With the Minnesota Twins having 57 MLB seasons in the rear view mirror, the Houston Astros winning the World Series in 7 games, the temperatures in the mid 40’s and with no snow on the ground it is a good time to look back on and revisit the hitters that have found Twins pitching to their liking over the years.
Today we are going to take a look at Twins opponents that have 200 or more hits against the Twins, there are 23 players who fit this criteria. 200 hits is a lot of hits. Six of the 23 hit from the left side, 13 were right-handed hitters and just four (Vizquel, Martinez, Wilson and Murray) of them were switch-hitters. Just missing out on this list were Frank Thomas with 194 hits, Al Kaline with 192 and Sal Bando with 190 hits.
200 or more hits against the Minnesota Twins
| Rk | Player | #Matching | AB | H ? |
HR | RBI | SO | BA | OPS | Tm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carl Yastrzemski | 297 | 1094 | 321 | 43 | 158 | 121 | .293 | .855 | BOS |
| 2 | George Brett | 228 | 869 | 275 | 23 | 128 | 74 | .316 | .869 | KCR |
| 3 | Paul Konerko | 257 | 926 | 265 | 50 | 136 | 139 | .286 | .845 | CHW |
| 4 | Cal Ripken | 207 | 788 | 242 | 26 | 119 | 87 | .307 | .849 | BAL |
| 5 | Magglio Ordonez | 195 | 739 | 240 | 37 | 145 | 80 | .325 | .906 | CHW,DET |
| 6 | Wade Boggs | 179 | 687 | 234 | 6 | 84 | 50 | .341 | .869 | BOS,NYY,TBD |
| 7 | Bert Campaneris | 232 | 913 | 229 | 7 | 54 | 115 | .251 | .633 | KCA,OAK,TEX,CAL,NYY |
| 8 | Omar Vizquel | 212 | 783 | 228 | 5 | 68 | 79 | .291 | .732 | SEA,CLE,SFG,TEX,CHW,TOR |
| 9 | Victor Martinez | 205 | 764 | 226 | 29 | 121 | 90 | .296 | .823 | CLE,BOS,DET |
| 10 | Reggie Jackson | 252 | 902 | 225 | 51 | 142 | 243 | .249 | .818 | KCA,OAK,BAL,NYY,CAL |
| 11 | Brooks Robinson | 230 | 861 | 223 | 20 | 115 | 91 | .259 | .711 | BAL |
| 12 | Amos Otis | 195 | 740 | 223 | 16 | 100 | 102 | .301 | .818 | KCR |
| 13 | Jim Thome | 196 | 695 | 218 | 61 | 156 | 221 | .314 | 1.049 | CLE,CHW,PHI,BAL |
| 14 | Paul Molitor | 176 | 716 | 217 | 16 | 93 | 76 | .303 | .825 | MIL,TOR |
| 15 | Willie Wilson | 185 | 693 | 216 | 3 | 64 | 113 | .312 | .752 | KCR,OAK |
| 16 | Rickey Henderson | 198 | 721 | 215 | 23 | 85 | 90 | .298 | .869 | OAK,NYY,TOR,ANA,SEA,BOS |
| 17 | Robin Yount | 208 | 794 | 211 | 18 | 93 | 92 | .266 | .715 | MIL |
| 18 | Harold Baines | 213 | 716 | 209 | 32 | 127 | 101 | .292 | .851 | CHW,TEX,OAK,BAL |
| 19 | Ivan Rodriguez | 178 | 678 | 208 | 29 | 94 | 104 | .307 | .835 | TEX,DET,NYY,HOU |
| 20 | Luis Aparicio | 195 | 774 | 205 | 8 | 51 | 60 | .265 | .649 | BAL,CHW,BOS |
| 21 | Miguel Cabrera | 175 | 653 | 205 | 41 | 139 | 109 | .314 | .960 | FLA,DET |
| 22 | Frank White | 214 | 704 | 202 | 13 | 73 | 70 | .287 | .751 | KCR |
| 23 | Eddie Murray | 168 | 658 | 201 | 44 | 133 | 94 | .305 | .922 | BAL,CLE,ANA |
One oddity that I noticed when looking over this data was that only two players got their 200 or more hits from one spot in the batting order. Ricky Henderson had 214 out of his 215 hits against Minnesota hitting lead-off while Carl Yastrzemski had 228 of his 321 hits out of the three-hole.
WOW! Look at the Hall of Famer’s on this list plus some of the others will be in shortly. Anyone on this list surprise you? How about players that you thought would be on the list but are not?