson Cano	NYY	347	55	.1585	112	18	.1607
Shin-Sho Choo	CLV	341	55	.1613	127	25	.1986
David Wright	NYM	343	55	.1603	117	18	.1538

Happy 4th Of July, Twins' Fans

JOE MAUER

It's the 4th of July, the Twins are 35-45, eight games behind Chicago and in last place in the Central Division. They do have a five-game winning streak going and have taken two of four so far from Detroit, but only Seattle, which has played three more games, has a worst A.L. record.
I decided to take a look at the Twins statistics for the past 30 days. Here are some observations:

Joe Mauer is the hottest Twin, batting a steady .419 with a .457 On-Base Percentage. He's hit two dingers over the past 30 days and both have come in the last week. Mauer's scored 11 times and driven in 13 runs. He's struck out 19 times and has six walks.

Ben Revere has hit .358 with a .385 OBP during the period and doing well on base paths with 11 of his 16 steals coming over the past month. He's scored 14 times but has 109 at-bats, the most of any Twins' player over the period.

Darin Mastroianni is hitting .303 (.378 OBP) in 33 at-bats and has walked four times with eight strike outs. He's scored over 16 percentage of the times he's been to the plate.

Trevor Plouffe and Josh Willingham have been grabbing the headlines with their home run and RBI production, Justin Morneau has slowed in his production over his last 24 games. He's hit one homer, one triple and four doubles and only Brian Dozier and Alexi Casilla have a worst slugging percentage (.337) among the position players.

Jamey Carroll has lifted his average to a (still less than respectable) .243 with the sixth best average among the Twins over the past 30 days. He's crossed the plate 14 times in his 90+ plate appearance and has 10 walks.

Denard Span is hitting .213 (.295 OBP) over his last 94 at-bats but has walked 11 times and has scored 14 runs.

Free-swinging Brian Dozier has scored 11 times but has struck out 17 times while only taking four walks in 98 plate appearance.

Now Starting In Right Field. . . #7 Joe Mauer

I was under the assumption that the Twins had plenty of outfielders? Isn't that why we traded away Delmon Young despite the fact that Denard Span is sitting on the bench with migraines and Cuddyer has a herniated neck?

Now comes news that Joe Mauer is starting in right field tonight against the Bronx Bombers because Jason Kubel is on leave with family issues. Now I'm not knocking Kubel, of course. Family comes first but that will leave us with an outfield of Rene Tosoni in left, Ben Revere in center and Mauer in right (Oh by the way, according to Gardenhire, it was either Mauer or Morneau).

Trevor Plouffe could play the outfield (he's done it before and more often than Mauer - which is NONE) but he's playing second base because Matt Tolbert has a sprained left wrist and Alexi Casilla is on the disabled list.

Why don't we put Span, Cuddyer and Tolbert on the disabled list too. Did we run out of spots on the DL? Luke Hughes is now that only person on the bench who can actually play! (see screen shot below).



Billy Smith, what have you done to our team? Hey, maybe tomorrow we could let Jim Thome play right field or is Drew Butera so Mauer can go back behind the plate?