Figured I would give this blog thing a try!

First of all, I like most of you, am a fan of baseball and the Twins in particular. It has been interesting reading some of the posts on here as to how to fix the team. I will offer no theories but instead will post some statistics using what have become the standard measuring tools - AVG/OBP/SLG & OPS for batters and WHIP, K/BB, K/9 & OPS against for pitchers. I will also note the Twins ranks among the AL teams.

And now, your 2012 Twins stats and rankings:

C - .264/.342/.336 .677 (9)

1B - .204/.283/.303 .586 (13)

2B - .242/.296/.295 .591 (11)

3B - .172/.214/.255 .469 (13)

SS - .234/.306/.312 .618 (9)

LF - .309/.413/.581 .993 (1)

CF - .278/.337/.340 .677 (11)

RF - .188/.263/.312 .575 (14)

DH - .288/.392/.591 .983 (2)

PH - .353/.368/.588 .957 (2)

Overall - .244/.318/.369 .687 (12)

1 - .288/.346/.356 .702 (7)

2 - .212/.289/.282 .571 (11)

3 - .276/.382/.379 .762 (10)

4 - .239/.335/.458 .793 (7)

5 - .309/.406/.640 1.046 (1)

6 - .204/.258/.299 .557 (13)

7 - .204/.275/.321 .596 (13)

8 - .216/.273/.295 .568 (11)

9 - .244/.285/.311 .596 (10)

SP - 1.58 WHIP (14) 1.76 K/BB (14) 4.86 K/9 (14) .910 OPS (14) 9-21 6.48 ERA (14)

RP - 1.10 WHIP (3) 2.34 K/BB (8) 6.01 K/9 (14) .624 OPS (2) 4-5 3.24 ERA (5)

Overall - 1.39 WHIP (12) 1.98 K/BB (9) 5.31 K/9 (14) .804 OPS (14) 13-26 5.20 ERA (14)

Any and all comments are appreciated

There are actually teams worse than us at 1B and 3B!

Well, we have that going for us...

interesting... this:

1 - .288/.346/.356 .702 (7)

should actually make the people who think that Span is anything more than average lead off hitter, rethink...