Over the years 69 players have played 10 or more games at third base for the Minnesota Twins. Gary Gaetti has far and away played the hot corner more frequently and any other Minnesota Twin. To qualify for this list you must have played at least 51% of your games at third base. The most obvious name that you would think of that belongs on this list is Harmon Killebrew but he does not qualify because he played 1,939 games in a Minnesota Twins uniform but only 517 of them were at third base. My silly rule but it is what it is. My biggest surprise looking at the list is to see Eric Soderholm so high on the list.
Rk | Player | WAR/pos | G | From | To | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BA | OPS |
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1 | Gary Gaetti | 27.1 | 1361 | 1981 | 1990 | 4989 | 646 | 1276 | 201 | 758 | 74 | .256 | .744 |
2 | Corey Koskie | 22.2 | 816 | 1998 | 2004 | 2788 | 438 | 781 | 101 | 437 | 66 | .280 | .836 |
3 | John Castino | 15.1 | 666 | 1979 | 1984 | 2320 | 293 | 646 | 41 | 249 | 22 | .278 | .727 |
4 | Rich Rollins | 11.9 | 888 | 1961 | 1968 | 3048 | 395 | 830 | 71 | 369 | 15 | .272 | .727 |
5 | Eric Soderholm | 10.1 | 407 | 1971 | 1975 | 1345 | 184 | 345 | 36 | 161 | 14 | .257 | .725 |
6 | Trevor Plouffe | 8.1 | 723 | 2010 | 2016 | 2638 | 332 | 651 | 96 | 357 | 11 | .247 | .727 |
7 | Mike Cubbage | 6.9 | 555 | 1976 | 1980 | 1681 | 195 | 447 | 29 | 226 | 6 | .266 | .715 |
8 | Scott Leius | 4.8 | 476 | 1990 | 1995 | 1373 | 201 | 346 | 26 | 155 | 15 | .252 | .693 |
9 | Mike Pagliarulo | 4.0 | 246 | 1991 | 1993 | 723 | 79 | 197 | 9 | 68 | 8 | .272 | .693 |
10 | Brent Gates | 0.9 | 217 | 1998 | 1999 | 639 | 71 | 161 | 6 | 80 | 4 | .252 | .656 |