TwinsCentric: Did you know?

Joe Mauer hit just one infield fly ball all year making his 1.0% infield fly rate the second lowest in all of baseball. That's a significant increase over his totals last year when he did not hit a single fly ball to anyone in the infield. See, there is still plenty of reason to boo him.

Mauer is often credited with having the perfect swing, and the fact that he is not popping pitches up to the second baseman is telling how square he hits the ball. That said Twins fans rarely saw this elusive perfect swing this year as his 35.4% swing rate was the lowest in baseball (compared to the 46% league average).

Once again, Mauer led baseball by swinging at just 8% of total first pitches thrown to him. With that reputation, rumor has it that Hollywood is tapping Mauer to star in the latest action movie sequel, Taken 3: The First Pitch.

32 times this year Denard Span was on second base when a double was hit – the most in baseball. I don't know what it means but it is provocative.

Speaking of Span, because he was caught looking in a baseball-high 48% of his strikeouts, he receives baseball's 2012 Voyeurism Award for liking to watch so much.

Josh Willingham had an incredible power year for the Twins – dropping 35 dingers on the crowd. That's more than anyone in one season in a Twins uniform not named "Killebrew". But, with great power comes great responsibility…and then some strikeouts. The Hammer came perilously close to breaking another dubious honor: At 141 strikeouts on the year, he was just five shy of overtaking Bobby Darwin as the Twins' single-season strikeout king. Darwin had set that mark of 145 in 1972.

Willingham is probably voting for Mitt Romney this election because, like Romney, he too enjoyed destroying lefties: his 15 home runs were tied with Chicago's Adam Dunn for the most off of wrong-handed pitchers.

According to Baseball-Reference.com, Ben Revere's 43 infield hits were tops in the American League. This is not surprising due to (A) his speed and (B) his 67% ground ball rate. The real question is, are we sure he's hitting the ball on those and not just catching it and throwing it as far as he can? Can we re-check the video in slo-mo?

Swinging to contact? The offense paced baseball with an 82% contact rate on their swings. Span and Revere were a regular Murderer's Row for contact, putting the bat on the ball in 92% of their swings.

Defensively, the Twins ability to control the run game was atrocious. Whether you want to blame it on the pitching staff for not holding runners or the catchers for being unable to throw them out, the Twins were able to throw out 15 would-be base-stealers on 135 attempts. Only Pittsburgh threw out fewer base-stealers (14).

The Twins starters threw more than 100 pitches in just 29 starts this year. Only the hapless Rockies had fewer starts (15) with going over the century mark.

(Editor's note: Depressed yet?)

The Twins pitching staff surrendered 23 "No Doubt" home runs. Those are categorized at HitTrackerOnline.com as those which the "ball cleared the fence by at least 20 vertical feet AND landed at least 50 feet past the fence." Cole DeVries led all pitchers with five No Doubters allowed.

The Twins' 541 strikeouts by their starting pitching staff were, bar none, the least in baseball. Yet, that's not even the worst performance Minnesota fans have witnessed by their rotation. In club history, it ranks as the 11^th lowest strikeout mark (excluding strike-shortened seasons). So, yeah, it could have been worse.

Scott Diamond may have been the Pitcher of the Year for the Twins but he did not get that title by missing bats. According to Pitch F/X, his four-seam fastball induced a swing-and-miss just 6.1% of the time, the lowest the game this year. On the flip side, opponents beat that pitch into the ground 58% of the time, the second-highest rate behind teammate Samuel Deduno.

What may have made his fastball that effect was how much he worked in his 11-to-5 curveball. Diamond spun his hook 29.1% of the time, making him the pitcher to use his curveball the most in the American League.

The Twins used 25 pitchers this year, a new franchise record. Correction: The Twins used 24 pitchers this year and one Drew Butura. That number topped last year's previous record of 24.

Nick Blackburn's 7.39 ERA as a starter in 2012 is tied with Jim Deshaies (1994) as the worst Twins ERA with a minimum of 90 innings pitched.