TWINS TRIVIA is hopefully a fun and informative site that will help you to better enjoy the Minnesota Twins and their wonderful history. “History never looks like history when you are living through it” – John Gardner, former Secretary of Health
Hector Santiago improved to 4-1 with a 2.76 earned-run average after another solid outing in the Twins’ win over the White Sox. Teammate Ervin Santana is 5-1 with a 1.72 ERA in seven starts this season. The last pair of Twins teammates to both start 4-1 or better with an ERA under 3.00 in their first seven start of a season were Jim Kaat (6-1, 1.11 ERA) and Bert Blyleven (4-1, 2.63) in 1972.
Holy Cow! How sad is that? That is 45 years ago!
The franchise leader in complete games pitched for the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins is Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson who had 38 complete games in 1910 in 42 starts for the Washington Senators. Twins pitcher Bert Blyleven, also in the Hall of Fame is the Twins leader in complete games in a single season with 25 complete games in 40 starts back in 1973. The last Twins pitcher to lead the AL in complete games was Carl Pavano with seven in 2010.
But who holds the Minnesota Twins record for the most complete games in a row? That record of course belongs to Twins curve-ball ace Camilo Pascual who had 8 complete games in a row between May 10, 1964 and June 17, 1964. Bert Blyleven is second on the Twins list below but he pitched 10 complete games in a row in 1985 for the Cleveland Indians.
| Rk | Name | Strk Start | End | Games | W | L | GS | CG | SHO | IP | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Camilo Pascual | 1964-05-10 | 1964-06-17 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 71.2 | 58 | 19 | 28 | 58 | 4 | 2.39 |
| 2 | Bert Blyleven | 1986-07-22 | 1986-08-11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 43.0 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 37 | 6 | 2.09 |
| 3 | Roger Erickson | 1978-08-05 | 1978-08-23 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 46.0 | 40 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 2.54 |
| 4 | Dave Goltz | 1976-05-14 | 1976-05-30 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 47.0 | 32 | 11 | 12 | 33 | 1 | 2.11 |
| 5 | Bert Blyleven | 1975-08-02 | 1975-08-19 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 44.0 | 26 | 10 | 11 | 30 | 3 | 2.05 |
| 6 | Jim Hughes | 1975-05-09 | 1975-05-28 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 45.0 | 25 | 5 | 17 | 26 | 2 | 1.00 |
| 7 | Bert Blyleven | 1973-09-14 | 1973-09-30 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 43.0 | 27 | 10 | 6 | 37 | 2 | 2.09 |
| 8 | Dick Woodson | 1972-08-01 | 1972-08-18 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 45.0 | 25 | 4 | 11 | 26 | 1 | 0.80 |
| 9 | Jim Merritt | 1968-04-11 | 1968-05-01 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 45.0 | 31 | 9 | 7 | 27 | 3 | 1.80 |
| 10 | Jim Kaat | 1966-08-23 | 1966-09-09 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 45.0 | 29 | 5 | 9 | 35 | 4 | 1.00 |
Back in 1980 Oakland A’s starter Rick Langford as a 28 year-old pitched an amazing 22 complete games in a row between May 23 and September 12 and that included a 14 inning win against the Cleveland Indians. The A’s starting staff had an work-man like 94 complete games in 1980. The starting five made up of Rick Langford, Mike Norris, Matt Keough, Steve McCatty and Brian Kingman started all but three A’s games that season. The team finished with a 83-79 record under skipper Billy Martin and pitching coach Art Fowler.
Nolan Ryan who was pitching for the California Angels at the time had a streak of 10 complete games in a row against the Minnesota Twins from September 30, 1972 through September 28, 1974 but the Twins did manage to win 3 of those 10 games. About the time Ryan’s streak was ending, teammate Frank Tanana started a streak of his own pitching 7 complete games in a row against the Twins from September 27, 1974 through June 15 1977.
I went through the history of the Minnesota Twins June Amateur draft choices to see who the best players were that the club drafted, signed and the player debuted with Minnesota across his chest. The player may or may not have played his entire career with the Twins but the WAR numbers are for their entire careers. Why are they ranked by WAR you may ask? Simple, I know of no other way to rank them, so right or wrong, I have chosen B-R WAR.
Twenty five of the 61 rounds shown have no players that qualified meaning that no one ever drafted in that round has made it to the majors with Minnesota. So if the Twins draft you in one of those rounds in the future, the odds are very much against you. Unless you have followed the Twins since day one, you might not recognize or remember some of these players.
Since the June Amateur Draft began in 1965 the Minnesota Twins have selected 72 players in round one, some are their regular first round selections and other are supplemental picks for the loss of a free agent or failure to sign a round one selection.
Over the years the Twins have failed to sign seven first round selections, about 10% of their total first round picks. The seven players that did not sign were four position players and three pitchers. You would think most of these would be high school players that chose to go on to college but that is not the case here, six were college players and only one was a high school player. The last time the Twins organization failed to sign a player was 2000 supplemental pick RHP Aaron Heilman.
| POS | HS | COLLEGE |
|---|---|---|
| C | 2 | 1 |
| 1B | 1 | 1 |
| 2B | 0 | 1 |
| SS | 8 | 3 |
| 3B | 4 | 2 |
| OF | 12 | 2 |
| RHP | 9 | 10 |
| LHP | 1 | 8 |
| DID NOT SIGN | 1 | 6 |
| 38 | 34 |
The Minnesota Twins have a long history of problems developing starting pitching. Using 100 starts as a barometer, since 1961 the Twins have signed and developed just 11 pitchers in their system that have gone on to get 100 or more starts in a Twins uniform. The only first round pick in the bunch is Pete Redfern, three round tw0 picks, two round three picks, one fourth round pick, one fifth round pick, Brad Radke was an eighth round pick, one 29th round pick and an amateur free agent (Dave Boswell).
Since the June amateur free agent draft started in 1965 the Twins have drafted 31 pitchers in round 1 or as round 1 supplementary/compensation picks. Actually part of the Twins issues with starting pitching relates to spending money or the lack there of. The first two right-handed pitchers drafted by the Twins in round 1 were Dick Ruthven in 1972 and Tim Belcher (first overall pick) in 1983 who both refused to sign with Minnesota and went on to have long careers in MLB. The first left-handed pitcher drafted in round 1 to start any games was Eddie Bane and his Twins career lasted 25 starts. As I mentioned earlier, the draft started in 1965 but the Twins only drafted starting pitching in round 1 twice (Ruthven in 1972 and Bane in 1973) between 1965-1981. The first RHP that they drafted in round 1 that actually started a number of games (45 in Twins career) was Willie Banks who the team drafted in 1987. Since 2000 they have drafted a pitcher in round 1 a total of 17 times.
| Rk | Player | GS | From | To | Age | G | W | L | IP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Brad Radke | 377 | 1995 | 2006 | 22-33 | 378 | 148 | 139 | 2451.0 | 4.22 |
| 2. | Bert Blyleven | 345 | 1970 | 1988 | 19-37 | 348 | 149 | 138 | 2566.2 | 3.28 |
| 3. | Frank Viola | 259 | 1982 | 1989 | 22-29 | 260 | 112 | 93 | 1772.2 | 3.86 |
| 4. | Dave Goltz | 215 | 1972 | 1979 | 23-30 | 247 | 96 | 79 | 1638.0 | 3.48 |
| 5. | Scott Baker | 159 | 2005 | 2011 | 23-29 | 163 | 63 | 48 | 958.0 | 4.15 |
| 6. | Scott Erickson | 153 | 1990 | 1995 | 22-27 | 155 | 61 | 60 | 979.1 | 4.22 |
| 7. | Dave Boswell | 150 | 1964 | 1970 | 19-25 | 187 | 67 | 54 | 1036.1 | 3.49 |
| 8. | Nick Blackburn | 137 | 2007 | 2012 | 25-30 | 145 | 43 | 55 | 818.2 | 4.85 |
| 9. | Allan Anderson | 128 | 1986 | 1991 | 22-27 | 148 | 49 | 54 | 818.2 | 4.11 |
| 10. | Pete Redfern | 111 | 1976 | 1982 | 21-27 | 170 | 42 | 48 | 714.0 | 4.54 |
| 11. | Roger Erickson | 106 | 1978 | 1982 | 21-25 | 114 | 31 | 47 | 712.0 | 4.10 |
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If you can’t find, sign, and develop your starting pitching, you only have a few options at your disposal, you could make a trade, you can sign a free agent, or you can find one on the waiver wire (ha, ha, ha).
The option I want to write about here is the Twins attempts to trade for starting pitching since the turn of the century, a total of 17 years. Trading for starters hasn’t exactly gone as planned either.
Do you know what pitcher has started the most games for the Minnesota Twins and hasn’t completed a single one of his starts?
The Minnesota Twins franchise leader in starts without a single complete game on his resume is Mike Pelfrey but Pelfrey does have a couple of complete games with the New York Mets. Ironically former Senators and Twins pitcher Jim Kaat holds the Washington Senators franchise record for most starts with 11 and zero complete games and he did that between 1959-1960. Oddly enough three of the ten pitchers on the list below pitched for the Twins in 2016.
| Rk | Player | GS ? | G | GF | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BF | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike Pelfrey | 64 | 64 | 0 | 11 | 27 | .289 | 0 | 341.0 | 197 | 4.94 | 1513 |
| 2 | Boof Bonser | 60 | 96 | 9 | 18 | 25 | .419 | 0 | 391.2 | 317 | 5.12 | 1723 |
| 3 | Kevin Correia | 54 | 54 | 0 | 14 | 26 | .350 | 0 | 314.2 | 162 | 4.49 | 1364 |
| 4 | Pat Mahomes | 51 | 114 | 26 | 18 | 28 | .391 | 3 | 366.2 | 217 | 5.82 | 1635 |
| 5 | Willie Banks | 45 | 52 | 5 | 16 | 17 | .485 | 0 | 259.2 | 191 | 4.61 | 1163 |
| 6 | Glen Perkins | 44 | 401 | 225 | 35 | 25 | .583 | 120 | 618.2 | 502 | 3.83 | 2601 |
| 7 | Sam Deduno | 41 | 63 | 8 | 16 | 18 | .471 | 0 | 279.0 | 198 | 4.26 | 1216 |
| 8 | Tommy Milone | 40 | 49 | 5 | 12 | 11 | .522 | 1 | 219.2 | 154 | 4.79 | 968 |
| 9 | Mike Trombley | 36 | 365 | 132 | 30 | 34 | .469 | 34 | 645.2 | 528 | 4.53 | 2815 |
| 10 | Tyler Duffey | 36 | 36 | 0 | 14 | 13 | .519 | 0 | 191.0 | 167 | 5.42 | 838 |
The MLB record holder in this category is still active and he is Bud Norris (a free agent I believe) with 185 starts and zero complete games in the books between 2009-2016 while pitching for five different teams.
The MLB leader by the way, in complete games is Cy Young with 749 and Bert Blyleven leads the Twins in complete games with 141 which comes out to 41% of his starts.
In baseball, a pickoff is an act by a pitcher, throwing a live ball to a fielder so that the fielder can tag out a baserunner who is either leading off or about to begin stealing the next base.
| Rk | Player | PO | G | W | L | SV | IP | BF | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frank Viola | 27 | 260 | 112 | 93 | .546 | 0 | 1772.2 | 3.86 | 7450 |
| 2 | Jerry Koosman | 24 | 94 | 39 | 35 | .527 | 7 | 601.1 | 3.77 | 2527 |
| 3 | Mark Guthrie | 20 | 240 | 29 | 27 | .518 | 8 | 489.2 | 4.19 | 2101 |
| 4 | Francisco Liriano | 17 | 156 | 50 | 52 | .490 | 1 | 783.1 | 4.33 | 3341 |
| 5 | Roger Erickson | 17 | 114 | 31 | 47 | .397 | 0 | 712.0 | 4.10 | 3074 |
| 6 | Allan Anderson | 15 | 148 | 49 | 54 | .476 | 0 | 818.2 | 4.11 | 3474 |
| 7 | Dave Goltz | 15 | 247 | 96 | 79 | .549 | 3 | 1638.0 | 3.48 | 6887 |
| 8 | Johan Santana | 14 | 251 | 93 | 44 | .679 | 1 | 1308.2 | 3.22 | 5281 |
| 9 | Geoff Zahn | 14 | 133 | 53 | 53 | .500 | 0 | 852.0 | 3.90 | 3621 |
| 10 | Jim Kaat | 14 | 468 | 189 | 152 | .554 | 5 | 2959.1 | 3.28 | 12385 |
| 11 | Bert Blyleven | 11 | 348 | 149 | 138 | .519 | 0 | 2566.2 | 3.28 | 10542 |
| 12 | Vic Albury | 11 | 101 | 18 | 17 | .514 | 1 | 372.2 | 4.11 | 1630 |
| 13 | Jim Merritt | 11 | 122 | 37 | 41 | .474 | 6 | 686.2 | 3.03 | 2760 |
| 14 | Jim Perry | 10 | 376 | 128 | 90 | .587 | 5 | 1883.1 | 3.15 | 7791 |
Four time Cy Young award winner and Hall of Famer Steve Carlton pitched for the Minnesota Twins in a total of just eight games in his short stint in Minnesota in 1987-1988 and he had one pickoff and that was the last one in his illustrious career in which he picked off a MLB career leading 144 runners.
Tippy Martinez pitched for Minnesota in his final season in the big leagues in 1988 after pitching for the Yankees in 1974-1976 and the Orioles in 1976-1986. According to Wikipedia:
“Martinez may be best known for picking off three Toronto Blue Jays at first base in one inning during an August 24, 1983 game at Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium. The Orioles, having replaced both their starting catcher and his backup while rallying to tie the game in the ninth inning, entered the tenth with reserve infielder Lenn Sakata in the game at catcher. Three consecutive Blue Jays hitters reached first base and each one, thinking it would be easy to steal a base on Sakata, took a big lead. Martinez picked off all three baserunners, then became the winning pitcher when the Orioles won the game on Sakata’s home run in the bottom of the tenth.”
Korean pitcher ordered to do community service for firing a pickoff throw at opponent’s head.
In 2014 Jon Lester of the Red Sox finishes his year having faced 346 batters with at least one runner on base, yet without having attempted a single pickoff throw.
Not that we have seen any low hit games pitched by Twins pitchers recently but I thought it would still be fun to take a look back over Minnesota Twins history and see what we can find.
The Minnesota Twins have been no-hit on five occasions since the team started play in Minnesota in 1961. Previous to moving to Minnesota the team was known as the Washington Senators and from 1913 through 1960 they were no-hit four times. That is a lot of games (over 10,000) played to be no-hit just nine times.
One-hitters or near no-hitters happen on a more frequent basis, for example the Senators have been one-hit 22 times from 1913-1960 and the Twins have been one-hit a total of 31 times between 1961-2015.
Let’s take a look at some of the games where the Twins had only a single hit.
The 2016 MLB will take place June 9, 2016 in Secacus, New Jersey and the Minnesota Twins will have the 17th selection this year. There are already numerous mock drafts being published but as normal they are all over the board, so what else is new. Here is a list (with pictures) on MLB.com of their proposed top 100 2016 prospects.
Baseball draft are so different from all the other sports in many ways but the two main differences that stand out is that baseball drafts are more international than other sports and if you get drafted in baseball you can look forward to spend a number of years in the minor leagues before you have the experience and necessary skill sets to play in the major leagues. Sure there have been some players that went directly to the major leagues but they are rare and the last player to do so I believe is RHP Mike Leake who was drafted eighth overall in 2010 by the Cincinnati Reds from Arizona State and now pitches for the Cardinals. The last Twins player to be drafted and go straight to a big league mound was LHP Eddie Bane who also was from Arizona State.
The June amateur draft is exciting for the fans but it is serious business for the MLB teams that have spent lots of time and money watching these young prospects as they try to determine who is the best player available when it comes time to make their selection. Mistakes in a draft can and do haunt teams for many years. There are many ways to mess up a draft choice, the player may not turn out to be as good as you thought, you might have bypassed a star player, you might not be able to sign the player, the player and/or his agent may state they don’t want to play for you, and of course an injury may cut his career short. If everything goes your way you have yourself a baseball player but the odds are stacked against you.
The Designated Hitter rule came into play in the American League for the first time in 1973 and pitchers in the AL had to put their bats into storage where they still sit today. Since 1973 very few AL pitchers have had to dust off and apply pine tar to their bats before walking to home plate to try to get some wood on the ball.
Do you know what pitcher got the last hit for the Minnesota Twins before the DH cane into play? How about that last Twins pitcher to bat before the DH?
I guess it was fitting that a Minnesota native Dave Goltz would be the last Twins pitcher to bat at Met Stadium before pitchers were told not to bother to bring their bats to spring training the following season. But back to the last Twins pitcher to get a hit before the DH, it happened in the same game that Goltz had the last pitcher’s at bat in front of only 3,193 fans at Met Stadium. This pitcher finished his 1972 season with a .160 average which was a career best and six RBI. Two of those six RBI came in that last at bat when he hit a double and had two RBI off Chicago White Sox pitcher Dan Neumeier to make the score Twins 10 and the mighty whitey’s 0 in the top of the fifth inning. So who was this guy? You might be surprised. But if you can’t figure it out at least take a guess and then you can look it up in the box score.
After the 1972 season Twins pitchers never got a hit again outside of any post season action until 1997 when Interleague play was introduced. With Interleague play pitchers once again batted in NL parks but the DH was still in play in AL parks. There was one game since the DH started that a Twins pitcher came to bat in a home game and actually had a hit and that was Bobby Korecky back on May 19, 2008 in a four hour 12 inning marathon against the Texas Rangers.
| Rk | Player | Date | Tm | Opp | Rslt | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyle Gibson | 2015-06-16 | MIN | STL | L 2-3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Mike Pelfrey | 2015-05-20 | MIN | PIT | W 4-3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Kevin Correia | 2014-07-12 | MIN | COL | W 9-3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Kyle Gibson | 2014-06-02 | MIN | MIL | L 2-6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Scott Diamond | 2013-06-26 | MIN | MIA | L 3-5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Scott Diamond | 2012-05-18 | MIN | MIL | W 11-3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Scott Baker | 2011-06-24 | MIN | MIL | L 3-4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Francisco Liriano | 2011-05-22 | MIN | ARI | L 2-3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Scott Baker | 2011-05-21 | MIN | ARI | L 6-9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Carl Pavano | 2010-06-26 | MIN | NYM | W 6-0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Carl Pavano | 2010-06-20 | MIN | PHI | W 4-1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Scott Baker | 2008-06-26 | MIN | SDP | W 4-3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Kevin Slowey | 2008-06-13 | MIN | MIL | W 10-2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Bobby Korecky | 2008-05-19 | MIN | TEX | W 7-6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Livan Hernandez | 2008-05-17 | MIN | COL | L 2-3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Nick Blackburn | 2008-05-16 | MIN | COL | W 4-2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Johan Santana | 2007-06-24 | MIN | FLA | W 7-4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Johan Santana | 2007-06-19 | MIN | NYM | W 9-0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Carlos Silva | 2006-06-21 | MIN | HOU | L 3-5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Francisco Liriano | 2006-05-19 | MIN | MIL | W 7-1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 21 | Joe Mays | 2005-06-10 | MIN | LAD | L 5-6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Johan Santana | 2005-06-08 | MIN | ARI | W 10-0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Johan Santana | 2004-06-20 | MIN | MIL | W 4-2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | Johan Santana | 2004-06-15 | MIN | MON | W 8-2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 25 | Kyle Lohse | 2003-06-21 | MIN | MIL | L 1-8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Brad Radke | 2003-06-20 | MIN | MIL | L 2-3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Johan Santana | 2003-06-07 | MIN | SDP | W 6-2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Joe Mays | 2003-06-03 | MIN | SFG | W 6-4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Johan Santana | 2002-06-23 | MIN | PHI | W 5-1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Kyle Lohse | 2002-06-16 | MIN | MIL | W 7-6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Eric Milton | 2002-06-15 | MIN | MIL | W 5-2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 32 | Rick Reed | 2002-06-14 | MIN | MIL | L 5-7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Brad Radke | 2001-07-13 | MIN | MIL | L 3-6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Kyle Lohse | 2001-07-12 | MIN | MIL | W 13-5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 35 | Brad Radke | 2001-06-17 | MIN | CHC | L 4-5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Juan Rincon | 2001-06-16 | MIN | CHC | L 4-11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | J.C. Romero | 2001-06-15 | MIN | CHC | L 3-5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Joe Mays | 2000-07-07 | MIN | PIT | L 6-8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Sean Bergman | 2000-06-03 | MIN | CIN | L 3-9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Joe Mays | 2000-06-02 | MIN | CIN | L 3-4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Dan Perkins | 1999-06-11 | MIN | MIL | W 9-7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | Eric Milton | 1998-07-02 | MIN | CIN | L 7-8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | Eric Milton | 1998-06-22 | MIN | HOU | W 5-3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 44 | Eric Milton | 1998-06-06 | MIN | PIT | L 3-4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | Mike Morgan | 1998-06-05 | MIN | PIT | L 1-6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Bob Tewksbury | 1997-09-02 | MIN | CHC | L 3-9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 47 | Rich Robertson | 1997-06-14 | MIN | HOU | W 6-1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Note that in 2009 Twins pitchers had no hits. Twins pitchers also had no hits between 1973 and 1996 although four pitchers had plate appearances, but sadly they all culminated with a strike out.