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The Twins announced today that they have traded first baseman Tyler Austin to the San Francisco Giants and received 22-year old minor league outfielder Malique Ziegler in return.

Ziegler was a Giants 22nd round pick in the June 2016 amateur draft and started his pro career that same year in the Arizona Rookie League. Ziegler a right-handed outfielder started this season with the Advanced A league San Jose Giants but the Twins have not announced as yet where he will play. Speed seems to be Ziegler’s game but you can’t steal first base and his career .245 average needs to improve.

Tyler Austin smacks 2 home runs versus the A’s on August 26, 2018

Austin who is 27, was acquired from the New York Yankees along with pitcher Luis Rijo at the trade deadline last season in the Lance Lynn trade. Austin appeared in 35 games in 2018 and in 2 games this season for the Twins and hit for a .236 average with 9 home runs while striking out 45 times in 127 AB’s.

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

Results
Rk	Player	WAR/pos	From	To	G	PA	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	BA	OPS	Pos
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