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If you still don't quite know what to make of the 2017 Twins, there is probably a good reason: for as good as the first two-plus months have been, they have also been … what's the word … weird?

Let's take a quick spin through some of the oddest developments and numbers so far this year:

*The Twins are 32-27 on the season, and their home/road splits just keep getting stranger. After their successful recent 10-game West Coast trip, during which the Twins went 6-4, they are now 20-9 on the road but just 12-18 at home. I chatted recently with Roy Smalley about some of the reasons for the disparity — pressing at home and playing easier teams on the road seem to be the consensus reasons — but it will be interesting to see if the Twins can get it going at Target Field as they start a big homestand Monday against Seattle.

*Starting pitcher Ervin Santana came into the season having thrown eight career shutouts. He already has three complete game shutouts this season. No other pitcher in the majors has more than one complete game shutout this season, and Santana has three of the 15 total thrown. In fact, no pitcher has thrown more than three shutouts in a full season since Felix Hernandez tossed five of them for the Mariners in 2012.

*The Twins have already given up 11 runs in a game nine different times this season — matching their total for all of 2016, when they finished 59-103. All of those blowout losses are part of the reason the Twins have actually been outscored 299-271 for the season. Based on their minus-28 run differential, the Twins should have their record reversed at 27-32, according to Bill James' formula.

*Reliever Matt Belisle is the one-man symbol for being pretty good most of the time unless he's really, truly awful. Belisle has been lit up in four of those 11-run games, giving up a total of 18 runs in two innings pitched (no, that's not a misprint) for a mind-boggling ERA of 81.00 in those four appearances. In his 22 other appearances spanning 20 innings, Belisle has given up just three earned runs for a 1.35 ERA. It adds up, unfortunately, to an 8.59 ERA on the season. If he keeps up this "take away everything terrible and he would be pretty good" pace, Belisle might be the Vikings' next starting left tackle.

*But as noted, the sum of these parts has the Twins' record at 32-27, good for first place in the American League Central, 1.5 games ahead of Cleveland going into Monday's action. That means the Twins are guaranteed to be in first place when they make the No. 1 overall pick in the MLB Draft on Monday evening. The last time a team was in first place when making the top pick — rare, of course, since that team had the worst record in the majors the previous year? Per PR wizard Dustin Morse, it was the Twins in 2001. The Twins were 37-18 on June 5, when they chose Joe Mauer first overall. That 2001 Twins team faded and finished 85-77, but it also laid some nice groundwork for six division titles in nine seasons from 2002-10. If 2017 worked out the same way, with the same result after, I don't think Twins fans would be too upset.