Meet the Top Five Prospects from the Twins’ Deadline Fire Sale

[Cody Christie]

Image courtesy of © Peter Ackerman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

The Minnesota Twins front office decided to blow up the big-league roster after back-to-back disappointing seasons. After trading away 40% of the 26-man roster, the Twins acquired some intriguing talent that will slot into the team’s top prospect list. Some players like Alan Roden and Taj Bradley were left off the list below because they have surpassed their prospect eligibility. Here are deeper dives on each of the top 5 prospects acquired by Minnesota at the 2025 Trade Deadline:

5. Hendry Mendez, OF
Acquired in the Harrison Bader trade with Philadelphia
Pre-Trade Stats: .290/.374/.434 (.808), 8 HR, 13 2B, 3 3B, 40 BB, 44 K, 85 G 

Scouting Notes: Left‑handed hitter with gap-to-gap power, disciplined plate approach, and athleticism in the outfield. Though there are many outfielders in the system, Mendez offers high upside, especially since the 21-year-old was over 2.5 years younger than the average age of the competition at Double-A.  

Why He Ranks #5: Mendez represents a safe bet to contribute at the upper minors and grow into an MLB regular.

4. Ryan Gallagher, RHP
Acquired in the Willi Castro trade with the Chicago Cubs
Pre-Trade Stats: 3.43 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 96 K, 20 BB, 84 IP

Scouting Notes: At 22, Gallagher mixes a reliable fastball with a solid changeup and curve. His advanced feel and ability to pitch to both lefties and righties provide projection as a future rotation piece at the big-league level. Playing at Double‑A, Gallagher ranked among the Cubs’ top-10 prospects.

Why He Ranks #4: A high-floor arm with command, Gallagher appeals as a mid-rotation starter in future years. The Twins could improve his pitch-mix and transform him into another part of the team’s pitching pipeline. 

3. Kendry Rojas, LHP
Acquired in the Louie Varland and Ty France deal with Toronto
Pre-Trade Stats: 3.46 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 62 K and 9 walks in 41 1/3 IP

Scouting Report: Rojas delivers a quality fastball, slider, and changeup combination with impressive control. Still just 22 years old, his command-first profile suggests mid‑rotation upside if his raw stuff continues to tick up. His ability to limit walks at Double‑A sets him apart among lefty prospects.

Why He Ranks #3: Lefties with polish and strike-throwing ability are rare. Rojas fits that mold and offers substantial upside with limited risk.

2. Mick Abel, RHP
Acquired in the Durán trade with Philadelphia
Pre-Trade Stats:
MLB (Phillies): 5.04 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 21 K, 9 BB in 25 IP
Triple‑A (Lehigh Valley): 2.31 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 81 K, 32 BB in 74 IP

Scouting Notes: A former first‑round pick (2020), Abel ranks in the Twins’ top-10 organizational prospects and is a borderline top-100 prospect. He throws a mid‑to‑upper‑90s fastball paired with a sharp curve and an emerging slider. He’s viewed as rotation-capable if his secondary pitches and control develop further. Recent scouting reports underscore Abel’s raw stuff as tantalizing, though critics note control and lack of a third reliable pitch as concerns.

Why He Ranks #2: Abel brings immediate upside and innings potential, and could factor into rotation plans as early as 2026. According to Baseball America, he was the third-best prospect traded at the deadline.

1. Eduardo Tait, C
Acquired in the Jhoan Durán trade with Philadelphia
Pre-Trade Stats: .255/.319/.434 (.753),11 HR, 22 2B, 30 BB, 65 K, 82 G

Scouting Notes: Tait is an 18‑year‑old left‑handed hitting catcher who entered the trade as a Top 100 prospect. As a teenager, he is extremely young for High-A. He represented the Phillies in this year’s Futures Game. He profiles with a 60‑grade raw power, plus arm strength (60), and improving receiving skills (fielding 45). Projections place him among Minnesota’s elite catching prospects once fully developed.

Why He Ranks #1: Tait’s blend of youth, offensive upside, and positional value (catching depth is scarce) makes him the centerpiece of the haul. Baseball America ranked him as the second-best prospect that was traded at the deadline behind shortstop Leo De Vries. 

Tait is the centerpiece with gradeable raw tools, positional value, and a clear path in the catching ranks. Abel offers potential rotation depth almost immediately, as injury‑depleted Twins may push him faster than usual. Rojas, Gallagher, and Mendez round out a balanced group with high-floor arms and a polished young bat, each adding depth and flexibility.

They’ve retooled by trading present bullpen strength (notably Duran, Varland, Jax, Coulombe, etc.) for long‑term prospects. These five now anchor a revamped Twins farm system, and if development goes smoothly, they’ll be foundational pieces in the next competitive window.

---

Do you agree with the rankings? Who is too high? Where do they rank among the Twins’ top-20 prospects? Leave a comment and start the discussion. 

View full article

[tony&rodney]

Abel and Rojas are the most likely to crack the MLB team as back end starters hopefully or bullpen arms. Without a fair amount of improvement with the glove, Tait and Mendez slot in at the DH position. The Twins could use a really good DH, so hopefully one of these guys takes the spot. The Twins do have Wallner, Larnach, Jeffers, and Roden lined up ahead of them at the moment, but things change as we know. 

[bunsen82]

So for Jax, Duran and Varland on the pitching side we received Bradley, Abel and Rojas. For a group of relievers you got 3 potential Starting Pitchers along with Tait and Roden.  If 1 of the pitchers can pan out to be a #3 or higher and 1 more becomes a good reliever we win this trade deadline. If 2 become legitimate pitchers we are set up very well.    All 3 have questions though.  Will Bradley regain his stuff and he is only 24.  His path seems similar to SWR. SWR had declining velocity and lack of effectiveness and continues to reinvent himself.  New pitches, changes in velocity, increase in velocity.  Ryan is always tweaking his arsenal.   Hopefully SWR and Ryan can rub off well on Bradley. Abel has control questions,  and Rojas has control and decent stuff, but is it good enough.   

 

[bunsen82]

Also,  I really like Mendez.  The kid can just plain hit and is only 21.   The question all along is can he develop enough power.  He had 8 HR this year with Philly,  then in his 2nd game with us hits a HR.  Now there is no way he will continue to have a .600 batting average or a 1.400 OPS.  However, my guess is he will do really well in a much more talented lineup than he was at philly.  It creates a lot more opportunity,  more at bats, and better situations to be successful.   I think he has enjoyed his first 2 games in the organization.  The question is how well will his defense be.  Right now he is definitely trending up.   

[tony&rodney]

3 minutes ago, bunsen82 said:

So for Jax, Duran and Varland on the pitching side we received Bradley, Abel and Rojas. For a group of relievers you got 3 potential Starting Pitchers along with Tait and Roden.  If 1 of the pitchers can pan out to be a #3 or higher and 1 more becomes a good reliever we win this trade deadline. If 2 become legitimate pitchers we are set up very well.    All 3 have questions though.  Will Bradley regain his stuff and he is only 24.  His path seems similar to SWR. SWR had declining velocity and lack of effectiveness and continues to reinvent himself.  New pitches, changes in velocity, increase in velocity.  Ryan is always tweaking his arsenal.   Hopefully SWR and Ryan can rub off well on Bradley. Abel has control questions,  and Rojas has control and decent stuff, but is it good enough.   

 

Sure. Hope is all the team has. Perhaps the Twins roll out Matthews, Festa, Woods Richardson, Morris, and Raya as their starting five next year and they excel across the board. I hope they do. Abel had a good start yesterday for St. Paul, Bradley has had some good starts in his career for Tampa Bay, and Rojas is on par with Andrew Morris. I hope all these guys do well as Twins. I'll continue to hope the Twins find some gems.

[Patzky]

3 minutes ago, tony&rodney said:

Sure. Hope is all the team has. Perhaps the Twins roll out Matthews, Festa, Woods Richardson, Morris, and Raya as their starting five next year and they excel across the board. I hope they do. Abel had a good start yesterday for St. Paul, Bradley has had some good starts in his career for Tampa Bay, and Rojas is on par with Andrew Morris. I hope all these guys do well as Twins. I'll continue to hope the Twins find some gems.

Twins territory was terrified last week. How bad will it be to see them dump Pablo Joe and Bailey in the off-season.. can only do this so many times.

[P Meyer]

Great summary.

 

It highlights some good that the Twins did at the trade deadline. Returns for Bader and Castro look decent. Biggest return coming from Duran (appropriate even if a bit risky). A decent prospect for Varland (unpopular deal).

It also highlights some of the negatives by omission. Jax for Bradley is a deal that is ultimately in the eye of the beholder. Coulombe return was a bit shocking for the reliever market IMO. Wild that the return for Brock Stewart is in the minors despite not being a prospect. Correa just a big dump. 

 

 

[P Meyer]

4 minutes ago, Patzky said:

Twins territory was terrified last week. How bad will it be to see them dump Pablo Joe and Bailey in the off-season.. can only do this so many times.

I think offseason deals bring the hope of the biggest return because of multiple bidders. I full expect one of Ryan / Lopez to be dealt in the offseason if no sale happens. Lopez is the most likely because of his contract.

[Patzky]

1 minute ago, P Meyer said:

I think offseason deals bring the hope of the biggest return because of multiple bidders. I full expect one of Ryan / Lopez to be dealt in the offseason if no sale happens. Lopez is the most likely because of his contract.

That's true, I don't know how much they'd actually get for Bailey. I still think either of Lopez-Ryan are a dominant ace.. Ryan because of his stuff and Lopez because of his leadership and approach. Hopefully they will instead find ways to drop the deadwood in the batters box and keep them both.

[bunsen82]

17 minutes ago, tony&rodney said:

Sure. Hope is all the team has. Perhaps the Twins roll out Matthews, Festa, Woods Richardson, Morris, and Raya as their starting five next year and they excel across the board. I hope they do. Abel had a good start yesterday for St. Paul, Bradley has had some good starts in his career for Tampa Bay, and Rojas is on par with Andrew Morris. I hope all these guys do well as Twins. I'll continue to hope the Twins find some gems.

Going through the trade deadline as a fan was not fun.  Odds are we don't trade all of Ryan, Ober and Lopez.  Ryan has the most value currently.  MLB trade calculator has him at 68 value.  Jax, Duran and Varland equaled 64.8.  That tells you how much more value Ryan has if we were to trade him.  More value than the combined value of our 3 of our big bullpen arms we traded. Ryans value goes up more if he can have 4-5 more really strong starts down the stretch showing he is no longer just a 1st half pitcher.  My personal opinion is you keep Lopez.  He pitched for the Marlins and is the consummate professional.  On a similar level as Vasquez.  Vasquez is giving you little on the hitting side, but he is wonderful calling a game, and being a defensive backstop.  It was well worth it to our team not to trade Vazquez at the deadline and to pay the remainder of salary. $21 million for a top end starter is peanuts plus add in the intangibles of Lopez.   They are both incredible teammates even when in difficult spots.  Obers value is incredibly low.  So if you were to trade Ryan for Maximum value you can continue to rehab both Lopez and Obers value and either trade them at a later date or run them through and see if you get a compensation pick for either 1.  I could see Lopez getting a 3 year contract for 50 million plus.  You get to keep him as the veteran pitching leader, and potentially get compensation down the road.  Filling 5 starting pitching spots seems like its a recipe for disaster.  3 spots will be difficult enough.  

[nicksaviking]

I'd put Rojas and Abel above Tait, and by quite a bit. A ball is just so far away. And while his offensive numbers are fine, they aren't exactly eye-opening and in his second year of A ball he didn't noticeably improve. I'd think if he played any other position, he probably wouldn't crack a top 100 list, and from the sound of it, his position is in doubt.

[Rod Carews Birthday]

The problem with these prospects is just that. . ..  they're prospects.  IF everything breaks perfectly, some of them could be quite good.  However, as we (should) have learned with our own prospects, that doesn't always translate to the majors.  I understand that the players that are farther away have greater upside than the ones in AAA or above, but they also have exponentially greater risk.  

Personally, my problem with the trade deadline deals isn't a specific trade (outside of Varland which is mind-boggling).  It's the sheer number of trades that were made and on the surface I don't see any of them that are obvious wins for the Twins, while seeing at least a couple that seem like obvious losses.  I get that not every trade looks good right away, but there is a massive difference between trading some impending free agents (maybe one more) and backing up the truck. I think management has a misplaced sense of confidence in their own abilities.  If they were this good at building a team in one day on the fly, why wasn't the team that they built over a period of years any better than this?

I also know that the root cause of this is making big signings (like Correa) and then cutting the payroll, which effectively hamstrings the team from acquiring talent that is needed to keep building.  It's time for the ownership change to happen so that we can really move on and build something new again.  

[bunsen82]

2 minutes ago, Rod Carews Birthday said:

Personally, my problem with the trade deadline deals isn't a specific trade (outside of Varland which is mind-boggling).  It's the sheer number of trades that were made and on the surface I don't see any of them that are obvious wins for the Twins, while seeing at least a couple that seem like obvious losses. 

The clear loss was Stewart for Outman.  The only thing I can surmise is Stewarts arm is toast.   Beyond that value wise -  Won Jax trade by significant margin (+5), won the Correa trade (+2), won the Varland trade (+1) -that trade Roden seems way too high and Rojas too low,  Griffin Jax (+4.5), Paddack (+1.6).    

Even on Coulombe, Bader trades.  Slightly low on Castro deal but Gallagher has more worth than a 1 currently.  

I am the first to say I don't fully agree with the trade calculators valuations,  but all in all it seems they got pretty good value all things considered.   

The initial looks at Abel and Mendez looks amazingly good.  Tait's approach looks solid from the limited at bats at A+.  We have Rojas in AAA.  Gallagher struggled a bit in first start, but the stuff looked good.   I want to see what Horn looks like.  We have also sent Jimenez up to A ball.  3 hits but also 3 BB on limited at bats.  The biggest question is what does Bradley look like and how much can they improve him in the offseason.   

[Dman]

17 minutes ago, nicksaviking said:

I'd put Rojas and Abel above Tait, and by quite a bit. A ball is just so far away. And while his offensive numbers are fine, they aren't exactly eye-opening and in his second year of A ball he didn't noticeably improve. I'd think if he played any other position, he probably wouldn't crack a top 100 list, and from the sound of it, his position is in doubt.

I was reading some scouts thought Rojas was undervalued and a good pickup for the Twins.  The caveat is I don't think he has thrown more than 60 some innings in any year so far.  So can he handle a starters load?  Still I can see the attraction from the Twins side as we haven't had an effective left handed starter in a long time.  Maybe Rojas is it.

Abel just needs a pitch to handle lefties and gain some control and he looks like he could be mid rotation to me.  Control isn't easy to fix though so we'll see.  He looks too good for AAA.  Needs to move up IMO.

I agree on Tait. A lot of his value is tied up in being a catcher.  I'm not sure how long he can maintain that swing with how violent it is, but we'll see.  The hype is the high exit velocities and the fact that not many 18 year old's make it to high A ever. It's a short list. Guys that are young for the level all way up tend to do better than most. With his good contact rate he could be a unicorn bat.  So his position might not matter, but if he can stick at catcher it sure would help this team.

I do agree with you that I think at the moment I like the pitchers better, but Tait has the upside to beat them in the end.  We'll know more next year.

[Rod Carews Birthday]

3 minutes ago, bunsen82 said:

The clear loss was Stewart for Outman.  The only thing I can surmise is Stewarts arm is toast.   Beyond that value wise -  Won Jax trade by significant margin (+5), won the Correa trade (+2), won the Varland trade (+1) -that trade Roden seems way too high and Rojas too low,  Griffin Jax (+4.5), Paddack (+1.6).    

Even on Coulombe, Bader trades.  Slightly low on Castro deal but Gallagher has more worth than a 1 currently.  

I am the first to say I don't fully agree with the trade calculators valuations,  but all in all it seems they got pretty good value all things considered.   

The initial looks at Abel and Mendez looks amazingly good.  Tait's approach looks solid from the limited at bats at A+.  We have Rojas in AAA.  Gallagher struggled a bit in first start, but the stuff looked good.   I want to see what Horn looks like.  We have also sent Jimenez up to A ball.  3 hits but also 3 BB on limited at bats.  The biggest question is what does Bradley look like and how much can they improve him in the offseason.   

I hope you are very correct and I will be thrilled if you are.  It really doesn't help me to know that BB Trade Values has them scored like that.  Their values are all over the map and change significantly, and seemingly somewhat randomly, on a moment's notice.  I've been around long enough to see lots of deals like these not work out at all, and when you've made this many of them, it looks pretty scary in the end.  

The other piece of this that makes me cringe is that we completely (!!!!) blew up a very good bullpen in order to acquire mostly pitching, while not really addressing the biggest weakness on the team -- hitting (fielding isn't awesome either, but one thing at a time).  Yes, we did acquire a (hopefully) catcher of the future, but the reality is that most of the current players won't be on the team by the time he debuts with the Twins.  

[SaberNerd]

1 hour ago, P Meyer said:

Coulombe return was a bit shocking for the reliever market IMO.

Yeah, but we held on to him until the last hour, so we likely weren't happy with what we got.  With this, and with him signing a 1yr/$3M contract after 3 previous years of sub-3 ERA, the league doesn't seem to be nearly as high on him as fans are.

[bunsen82]

1 hour ago, Dman said:

I was reading some scouts thought Rojas was undervalued and a good pickup for the Twins.  The caveat is I don't think he has thrown more than 60 some innings in any year so far.  So can he handle a starters load?  Still I can see the attraction from the Twins side as we haven't had an effective left handed starter in a long time.  Maybe Rojas is it.

Abel just needs a pitch to handle lefties and gain some control and he looks like he could be mid rotation to me.  Control isn't easy to fix though so we'll see.  He looks too good for AAA.  Needs to move up IMO.

I agree on Tait. A lot of his value is tied up in being a catcher.  I'm not sure how long he can maintain that swing with how violent it is, but we'll see.  The hype is the high exit velocities and the fact that not many 18 year old's make it to high A ever. It's a short list. Guys that are young for the level all way up tend to do better than most. With his good contact rate he could be a unicorn bat.  So his position might not matter, but if he can stick at catcher it sure would help this team.

I do agree with you that I think at the moment I like the pitchers better, but Tait has the upside to beat them in the end.  We'll know more next year.

Dman, the chances the Twins have taken on bat first catchers and keeping them at the catcher position and coaching them up to be adequate has been very good even though small sample size.  You have Jeffers and early return on Ferrer and Diaw look very good.  You now have Tait, Ferrer Diaw and Jimenez all in the low minors.  That is a lot of catching talent at 2 levels.    They have taken very little swings in the draft other than late mid round or late round flyers since 2017 other than Jeffers (2nd), Diaw (3rd), Ferrer (4th).  They seem to be very specific in what they are looking for there and who they think they can work with defensively.  Athleticism seems to be something they look for.   

[NYCTK]

6 minutes ago, Rod Carews Birthday said:

I hope you are very correct and I will be thrilled if you are.  It really doesn't help me to know that BB Trade Values has them scored like that.  Their values are all over the map and change significantly, and seemingly somewhat randomly, on a moment's notice.  I've been around long enough to see lots of deals like these not work out at all, and when you've made this many of them, it looks pretty scary in the end.  

The other piece of this that makes me cringe is that we completely (!!!!) blew up a very good bullpen in order to acquire mostly pitching, while not really addressing the biggest weakness on the team -- hitting (fielding isn't awesome either, but one thing at a time).  Yes, we did acquire a (hopefully) catcher of the future, but the reality is that most of the current players won't be on the team by the time he debuts with the Twins.  

Everyone keeps ignoring Roden. 

Before the deadline folks here were asking for major league ready position players to help the team right away in 2026, and Roden is exactly that type of player. But now that the Twins have received that type of player, no one wants to see him on the team. 

 

[NYCTK]

1 minute ago, SaberNerd said:

Yeah, but we held on to him until the last hour, so we likely weren't happy with what we got.  With this, and with him signing a 1yr/$3M contract after 3 previous years of sub-3 ERA, the league doesn't seem to be nearly as high on him as fans are.

There seems to be a lesson here about many very effective arms being readily available to stick in your bullpen. 

Almost like...teams, and more importantly their fans, shouldn't stress too much about the long term viability of their existent bullpen arms.

[bunsen82]

13 minutes ago, Rod Carews Birthday said:

I hope you are very correct and I will be thrilled if you are.  It really doesn't help me to know that BB Trade Values has them scored like that.  Their values are all over the map and change significantly, and seemingly somewhat randomly, on a moment's notice.  I've been around long enough to see lots of deals like these not work out at all, and when you've made this many of them, it looks pretty scary in the end.  

The other piece of this that makes me cringe is that we completely (!!!!) blew up a very good bullpen in order to acquire mostly pitching, while not really addressing the biggest weakness on the team -- hitting (fielding isn't awesome either, but one thing at a time).  Yes, we did acquire a (hopefully) catcher of the future, but the reality is that most of the current players won't be on the team by the time he debuts with the Twins.  

I think your hitting answers are coming in Culpepper, Gonzalez, Rodriguez and Jenkins.  That is a lot of talent with very good hit tools.  I also think Martin appears to be showing his bat skills are good enough for the MLB level.  Can Roden turn the corner and show he is more than a AAA bat??  So we still have talented starting pitching,  we can imagine a good hitting team,  that bullpen needs a lot of work.  Right now Topa and Sands have the chance to become a foundation for a future bullpen.  Who else can step up.  Funderburk??  1 of the oldies in Urena, Tonkin or Ramirez for a year or two??  Can Ohl make the Varland, Sands, Jax transition.   We are 2 arms short in my opinion.  I would feel much more comfortable we can at least keep this bullpen from falling apart at the seems if we could pick up someone like a Pressley.  

[h2oface]

11 minutes ago, NYCTK said:

Everyone keeps ignoring Roden. 

Before the deadline folks here were asking for major league ready position players to help the team right away in 2026, and Roden is exactly that type of player. But now that the Twins have received that type of player, no one wants to see him on the team. 

 

Strikeouts and balls over his head to the wall so far. Perhaps that is why. Rakes in AAA, but can’t bring it to the show. Fitting for the Twins. 

[bunsen82]

27 minutes ago, Rod Carews Birthday said:

I hope you are very correct and I will be thrilled if you are.  It really doesn't help me to know that BB Trade Values has them scored like that.  Their values are all over the map and change significantly, and seemingly somewhat randomly, on a moment's notice.  I've been around long enough to see lots of deals like these not work out at all, and when you've made this many of them, it looks pretty scary in the end.  

The other piece of this that makes me cringe is that we completely (!!!!) blew up a very good bullpen in order to acquire mostly pitching, while not really addressing the biggest weakness on the team -- hitting (fielding isn't awesome either, but one thing at a time).  Yes, we did acquire a (hopefully) catcher of the future, but the reality is that most of the current players won't be on the team by the time he debuts with the Twins.  

I am the first to tell you I question the Trade Value calculator.  However it does give us at least a benchmark to look at that is unbiased.  It shows how unrealistic us getting Painter in 1 for 1 for Duran was even though that is what most individuals is stating why we underperformed.  

We are taking big swings on Abel, Rojas, Tait, Roden, and Bradley.   Mendez and Gallagher both seem as though solid players that are being viewed as they don't quite have enough stuff.  Mendez is tied to power and too much ground balls,  Gallagher is weird that he has a 55 on MLB for Fastball,  Changeup, and Control and a 50 for Slider,  but grades out as a 45 for total.  His stuff was pretty dominant at high A. The rest are flyers   Can we find 1 high end player out of these players, and 2 solid players from the Group.  If we do we win this deadline.  I am actually more optimistic that I was even at the deadline.  

Confident - Abel

Optimistic - Tait, Rojas, Mendez, Gallagher (in that order and with the highest ceilings trending down)

Concerned - Roden, Bradley - high ceilings big question marks

[shimrod]

21 minutes ago, NYCTK said:

Before the deadline folks here were asking for major league ready position players to help the team right away in 2026, and Roden is exactly that type of player. But now that the Twins have received that type of player, no one wants to see him on the team. 

We didn't want guys who are no better than the underperformers we want to replace. So far to me Roden looks indistinguishable from Larnach. 

Nobody needs two Larnachs. 

 

[NYCTK]

2 minutes ago, h2oface said:

Strikeouts and balls over his head to the wall so far. Perhaps that is why. Rakes in AAA, but can’t bring it to the show. Fitting for the Twins. 

Fair. But I also keep hearing from people on this very website that you need to let the kids play and fail to learn and grow. 

His strikeout issues are a bit weird in the bigs because he's had very good K and BB rates in the minors, including AAA. 

As for his defense, it's significantly superior to Larnach and Wallner as well as last year's Austin Martin, but that hasn't stopped fans from insisting all year that Austin Martin should get another chance in the bigs (which I now agree with since the immediate goals of the team have changed). 

	Player A	Player B
Age	25.6	26.4
AAA K%	12.6	14.5
AAA BB%	11.9	16.4
AAA ISO	0.185	0.109
AAA OPS	0.917	0.816
Minors OPS	0.866	0.764
OF JUMP	33.2	32.0
LF OAA	2	-3
Arm Strength	88.6	87.0
Sprint Speed	27.9	28.3

 

[NYCTK]

9 minutes ago, shimrod said:

We didn't want guys who are no better than the underperformers we want to replace. So far to me Roden looks indistinguishable from Larnach. 

Nobody needs two Larnachs. 

 

Well then people had terrible expectations of what sort of caliber of MLB ready talent the Twins could receive in return for trade deadline moves. 

[bunsen82]

17 minutes ago, NYCTK said:

Well then people had terrible expectations of what sort of caliber of MLB ready talent the Twins could receive in return for trade deadline moves. 

I am sure there are still people out there who think Falvey missed on getting Painter and didn't try to get maximum value.  If Abel pans out,  it takes immense risk off of the Tait gamble.   Then Tait can be the high ceiling catching prospect gamble that he is.     Both players have extremely high ceilings.  Can we be lucky enough and hit on 1,  can we be greedy and hit on both 🤩. 

[bunsen82]

NM, wrong thread.  

[In My La Z boy]

1 hour ago, NYCTK said:

Everyone keeps ignoring Roden. 

Before the deadline folks here were asking for major league ready position players to help the team right away in 2026, and Roden is exactly that type of player. But now that the Twins have received that type of player, no one wants to see him on the team. 

 

We just have soooo many left handed hitting corner outfielders 🙃 

[miller761]

This is not really relevant to this article but I see Travis Adams listed as the starting pitcher tonight. I think the fans and the front office have see enough of this man. We have nobody else to start? Why??

[Mike Sixel]

5 minutes ago, miller761 said:

This is not really relevant to this article but I see Travis Adams listed as the starting pitcher tonight. I think the fans and the front office have see enough of this man. We have nobody else to start? Why??

Illnesses and injuries.