Eduardo Escobar

Home-run happy: Here are some longball facts about these Twins

Published Sep. 29, 2015 3:00 p.m. ET

Dave Heller

This year's Minnesota Twins team is hitting home runs at a rate not seen since they moved into Target Field.

Get our your homer hankies; here are a few longball facts about this year's team.

-- The Twins have their first season with three players having 20+ home runs since 2010 when Jim Thome (23), Delmon Young (21) and Jason Kubel (21) barely crossed the plateau. The 2015 Twins' trio consists of Brian Dozier (28), Torii Hunter (22) and Trevor Plouffe (22).

-- If Miguel Sano can hit three more home runs in the final few games, it will be the first time the Twins will have four players with 20+ home runs since 2009 when Michael Cuddyer (32), Justin Morneau (30), Joe Mauer (28) and Kubel (28) did it.

-- Dozier has a new record for most home runs by a Twins second baseman, breaking his own record of 23 he set last year. Those are the only seasons in Minnesota history in which a second baseman has hit 20+ homers. Dozier also owns the third-most HR by a second baseman in franchise history with 18.

-- Eduardo Escobar and Aaron Hicks each have more home runs this season than they did for their careers entering this season. Escobar has 12 in 2015 and entered with nine homers from 2011-14. Hicks had nine homers entering this season and has his 11 in '15.

-- Torii Hunter isn't going to set a career high in homers, but he has over 20 for the first time since 2011. If he can knock two more out of the park, that would give him his sixth-most for any season in his career. Not too bad for someone who turned 40 in July.

-- Playing in just half the season, Sano, with 17 homers, already has the seventh-most by a designated hitter in a season in Twins history.

-- Trevor Plouffe needs two more homers to tie his career high with 24. He is one of four Twins third basemen to have two 20+ homer seasons with the Twins. The others are Harmon Killebrew (13), Gary Gaetti (6) and Corey Koskie (2).

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