The Twins open the 2016 season this afternoon at Camden Yards, and their lineup is expected to be a familiar one — Brian Dozier leading off, Joe Mauer batting second, Byron Buxton at the bottom. It's the same lineup that Paul Molitor settled on about a week ago.

He plans to use it fairly frequently, at least to start the season. "It's just a matter of how quickly I want to get other guys in the mix [during] the first week," Molitor said. "But that's kind of my go-to."

Molitor hopes that lineup helps the Twins snap their seven-game Opening Day losing streak. But there are a few notable points of interest in the lineup, too.

For one thing, Trevor Plouffe is the starting third baseman for the fourth consecutive season, and that's rarer than you'd think. In fact, Plouffe is only the second Twins third baseman ever to start four consecutive Opening Days. The other? Gary Gaetti started nine straight seasons at third, from 1982 to 1990.

(That stat comes with an asterisk, however — Corey Koskie was the Opening Day starter at third from 2000 to 2002, and then again in 2004, a streak interrupted when Michael Cuddyer opened the season in 2003. But Koskie was in the lineup the next day, and in fact was the Twins' third baseman in 42 of the next 44 games, so he was still the starter there.)

On the opposite end of the spectrum, all three outfielders are making their first Opening Day starts for the Twins — and that's the first time it's ever happened. In fact, none of this year's starters — Eddie Rosario, Byron Buxton and Miguel Sano — were even in the majors as the 2015 season opened. (Here's one that might stump you: Who were the Twins' starting outfielders last April in Detroit for the 2015 opener? The answer: Torii Hunter, Jordan Schafer and Oswaldo Arcia. Arcia was injured on May 3, and demoted to the minors once he was healthy again; Schafer lasted only until he was injured on May 10, and he was released a month later.)

Only once before have all three Twins outfielders been different from one opener to the next, an oddity that occurred in 1982, when Mickey Hatcher, Jim Eisenreich and Dave Engle replaced the 1981 starters, Gary Ward, Greg Johnston and Hosken Powell. But Hatcher was in the lineup for the 1981, at first base. So this year is the first complete makeover.

And one other bit of Opening Day lineup trivia, one that perhaps should worry Byung Ho Park: The Twins have used a different designated hitter on Opening Day in each of the past five Aprils, and all five were playing their final full season in Minnesota.

In fact, four of the five were gone before the following April: Jason Kubel in 2011, Ryan Doumit in 2013, Chris Colabello in 2014 and Kennys Vargas last year. Only Justin Morneau, the DH for the Twins' 2012 opener, was on the roster a year later (he had reclaimed his spot at first base), and he was gone by the trade deadline.