Twins Staying Busy in Secondary Market as International Amateur Free Agency Opens, Sign Another Dominican Teen

[Matthew Trueblood]

This one has nothing to do with the impending decision by Roki Sasaki, but another flamethrowing young pitcher has created another opportunity to pick up a previously committed Latin American talent—and, once again, the nimble Twins are taking advantage.

Raudy Reyes had a major growth spurt and emerged late on the scene as the top non-Sasaki arm in this class, and the team from suburban Cobb County, Georgia pivoted to sign him, despite the major resource reallocation that required. In so doing, they vacated an informal agreement with Dencer Diaz, an infielder from the Dominican Republic, and the Twins' international scouting department (guided by, among others, Kevin Goldstein) was in position to offer a substantial bonus to snare Diaz on the rebound. This is the second late move they've made as this market opens for 2025, supplementing a class previously viewed as interesting but not exceptional. With Diaz and Teilon Serrano added to their haul, the Twins keep building upon a strong reputation in Latin America.

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[LambchoP]

Would have been nice to get the "flame throwing young pitcher"  that ATL got

[twinstalker]

This is very different from the Sasaki situation, unless Reyes is getting Atlanta's full cap.  This seems more of a "let's set our least promising prospect who set to sign for any real money free."  Or we should hope.

Reyes signed for $1.8 of their $6.2 million allotment.

[old nurse]

2 hours ago, twinstalker said:

This is very different from the Sasaki situation, unless Reyes is getting Atlanta's full cap.  This seems more of a "let's set our least promising prospect who set to sign for any real money free."  Or we should hope.

Reyes signed for $1.8 of their $6.2 million allotment.

They are expected to sign 3 other highly regarded infielders. They signed a Cuban outfielder for 2.5. That 6.2 shrinks quickly. 

[Doctor Wu]

18 hours ago, Matthew Trueblood said:

This one has nothing to do with the impending decision by Roki Sasaki, but another flamethrowing young pitcher has created another opportunity to pick up a previously committed Latin American talent—and, once again, the nimble Twins are taking advantage.

Raudy Reyes had a major growth spurt and emerged late on the scene as the top non-Sasaki arm in this class, and the team from suburban Cobb County, Georgia pivoted to sign him, despite the major resource reallocation that required. In so doing, they vacated an informal agreement with Dencer Diaz, an infielder from the Dominican Republic, and the Twins' international scouting department (guided by, among others, Kevin Goldstein) was in position to offer a substantial bonus to snare Diaz on the rebound. This is the second late move they've made as this market opens for 2025, supplementing a class previously viewed as interesting but not exceptional. With Diaz and Teilon Serrano added to their haul, the Twins keep building upon a strong reputation in Latin America.

 

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Appreciate the information. I certainly won't see this sort of signing on ESPN. Another infielder? Okay, maybe not an exciting signing, but with these young Dominican players, who knows what can happen. Always worth a shot, but yeah, that "flame-throwing" pitcher would have been a nice get too!

[Dman]

I guess the one question I have is who are the Twins dropping to add these players.  It looks like Serrano form the Dodgers is going to cost 800,000 to 900,000 and now Diaz another 400,000 that's 1.2 or 1.3 Million on top of the approximately 3.7 to 4 Mil for Leon, Taveras and Castillo. So that could be 5.3 Mil already spent on just 5 players and another 400,000 is for Barrios and they need to sign the one excellent pitcher Castellanos they found.  The money is starting to look pretty tight. Even with 7.3 Mil to spend.