BALTIMORE -- As someone who enjoys and understands advanced baseball statistics, closer Glen Perkins has heard all about the so-called luck the Twins had last year en route to their surprising 83-win campaign that saw them eliminated from postseason contention on the penultimate day of the regular season.
According to the statistic, cluster luck, which looks at how often a team sequences hits together to score runs and how often they spread out giving up hits, the Twins were the third-luckiest team in the Majors last year behind the Royals and Cardinals, according to thepowerrank.com. Fangraphs.