STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
Outfielder Robbie Grossman has the highest walk rate (16.5 percent) on the Twins since Jim Thome in 2010 (17.7 percent), but that willingness to take pitches comes with a side effect. Since Grossman joined the Twins on May 20, he has taken strike three more than any player in the majors except one. Entering Saturday, the MLB leaders in strikeouts looking since May 20, with season backwards K's in parentheses:
36 Chris Davis, Bal (54)
30 R. Grossman, Min (30)
30 Steven Souza Jr., TB (41)
27 Wil Myers, SD (44)
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Twins catchers Kurt Suzuki, Juan Centeno and John Ryan Murphy entered Saturday having thrown out only 14 would-be base stealers this season, a rate that could make them the first AL team since the 1963 Red Sox (17) and Yankees (18) to throw out fewer than 20 base stealers in a season. It's nothing new for the Twins; their three lowest totals of caught stealing have come in the past four seasons. The fewest in franchise history, with caught-stealing percentage in parentheses:
2015: 22 (19%)
2014: 22 (18%)
2012: 24 (18%)
