Between 1973-2018 there have been 275 players that have been the Twins DH in at least one game. However, to qualify for this list which ranks them in Baseball-Reference WAR order the player must have been the DH in at least 51% of their games while wearing a Twins uniform. Tony Oliva is the Twins all-time leader in games played as the Twins DH with 406 and his is also the very first Twins DH but he was the Twins DH in only 24% of his games so he does not qualify for this list
Rk | Player | WAR/pos | From | To | G | PA | R | H | HR | RBI | BB | BA | OPS | Pos |
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1 | Paul Molitor | 5.2 | 1996 | 1998 | 422 | 1885 | 237 | 530 | 23 | 271 | 146 | .312 | .794 | *D/3H |
2 | Chili Davis | 5.2 | 1991 | 1992 | 291 | 1163 | 147 | 276 | 41 | 159 | 168 | .282 | .862 | *D/H793 |
3 | Jim Thome | 4.5 | 2010 | 2011 | 179 | 582 | 69 | 128 | 37 | 99 | 95 | .266 | .949 | *D/H |
4 | David Ortiz | 2.6 | 1997 | 2002 | 455 | 1693 | 215 | 393 | 58 | 238 | 186 | .266 | .809 | *D3/H |
5 | Jim Dwyer | 0.9 | 1988 | 1990 | 145 | 385 | 47 | 95 | 6 | 43 | 53 | .289 | .767 | *D/H97 |
6 | Tyler Austin | 0.3 | 2018 | 2018 | 35 | 136 | 18 | 29 | 9 | 24 | 11 | .236 | .782 | /*D3H |
7 | Dave Winfield | 0.3 | 1993 | 1994 | 220 | 922 | 107 | 222 | 31 | 119 | 76 | .264 | .760 | *D/9H3 |
8 | Randy Ruiz | 0.2 | 2008 | 2008 | 22 | 68 | 13 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 6 | .274 | .693 | /*DH |
9 | ByungHo Park | 0.1 | 2016 | 2016 | 62 | 244 | 28 | 41 | 12 | 24 | 21 | .191 | .684 | /*D3H |
10 | Jose Morales | 0.1 | 1978 | 1980 | 290 | 756 | 79 | 200 | 12 | 101 | 56 | .297 | .764 | *DH/327 |